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Heath & Ford now IMAP Compliant

Philip — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:02:14 +0000

Interesting job for Risk Management and Compliance firm Heath and Ford.
Mostly mobile, David Butters insisted on trialling Google service IMAP for his email. This service costs $50 per address but give full IMAP configuration for email on his domain. Sent folders and inbox are automatically synchronised on all devices.

Big Trousers can configure Google IMAP for any domain giving small business the services of a dedicated email server but with Google’s SPAM protection and “cloud” service backup and audit trail.

AcePlus consortium website goes live

Philip — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:07:59 +0000

Great work by all in the consortium. Everyone involved has taken to uploading of course details via the WordPress backend. Thanks to Kathy Jacka for keeping this group together online.

The new site uses the new features of the Google Maps API to show training venues by map view and Street view.
Check it out now at aceplus.org.au

HTML5 video for WordPress

Philip — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:33:32 +0000

We are currently testing HTML5 video for WordPress with a view to supporting the explosion of interest in the new iPad from Apple. So here goes…
Only works currently in Webkit browsers (Safari etc). Firefox support not yet available here but is possible.

Could not use HTML 5 or Flash for playback. You can download the file as MPEG4/H.264 or Ogg Theora file.

Here is the embedded Flash version.

Japara Neighbourhood House gets online

Philip — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:30:10 +0000

After a very long wait for staff changes and committee approval the new website for Japara Neighbourhood House has gone live.
Features a CMS for event calendar

Timor Adventures

Philip — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:44:19 +0000

If you are looking for a trip with a difference perhaps East Timor by motorbike is your answer. Shirley and David Carlos run Timor Adventures as a small operation a few times a year guiding small groups through East Timor by motorcycle. Their new website has just gone live and includes pictures of the areas of the country their tour covers.

Ride the Worlds Newest Nation here.

Andy Steward, Forge Designs gets off the ground

Philip — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:21:50 +0000

After a few years messing around we get a site running on WordPress for Andy Steward.
Early days but up and about is good. Check out his new site.

Fusion Digital Print Benalla go live

Philip — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:25:25 +0000

After many months of strategy and design, Fusion Digital Print of Bennalla now have a new website complete with and uploader for client file.
We wish them well and hope their new site we have provided serves them well.

Sick Australia site goes up, taste in T-Shirt design goes down.

Philip — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:35:05 +0000

We made live the new site built for Fang and Dome from Sick Australia T-Shirts.
Jean-Luc is the guy with the designs and is probably better known for his work on the comic Modern Gentleman, the movie Cannibal Suburbia, and his own movie productions.
A talented man with a warped mind..bring it on JL !

sickaustralia.com.au

Window Wonders record build attempt

Philip — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:20:21 +0000

Well after about 8 hours solid we have the rebuild for Karen at Window Wonders. Her old OsCommerce application was retired after an attack of the Trojans and a new WordPress theme installed and modified for her purpose. We shot the whole shop content on a lightbox and uploaded the product images.

Well done Karen. Take a look and let us know if we need to sleep on it and rebuild in the morning.

Trojan in Woo Themes footer code

Philip — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:42:47 +0000

Whilst trying to fix a WordPress install, I found some errant code in the footer.php for site files installed by a client. After a bit of sluething I discovered that the Premium Woo Theme used had come from a filesharing site or had come in via bit torrent and had been altered to subject the user to potentially dangerous callback connections for information carried within the site. Now at Big Trousers we have seen this sort of thing injected into shopping carts but never before delivered via a Premium WordPress theme over file sharing.

This is a word of warning to all those who attempt the ‘something for nothing’ route and again a warning to those using a bit torrent client.

My advice is to pay WooThemes for their fine WordPress Themes. The other advantage of owning a license to your Premium theme is that it comes with a lifelong upgrade so that new improved code and bug fixes are downloadable in order to improve your site functionality. Some Themes are available from Woo for free in any event but if you are reading this to find a solution this is it.