Big Trousers, Web, Design, Photography and new media.

After many years building e-commerce sites using platforms like OsCommerce, Shopify, WPECommerece, Magento and others, we think we finally have a solution that looks like it has all the answers. Woo Commerece. Jigoshop was a ground up build as a WordPress plugin and although it looked like it could be a great solution it was [...]

Great SEO article by Matt Gemmell that gets to the heart of my distaste for paid SEO services. We have warned clients over a number of years that SEO salesmen are selling a short term fix with a long term failure rate. Matt Gemmell places the emphasis exactly where it should be. I recently read [...]

Category navigation for news, shopping carts and general page navigation is often misunderstood or completely ignored by some content managers. Andy Rutledge posted an article ( News redux )  recently that attempted to explain how news websites have gone wrong in navigation design. Worth a look even if you don’t have any news articles on [...]

Big Trousers online ticketing and support introduced today. It is designed for all customers who register  to report problems with content management, wordpress, computer hardware and software, email, photography and general IT.  Also available are articles in the knowledge base designed to assist your and your business. The web is no longer prohibited by desktop [...]

Fantastic improvements in WordPress backend speed and a beautiful interface update.

Over the last few months we have been testing various methods of achieving an effective method of speeding up page load times for WordPress for our client sites. Along with numerous site caching plugins and file optimisation we have found a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Amazon Web Services, is the best way to achieve fast [...]

This is a demo of the sort of form you can build with conditional logic. Using our Gravity Forms plugin available to those who build and host with Big Trousers, you too can use this technology to get your clients details into a database. Use it for data collection, application forms, or even some form [...]

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 [...]

Great work by all in the Aceplus 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 WordPress site uses the new features of the Google Maps API to show training venues by map view and Street view. Check [...]

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

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 ! [...]

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. [...]