Hair Stylist website planning

Themeforest - cheap Wordpress design themes that can be applied to a wordpress site, only cost about $30 rather than £100s on paying a designer.

Retail
Site design templates - by highest "sales" rather than most popular
http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/retail?sort_by=sales_count&categories=wordpress%2Fretail&page=1

Design
Templates - for creatives (by highest "sales)
http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/creative
Flavors.me examples for Hair stylists
Seems to be mainly designers & musicians using this format. Few seem to have much on there, other than have a page that gives access everything in one place. You still need Tumblr, Wordpress, Blogger, Posterous or TypePad to write content.

Best Examples

http://www.whiskeydivine.com/#_
Clear about info
Nice design
Map
Booking enquiry form
Missing prices




http://www.permanentmakeupbymojee.com/#16b/custom_map - Don't like the design of the transparent overlay, but good information grouping

Poor Examples
http://learnourtrade.com/ - no info, but a map & form
http://signaturesxm.com/ - No prices, testimonials or map
http://www.venomstyles.com/Venomstyles/Price_List.html - 3 pages/ boring
http://flavors.me/sejour - little information
http://jodipleasant.com/#dfd/flickr - no prices or info other than photos of work
http://flavors.me/robertoguerra# - links to Twitter, vimeo etc. But no info on how or why to use him

Picture frame arrangement

I love a mix of picture frames up stairs & on large wall spaces. Here are some nice arrangements I like.

This one was at the Tate gallery:

Having frames and mount board all one colour is key to them looking smart. Also, having a large mount/border makes the image more striking.

The arrangement here is one step past what I'd do, but i like the 3 in the verticall line

I like - one line to be in relation to the frame next to it. e.g. far left frame - the top of the one to the right - are both aligned. Then the bottom of the two on the left are aligned.
You need to have all the frames to start to plan that though.

http://www.4x90.com/ is a great site for buying frames in bulk. Nielson frames are really nice quality, but expensive - if you're buying 40 to go all the way up the stairs.
Black ones are easier to get away with cheap ones, some silver ones I bought were too shiny.
www.4x90.com/products.php/Nielsen-Frames-77

London to Brighton cycle route

The London to Brighton cycle ride is great, but there are lots of junctions & turns... that can make navigating complex. I mapped it out on the OS maps in advance, but got a small note pad that would fit in my pocket.
These were the key roads, crossings, signposts & roads to follow...

• A217 to Tooting Broadway
• Rgt on A24 to Colliers wood
• Lft - Longley Road - Tooting
• Rgt @ Tooting station
• A217 to Mitcham
• Round one way system
• A236 to mitcham Common (Carshalton Road)
• Rgt - Before Hackbridget
• Hackbridge Road - Nightingale
• B277 - past Carshalton Station
• Rgt (Pound Street)
• B278 - To Carshalton Beeches, past station
• B278 - To Little Woodcote
• Rgt - Rectory @ Woodmansterne
• B278 - to Chipstead
• Rgt - under railway
• How Lane - Chipstead Golf course
• Rgt - Markedge Lane
• Under M25
• Rgt - Gatton Bottom
• Lft - Rocky Lane
• Across A23 - lft + Rgt
• Across / under railway (Ormside Way)
• Lft Southcote Road
• Rgt - Nutfield Marsh
• Over A25
• Cooper's Hill Road (turns into) Prince of Wales Raod
• * Past Dog & Duck pub
• Daysel Hill
• Rookery Hill
• Chapel Road
• Reham Road - to Small Field
• Rgt - B2037 - Effingham Road
• Rgt - B2028 (W. Park Road)
• Over roundabout
• B2028 - Turners Hill Road
• Crawley Down
• Over cross road @ The Crown @ Turners hill
• B2028 - Selsfield Road
• Rgt @ Selsfield Common
• B2028 To ARDINGLY
• Rgt fork onto Lindfield Road
• B2028 to Lindfield
• Lft - B2111 - Lewes Road
• B2111 toward Haywards heath
• Rgt @ A272 - then immediate left into Slugwash Lane - to Wivelsfield
• Lft @ crossroads - onto Green Road
• Rgt - before The Cock Inn @ Wivelsfield county school
• Hundered Acre Land
• Rgt - Middleton Common Lane
• Rgt - towards B2112
• Lft @ roundabout - on B2112
• B2112 to Ditchling - after bear left
• Ditchling Beacon Road
• Under A27
• Past London Road station

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New route I found on Cycle-Route from Croydon station to Brighton, looks simpler that the traditional London to brighton & avoids the nasty bit of getting out of London




http://www.cycle-route.com/routes/East_Croydon_to_Brighton-Cycle-Route-106.html

Greeting and christmas card making

I've been making greeting and christmas cards for the last 18 years. I've refined my buying & production quality & use the following
Craft Creations - http://www.craftcreations.com/ - for my card & envelopes.

They're great, you can get the card cut into A4 or A5 for cards.
The best card is the Vanguard range - http://bit.ly/onLVOB

The brown Kraft envelopes http://bit.ly/otfNnJ are also great.

Great 70km cycle route loop - SW18 to Box Hill

Last weekend I tried a great new cycle route. We took the basis of the Olympic route & looped back to town.
Olympic route is: http://bit.ly/owq9EK

• Richmond Park & out of Kingston Gate, turn right & head to Kingston bridge
• Left down A308 to Hampton court, over the bridge
• 2nd right on B3379 - Esher Road
• Rigth after Esher station
• A307 Portsmouth road towars Esher, Past Epsom racecourse
• Left - onto A244, claremont road
• Over A3
• Past Oxshott rail station (warren Lane)
• @ M25 - go onto B2430 Kingston Road
• Right @ roundabout onto A245 Towards Leatherhead
• Round Leatherhead - left, right, left to B2122 & then B2450 towards Box Hill
• South on A24
• Left onto Old London Road
• @ Box hill cafe, go left up hill to Zig Zag Road - up Box hill

On way back

• Straight up hill & keep going
• Head for A217 all the way into town see this route on http://www.cycle-route.com/ - http://bit.ly/qZ3Xsy