Map Illustration

Shop in Watton - Leaflet FrontIllustrated this map for the local Chambers of Commerce in my home town. The aim was to tell people who visit the area about what was available in the high street in Watton. Many people visit the area and even stay near to the town but then go off and visit other more traditionally touristy places nearby.

The first draft of the illustrations didn’t coincide with what they wanted. So redid the map and the illustrated in the style they wanted, which is quite different from how it started. It was done in pen and ink and then computificated so that artwork could be supplied in Photoshop.

The leaflet was distributed to businesses and places to eat and stay around the area. The Chamber may have some more copies if you would like to distribute some.

Map Illustration Inner

The idea was originated by Janina Dingwall and Ben from Naked Marketing kindly agreed to write the words and do the layout.

Make WordPress site faster (part 2)

This post carries on from a previous one make wordpress site faster. In that post I did the easiest stuff to do from now on it gets slightly more difficult. At some point if your not a geek it gets to be too much hassle. I’ll let you decide when that is.

After I finished writing that post I enabled mod page speed on my site. On my hosting its a yes/no thing but there are lots of options if you can fiddle. I had to do some testing but nothing was actually broken at least as far as I’ve discovered so far.
So now I have

  • Google pagespeed tool : Page Speed Score of 86 (out of 100)
  • Yslow Overall performance score 83

Which is quite weird because Yslow hasn’t really changed where as mod page speed upped the google page speed score by 20. But yslow contains some pointers on where I’m going wrong
This page has 7 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.
This page has 3 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.
So thats what to do next……