The Zee Carnival 2007, boasted huges crowds, Bollywood stars, delicious food, fashion catwalk, asian music stars and even its very own Shisha Lounge! In association with TheShishaShop.com, Shisha Nites proved to be so popular that there were waiting times of up to 2 hours! With exquisite Shisha flavours mixed by our very own Resident Mixer, Shisha lovers enjoyed themselves in a trully Egyptian style setting with cushions, luxiourious drapes, extravagant music and even some in house entertainment!

More news to follow as well as website update, pictures and of course the winner of the Zee Carnival Prize Draw so stay tuned!!We are currently taking bookings for this week so please book early! For more information or to reserve your place call Jamal on 07956 167387 or send us an email at info@shishanites.com.

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Celebrity Big Brother winner and Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty and TheShishaShop.com will be the star attractions at the huge three-day lifestyle exhibition the ‘Zee Carnival 2007’ in London on the 16th, 17th and 18th of February.

With over 30,000 spectators expected over three days, The Zee Carnival 2007 will take place at the Grand Hall in Olympia, London and bring the best of Bollywood stars, pulsating music, lifestyle, fashion and of course, TheShishaShop.com!

Shilpa Shetty, currently the most talked about Bollywood celebrity in the UK after her win in ‘Big Brother’ will be joined by other Bollywood stars including Priyanka Chopra (Don and Salaame Ishq), Esha Deol and Music director Himesh Reshammiya.

Also in attendance will be Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi who will offer cricket fans an opportunity to learn some techniques from him and Zee TV soap stars including Ram Kapoor, Prachi Desai, Sharad Kelkar and others will be present at the carnival.

Just like the Shilpa Shetty, the Bubble Doctor, Hubble Master, the Resident Mixer and the rest of the gang will be available for interviews and will be mingling with all Shisha fans for photo opportunities and autographs.

So whatever you do, make sure you come over, say hello and smoke some Shisha with us at TheShishaShop.com (located right at the heart of the action)!

Whatever You’re Into, Get Into Shisha!

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ShishaNites.com has required a new website for a while now, one that incorporates the look and feel of TheShishaShop.com’s site (as it is afterall a spin-off). To make the site easy to update however, it was decided that a simple CMS should be used to easily control the content (using Pages) and blog format for the Latest News section.

With the introduction of the latest version of WordPress (2.1), it is now possible to set any page as the homepage, not to mention 550 bug fixes, it qualifys as the selected package.

So work was underway to work on a new template system. Luckily, the Wordpress template site features a huge amount of freely downloadable pre-made templates. A few where chosen that closly matched the 3 column system required and the editing process had begun.

It was clear at this point however that WordPress uses CSS extensively to layout the site. This has its advantages as well as its disadvantages, especially as the rest of the portal is based around tables, keeping consistency may cause a slight problem… Once this section is complete, it may lead for the rest of the portal to become completely CSS based allowing fo more lighter code, however thats something to persist in in the future.

But what is life without problems? First CSS issue came up within the footerwrap tag, defineing a fixed height was proving to be very difficult within a cross browser environment, i.e. IE (pun intended). Luckily, Google came to the rescue with a link to the Prop-Clear: CSS min-height hack

In normal use, the prop will extend beyond the bottom of the box because floated elements are partially removed from the flow of the document. I say “partially” because there is still a way we can use the floated element to determine how high the enclosing element should be. The way is to add the next part of this hack: something for our prop to push down on. We need the overflow:hidden; style since MSIE refuses to automatically make div tags less than 1em high when in Standards Compatible mode.

View the CSS code block here

Lets see if we bump into any more CSS problems anytime soon, its still early in the theming process

In a TheShishShop.com first, we attempted to create a small promotional video starring a new superstar in the making: Big Momma! It took a few takes, but its almost ready for its debut now! Since we are it, we would like to annouce our very own YouTube account available here. Now remember, we need your comments and appraisals and of course video’s of you guys and girls with all your Shisha’s!

Since we are at it, we’d also like to announce our Myspace site at: myspace.com/theshishashop! At this stage, it’s still very new, so if you already are a myspace user, please do add us as your friends! If any one has any tips or tricks on using myspace feel free to drop us an email!

This week we met the Dark Lord Sauron who had a new Ring of Power, Tamara, Mya & Jay from Manchester, the lovely Katherine and Doris, Begona, who is here from Barcelona, Spain (Hola, Cómo estás? Hasta pronto!) and of course Sarah, July and Big Momma!

We hope you thoroughly enjoy your Shisha experience!

Just a quick reminder, we have a guide on How to Setup Your Shisha available so if you do get stuck, follow the guide or contact us. Remember, if your in one of these pictures and would like a copy of the original image, or have a question regarding Shisha, email us at info@theshishashop.com or use the contact form here. Hope to see you guys again real soon!

Link to us in emails, blogs, podcast and all other forms of communication! Rate us on YouTube and Join us on myspace!

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A big hello to all the people that we met today at the Greenwich Market on Sunday! Hopefully everyone had a great time and others discovered what Shisha really is! Very soon, we will have a page listing the nations of citizens who visit us! This week we met our first Norwegians, Sri Lankan, Malaysian, Swedes and a very passionate South African!

The cool people we met including Hayman, a veteran Shisha Smoker of 6 years after she received a Shisha pipe for her birthday, the SHisha Smoke breathing Scandinavian dragon (see pic below), a South African lady who was ‘Stunned’ by how good our Greenwich flavoured cocktail (Aniseed/Mint) tasted; a Swede whose mortal enemy is Aniseed! The Jingle ‘All I need is a Shisha in my life’ Brothers.Also shouts out to Jane, an American from Cyprus who worked in a Shisha Lounge (Full of tips which we hope will be shared!), an Australian duo that are out back packing! The lovely Selina, who has a wonderful smile, one of our neighbours Emma!

A big hello to the fun loving duo of Audgy and Mel who asked us to shout theirs names out in the market and to call them (almost got in trouble for that!), once we had the Banana flavour Shisha ready! We hope you enjoy the Shisha Pipe and tell all your friends about us!

Finally, a big thank you goes out to the couple from York, we applaud you for the Snakes, they tasted wonderful after we broke our fast!

We hope you thoroughly enjoy your Shisha experience!

Pictures: TheShishaShop.com

TheShishaShop.com enjoyed an interesting experience this week meeting people from all walks of life! We knew you special guys were out there and this week we had the pleasure of meeting 3 such souls!

First up is Wilma, a cool Singaporean/Thai girl who was full of ideas and friendly tips and information for other customers, we even took a back seat as she chilled with the banana flavour Shisha! Wilma’s tip of the day is to try smoking mint flavoured Shisha with Coca-Cola…that’s right, with Coca-Cola instead of water! Naturally this was an experiment that was conducted later on that night (watch out for the review soon!).

We also met an Egyptian/Turkish couple who gave us with lots of ideas on the day! Their tip was the holes setup in the foil. Instead of the usual holes all over the top, try making five holes to look like 5 on a dice on one side. Next make another hole at the opposite end of the foil. Now place the coal tab over the five holes to produce more volume smoke and allow the flavour to burn more slowly.

As always, we meet a wide range of people including a group of Singaporean’s (Did you know that chewing gum in Singapore is against the law? HOWEVER, we were told that thanks to the Americans, you can actually chew Nicorette gum…), a beautiful Iranian girl who had never smoked Shisha before visiting us! Also a group of friends who had found Shisha at a recent holiday in Ibiza and the lovely Louise who simply loved us! Make sure your bring Ayesha next time!

We hope you thoroughly enjoy your Shisha experience!

Just a quick reminder, we have a guide on How to Setup Your Shisha available so if you do get stuck, follow the guide or contact us. This week, we have LOADS of pics so bear with us as the page loads! Remember, if your in one of these pictures and would like a copy of the original image, or have a question regarding Shisha, email us at info@theshishashop.com or use the contact form here. Hope to see you guys again real soon!

TheShishaShop.com returned to the Greenwich market this week to spread our word. As everyone is aware, we are currently participating in the holy month of Ramadan, with only two weeks ago. We have served many people from many nations from all around the world, but surprisingly, we had not encountered anyone from the Netherlands, not until this week anyway! A mother and daughter from Holland, our first brush with our Dutch compatriots, happily took home a brand new Pharaoh Shisha Pipe! We hope you thoroughly enjoy your Shisha experience!

Just a quick reminder, we have a guide on How to Setup Your Shisha available so if you do get stuck, follow the guide or contact us. Pics have now been uploaded, remember, if your in one of these pictures and would like a copy of the original image, or have a question regarding Shisha, email us at info@theshishashop.com or use the contact form here. Hope to see you guys again real soon!

Remember, we still want to see all your pictures and images of you enjoying yourselves with your Shisha Pipes! Spread the word, tell all your friends and family about us! Link to us in emails, blogs, podcast and all other forms of communication!

TheShishaShop.com enters the Greenwich market for the very first time. However because of unusually busy activity from other traders, TheShishaShop.com is asked to setup outside to compete against the elements! Being the brave souls that we are, we engaged to erect our stall in a battle against the rain! Alas, as courageous as we were, the rain was just too strong and we were ready to call it a day.

Then a spot of luck, although the weather had changed for the better, we were allocated a stall at the main entrance of the market so we proceeded to setup. All of a sudden, the heavens opened, there were ramblings of thunder, flashes of lightening and even hail stones! But that didn’t stop people from attending the Greenwich festival!

Just a quick reminder, we have a guide on How to Setup Your Shisha available so if you do get stuck, follow the guide or contact us. Pics have now been uploaded, remember, if your in one of these pictures and would like a copy of the original image, or have a question regarding Shisha, email us at info@theshishashop.com or use the contact form here. Hope to see you guys again real soon!

Remember, we still want to see all your pictures and images of you enjoying yourselves with your Shisha Pipes! Spread the word, tell all your friends and family about us! Link to us in emails, blogs, podcast and all other forms of communication!

Pictures + Link: http://www.theshishashop.com

On what can only be described as a beautful Summers day had a strange feeling of emptiness. The Sunday Upmarket was very quite indeed yet we still managed to educate alot of People in the practise of the Shisha.

The site has been updated to also include a contact form, if you have a general question,or a sales / wholesale / trade or even a franchise enquiry then use it to contact us. Also, just a quick reminder, we have a guide on How to Setup Your Shisha available so if you do get stuck, follow the guide or contact us. Remember, we still want to see all your pictures and images of you enjoying yourselves with your Shisha Pipes! Spread the word, tell all your friends and family about us! Link to us in emails, blogs, podcast and all other forms of communication!

Pics will be uploaded later on. Now remember, if your in one of these pictures and would like a copy of the original image, or were one of the hundreds that took photos of us or the stall, email us at info@theshishashop.com.

TheShishaShop.com has confirmed its place at this years Brick Lane Festival in association with EMEP. The big day is set for the 10th September 2006 and if its anything like last year, it will be an grand day out for all!
Here’s a press release:

“Its party time once again for the most famous street of London… After Coronation Street (probably!).

Held every second Sunday of September, the Festival is now firmly established on the London calendar of events attracting over 60,000 people who come to enjoy the rich mix of culture, history, live music, films and food.

Fast becoming recognised as the alternative to Notting Hill Carnival, the event combines the excitement and buzz of a street festival, alfresco eating, fun fair, Brick Lane’s own Chili Film Festival (debuting this year) and a relaxing outdoor music concert with local and international performers.

Add to this, the huge diversity of cultures and the vibrant neighbouring street markets the Festival always proves to be a resounding success for the whole family.”

We hope to see you all there!