Get your pink on

October is here and it can mean only one thing … the web is about to turn pink again. Pink for October is an event started a few years ago aimed at turning sites pink to raise awareness of breast cancer. This year Matthew Oliphant asked me to do the theme for the event’s site again and I’ve also turned Diary of a website pink as you can see.

You may have noticed a little break taken during the summer. It started as a temporary one and spread quickly to a turning off from online world as offline things took over a little. Not to delve too deep into the personal, but there were a lot of factors along with work and health that lead to a need to switch off from the community for a bit. I’ve been blessed with a lot of work recently which is not a bad thing at all but also meant this had to take priority while I gave myself some time to sort other things when not working. However, I’m getting back and the urge to do something again online is back with full gusto. I really hate having to write a sorry back now post but I guess that’s what this is really.

I’m trying to get back to some regular posting schedule and starting with the weekly roundup coming back. Summer is always a slow time online so this weekly roundup is a bit smaller than usual but there are still some good links that dropped in my feed box. So, here we go with this week’s roundup with a few from last week for good measure.

In this day and age it’s so easy to find something to grumble about with regards to customer service, that when a service you use regularly goes above and beyond it just makes your day. This week amongst the usual pile o spam was a hand written envelope from Wufoo. Now, my first thought was oh some usual company spam enclosed then. However on opening it I found a handmade card with a cute rhino sticker on the front saying thank you for using them as a service. Not only was the card handmade it also was hand written (I have trouble racking my brains to think when a company last hand wrote to me).

37 signals wrote this week ‘Web designers should do their own HTML / CSS’. This post basically follows thinking I’ve had for a long time where by you shouldn’t call yourself a web designer if you can not code HTML/ CSS. As expected there are some pretty strong for and against opinions in the comments. In the past I’ve been fairly vocal myself about my opinion on this and also experienced in my working life the frustration of making up a design from someone who doesn’t understand the web as a medium or HTML / CSS.

There is a lot of talk about the iPhone 2 which is maybe coming soon. From 3g to applications there seems a lot of debate as to what will happen. The SDK also is getting there for applications soon. With all this is mind and after having lived with my iPhone for a while, I thought I would write about what I would like to see on the iPhone.