The now annual pink for october announcement post

As many of you will know I was part of Pink for October last year both as a participant and designer of the site. The pinkness that is this event during breast cancer awareness month, was started by Matthew Oliphant and last year a whole host of sites turned pink to raise awareness. When Matt asked me this year if I’d like to get involved I didn’t have to think twice. I’ve been madly busy but he’s been patient and the new design should be out really soon. Along with this I plan on releasing a variant of the site’s design as a word press theme.

If you didn’t get swept up by the events of last October, it’s basically all about turning your site pink in as much or little as you want. Some people just change their backgrounds or add a badge, others go whole hog with a total redesign. Last year saw some amazing sites and some great themes released, it proved the point that pink was a colour that could work well on any site and also that a group of people could raise awareness of something by doing something as simple as changing the colour of their site. There was an insane number of people and the logging of people who had signed up had to stop at 500. This year though thanks to Zach Inglis coming on board there is an automated system which means everyone who goes pink gets a mention on the site.

As many of you may have noticed I’ve been slower than usual theme and blog wise. I’ve briefly mentioned before some health issues and having a lot of work on. One of these health issues involved a cancer scare, I was lucky and although I do have some illnesses which turned up it was not cancer. As a result, this years Pink for October has a bit more of a personal motivation to me (there was already a lot of motivation for me as I think it’s a very important cause and a great event). I will be sorting a new or nearly new theme out for this site also just for October – it will probably be loosely based on the theme I will be releasing and if you know me it will be tweaked.

I encourage everyone to go and check the site out and once registration is there get your pinkness on. There are many other ways you can get involved. You could release a pink theme for a blogging system, could make a pink badge, there is a whole long list of things you can do over at the site. At the moment unconfirmed but possibly there will also be an auction part to the site where people can offer there services for donations to breast cancer awareness. So, what are you waiting for? It’s only a few weeks to go and let the pinkness begin ;) Let’s turn the web a brighter shade for a month and raise awareness for this important issue for men and women. This year you can also follow the activities through the twitter p4o stream.