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.
Turn yourself pink
I always enjoy seeing the different variations on ‘pink’ that people turn their sites and I’d love to hear in the comments if any of you are going pink this year. It’s a great cause that needs to have more focus and it’s a great way of not only refreshing your blog design but showing support. Even if you don’t turn your site pink there are a range of other ways on the Pink for October site you can join in by donating, adding a button to your site or even contributing an article.
Pink marks a change in branding
I’m still working out a few kinks around here but have the first stage up of my complete re-branding of both this blog and also Logical Binary (only one page currently more coming over the next week). I’m going to write a post once the dust and prodding has settled on both sites about why I’ve chosen this direction and the process I went through. The main catalyst though was to get a consistent branding across both this blog and my company site and bring the blog into a more active element of Logical Binary rather than having them as separate entities. I hope you like the new direction. Espresso the Diary of a website tumblr blog has also had a redesign and is still a good place to get a usually daily shot of posting.
Farewell woofbarkwag
As part of all these changes I’m also stopping posting on Woofbarkwag. Whilst it’s been great running that blog for a few years now the time has come to focus what oddly little time I seem to have lately onto this blog and some other new things and I’m afraid that means Woofbarkwag is a bit of a casualty of that in being closed down. I’m going to leave it up and do a closing down post soon but it’s already left 9rules and apart from my last post there won’t see anymore updates. Whilst shutting down a site is not always a good thing this time I think it is as I simply wasn’t doing it justice and it was distracting from updating other sites. I’m really happy about the choice I’ve made and look to the future with this blog.
I’m tryin to come up with my pink theme but so far I got nothin. xD Your’s looks awesome tho.
Thanks for the compliment, I hope you come up with one if nothing else just make a pink header – it’s not about how much you go pink just doing something.