Please excuse me, i´m very late with this post. Pink for October allready started again.
Web sites and blogs are going pink for October again. And perhaps your favourite blogs and pages too, you ask why? Well it’s to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Facts
The objective of the month long project is to increase awareness on breast cancer as well as raise funds for further research on the subject. Breast cancer is the fifth in the list of most common types of cancers in the world and the first most common for women. And breast cancer could also affect men, albeit with a lower probability. It’s the illness, which caused 1% of all deaths worldwide back in 2005.
Designers Support
Due to this, many designers have come up with various pink for October WordPress designs. Here are some of the many:
- 5thirtyone Pink October WordPress theme
- Randy Clay Design’s Pinkbird WordPress theme
- Pink Adaptations by Charity Ondriezek
- archGFX’s The Thin Line
- Geek With Style’s Pink October Theme
- Pink for October Stripes and Business by Natalie Jost
- WordPress Diva’s Pretty In Pink
- Design Adaptations’ Pink Adaptations
- Yoru from cureless.net’s Pink Beauty 2.0
- Pink for October 1 and 2 by Teresa Maree
These are some of the free pink WordPress themes released since the announcement of the event. Those who can afford to change their themes, feel free to use them as long as you comply with the designers’ specific requests and conditions of usage.
Sign Up
And when you’re done changing your theme, go to the Pink for October’s web site and sign-up to be officially part of the event. Not only do you profess your support for the project but you also get a backlink. If you don´t like to change your theme or look of your homepage, you can support this project with a logo on your blog, just visit Pink for October’s download page and be part of it.
The event was started by Matthew Oliphant of Usabilityworks.com last 2006.
Personal Note
My dad got cancer, and we know this since Xmas/06. It´s very hard for us seeing him fighting and sometimes it seems nothing helps. Over the last year he got several chemo-therapies which knocked him down - but he´s still fighting. He is so strong and sometimes we are helpless. I wished i could do more for him, for us. This year is such a blur of pain and loneliness. But my family never gives up and i´m very proud that we stay together in this terrible time.
We must support those who are affected, thats what we can do. This is what my entry here is all about. This is why I support it.
Dad i love you!