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Pink for October

I’m a little late for this one, but I’ve now managed to go Pink for October in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness month. At the moment, NBCM is a US based thing, although a pink month was done by Cancer Research UK a while ago. Anyway, the point is, breast cancer awareness shouldn’t be limited by country.

If you don’t know much about breast cancer, please take this opportunity to go and read a little about it, and consider a small donation.

The normal green service will be resumed in November. Although, I am quite liking the pink. Maybe a touch of brown as well…

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I also quite like the pink, I think I would have gone for a tad brighter shade though. This looks more like purple to me! :)

You should make some different colorschemes that you switch between ;)

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Fredrik W?rnsberg
Sun 8th Oct 2006
at 11:39 am

Although for completeness sake, shouldn’t you do the favicon as well ;)

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Dio
Sun 8th Oct 2006
at 11:45 am

Ooops - forgot about the favicon. Dump you cache and refresh - should be all lovely and pink now!

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Mark Boulton
Sun 8th Oct 2006
at 11:55 am

I dig the pink too, nicely done. One thing left is your gravatar..

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Lode
Sun 8th Oct 2006
at 12:54 pm

I really like the way the pink is done on here. Nice way to raise some awareness.

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David Hemphill
Sun 8th Oct 2006
at 4:21 pm

While I am 110% behind raising brest cancer awareness I am, as a man aware that more of us are diagnosed with prostate cancer a year than women are of breast cancer. However there is very little awareness of this and even less funding for prostate cancer research.

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Andrew
Sun 8th Oct 2006
at 4:53 pm

I’ve pinked as well. I think it’s a great way to raise awareness. I really dig the subtle changes, Mark.

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Dan Mall
Mon 9th Oct 2006
at 3:18 am

For an interesting twist on the topic of the “pinking” of breast cancer awareness, please see the link on my website, http://www.honestmedicine.com, to the article “Welcome to Cancerland: A Mammogram Leads to a Cult of Pink Kitsch” by Barbara Ehrenreich.

This article will give you a different perspective on the topic!

Sincerely,
Julia Schopick
http://www.honestmedicine.com

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Julia Schopick
Mon 9th Oct 2006
at 3:36 am

Hi Mark

Lovely idea to raise awareness mate, it also demonstates the flexibility of CSS.

Have you thought about creating a Just Giving account to obtain donations? If you set one up I’d only be too willing to contribute.

It seemed to work quite well for my company when we arranged a coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Research
http://www.justgiving.com/coffeemorning

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Graham Sanders
Tue 10th Oct 2006
at 7:54 am

This is a great idea Mark!  My new site (currently in development) is going to be white + color, and so I may do something similiar in the future too (have Red version for World Aids day perhaps?)

I also find it interesting how the black bar at the top gives the site a whole new feel (in addition to the colour altereation - I like it!)

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Paul
Tue 10th Oct 2006
at 8:09 pm

Nice pink. Mark, you’ve finally flickred - I look forward to more tales of supermarket arguments :)

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Chris
Wed 11th Oct 2006
at 9:54 am

Thanks Chris. Yep, finally flickred although my account has currently been hijacked by the missus and photos of her flower design course. I’ll try and documentmy next supermarket argument to the fullest!

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Mark Boulton
Wed 11th Oct 2006
at 11:12 am

I’ve got some of those “in the pink” photo from PGA somewhere .. hmmm

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Gabs
Wed 11th Oct 2006
at 1:20 pm

Wow! I love the idea and this is for a good cause. I’m going pink too!

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Patrick Bouchard
Thu 12th Oct 2006
at 12:32 am

Love the pink for October make over, its inspiring me to do my websites, although I’ve probably left it a little late, plus I’m scared I mike like it too much and have to redo by business cards :)

Lee

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Lee Wilson
Thu 12th Oct 2006
at 7:46 pm

Nice tint for pink. Actually, just to mention, that we have this same “Breast Cancer Campaign” thing going on Finland. In case you did’nt know where Finland is it’s Between Sweden and Russia, also Nokia was founded in this little peace of land. ;)

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tonza
Sun 15th Oct 2006
at 12:11 pm

Breast cancer is so dangerous. Awareness and periodical preventive medical checkup are very important. Good idea from you to support the pink for october.

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Thorsten
Wed 18th Oct 2006
at 1:13 am

Pink work really well..

Breast cancer awareness! Great thing to support

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philips
Sat 21st Oct 2006
at 1:57 pm

hee, I also went pink a little late - never mind - spread the word!

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Han
Thu 26th Oct 2006
at 9:19 pm

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