Pink for October
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Pink for October is an initiative started in August of 2006, in which sites all over the world change their templates to include the color pink, in support of Breast Cancer Awareness, because October is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness.
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[edit] About the initiative
Pink for October began when Matthew Oliphant created a joke website that contained a lot of pink for his coworker. The coworker made fun of it, and then Matthew decided to ask people on 9rules for a list of sites that looked great with the color pink, to show the coworker that pink looked fine on websites. It was then that he realized that October is the month for Breast Cancer Awareness, and said the following on his blog in a post and also on the forums:
- "So much pink around… maybe we should pinkify our sites for Breast Cancer Awareness Month which is October. Somewhat in the vein of Dustin’s Get Naked Day.
- That’d be sweet to get 200+ 9r member sites (and hopefully influence others) to go pink for a month. Could publicise it, get more traffic, accolades, etc. Plus raise awareness of Breast Cancer research, raise money… It could be a fun group activity that also helps a good cause.
- Would that be of interest to anyone?"
[edit] Logos and banners for support
Many logos and banners have been made for websites supporting this initiative, so they can place it on their site, and have people understand why their template is mainly pink, or containing more pink than usual. They can be viewed here).
[edit] Forum and blog templates
The following are links to sites with templates for forum systems and blogs. If you would like to make your forum or blog pink in support of Breast Cancer Awareness, look through some of these links to find a template.
- Forum Systems:
- Blogs:
[edit] Submitted stories
The official site has the option of users to post their personal stories relating to breast cancer, whether it involves them fighting the disease, living a life with a relative who has had it, having a friend who fought it, or simply any of them where the person has died. If you would like to read the stories, you can view them at the official Pink for October site.
