Go Pink in Support of Breast Cancer Awareness

Oct 01 2007

[update5] I feel like Homer Simpson: site goes up, site goes down. Site goes up, site goes down. My apologies as the code errors that some of you are experiencing are aggravating to me too.[/update5]

After much prodding, cursing (like the kind that would make pirates blush), kicking, screaming, and did I mention cursing? he sign up application is up and running. Albeit many hours later than I wanted. My apologies for the delay.

Zach and I have been pulling our hair out for the last two days bashing bugs that just shouldn’t have even been there. The biggest issue was a missing hyphen (which kept the app from running); always hard to track down something that small in a web app. But who cares… it’s working! If you notice any issues with it please leave a comment on this post. The sign up page will be our way to officially count how many sites Went Pink, though we’ll use other means to count too.

So please sign up and add your site to the list. I’ll be moderating all submissions to reduce spam so you may have to wait a bit to see your site in the list. If I am not sleeping it won’t take longer than an hour. If I am sleeping… A little longer. :)

We are doing some fun code magic and taking screen shots of all the sites that submit, so it will be easy to get a quick look via thumbnail as to what the sites look like.

My thanks to Zach for coding it. My thanks to me for finding where the missing hyphen needed to be. :)

And finally my thanks to everyone that’s Going Pink this year.

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35 Responses

Oct 01 2007

And for the record, if your site requires a login to see, the thumbnails may not show up properly or at all. Nonetheless, we appreciate your support!

Oct 01 2007

Thanks for creating this.

Oct 01 2007

Seems like you should have more breast cancer resources, informational sites, linked from your site. If there are here, they are hard to find. I did make my blog pink. Thanks for your effort.

Oct 01 2007

Hi Jocelyn,

We do have a page called Make A Difference. I’ll be adding to it as the month goes along.

Plus I’ll be posting a few times a week about other resources.

Oct 01 2007

Oh, and if anyone gets a page that says “Proxy Error” on the site submission page please refresh a couple of times. We know about the issue and are working to fix it.

Oct 01 2007

Thank you! This is a wonderful idea and service (even though my blog title is wrong in my submission). :-)

Oct 01 2007

Woo! 100 sites in 4 hours. Great!

Oct 01 2007

Is there any way to go back and edit the site information once you’ve submitted it? There was an edit link when I first submitted, but it is no longer available.

Also, I’m a little unclear on the 1-5 star ranking. Is there a reason for having it? If not, is there a way to remove it? I personally don’t like the idea of judging other sites that are participating.

Oct 01 2007

Yay bugs do seem to have been squished. Looking good and signed up.

Oct 01 2007

Meghan, editing submissions is coming. As far as stars, it’s just for fun. Doesn’t mean anything in the end. Just a way for people to easily say they link a site.

Oct 01 2007

Nice job. It is a good thing you made a system with over 100 submission in 4 hours :)

Oct 01 2007

Sam

Well done Matthew!, keep up the good work. :)

Oct 01 2007

Matthew - Glad to be Pink For October along with you and all these other great sites. We really hope with all of the PR we do this month that we are able to bring awareness to a subject that affects so many of us!
On a side note, my site doesn’t require passwords yet my thumbnail does not show up.

Oct 01 2007

Jennifer. That’s one of the bugs we are working on. I’ll rerun the thumbnail generation n sites missing the image.

Once technology stops trying to kill me. :)

Oct 01 2007

Matthew - That’s appreciated! We run several websites and technology always beats us!

Oct 01 2007

Sorry! I got a proxy error when I tried to sign up and I thought it hadn’t worked, so I tried again, but I got that my username and email were taken by someone, so I tried to login and got a proxy error…
Don’t know what that is.

Oct 01 2007

This is wonderful. I am still working on getting that button image to display, but I’m already pink! Thank you from a 2-time survivor for helping to spread the word!

Oct 01 2007

I signed up earlier today. The site looks great!

Oct 01 2007

I couldn’t get you sign up to work, but I went pink.

Oct 01 2007

My site is all pretty in pink, just can’t get to the sign up page at the moment, will have to check back later.

Oct 02 2007

Not sure if the signups are down right now but I’m getting an error when I visit the signup page? “We’re sorry, but something went wrong. We’ve been notified about this issue and we’ll take a look at it shortly.”

Oct 02 2007

reverie

Great effort on the site! Personally, I’m not liking the ’stars’ thing even though it’s just for fun. I agree that there’s really no purpose to judge participating sites.

Oct 02 2007

Um, your sign up form still isn’t working. I just keep getting a “something went wrong message” Any idea when it’s coming back up online? Either way, I’m already pink. ^_^

I think the site looks awesome by the way. Great job!

Oct 02 2007

Hi Matt,

As people are saying above, the signup page isn’t working. Could you add http://tammersaleh.com when it starts up again (or just send me an email)?

Thanks,
Tammer

Oct 02 2007

Hey Tammer.

I approved 2 sites while you were leaving your comment. Try again, please?

Oct 02 2007

I was going to send you an email to tell you that it’s already October 2nd here in Malaysia, LOL.

Oct 02 2007

I signed up with no problems. Thanks for adding me.

Oct 02 2007

Hi Matthew,

The signup sheet isn’t working again. When you have a chance could you please add www.electricsistahood.com to the listing as we are glad to show our support again this year.

Thanks,
NinJaSistah - Editor In Chief,Layout Specialist
ElectricSistaHood.com

Oct 02 2007

AJ

trying to sign up, not working. I did use a badge on my page, and changed it to pink!
Thanks!!

Oct 02 2007

Your list still isn’t working. I’m still getting this message: “We’re sorry, but something went wrong. We’ve been notified about this issue and we’ll take a look at it shortly.”

I’ve tried to get to the list page using the latest Firefox and IE browsers and it’s still a no go. Can you just add me manually please? My information will be the same as what I’m using to comment with.

Oct 02 2007

Hi! I think that this is a brilliant idea.
I’ve also been getting an error message for the signup page, the same as Joana above…

Oct 02 2007

I, too, am getting an error message when trying to view the updated list.

By the way, I made a pink ribbon. It’s simple, but cute. You are welcome to use/share.

Oct 02 2007

Aha! It works now! ^_^ I’ve signed up now.

Oct 02 2007

I am getting a cold. Figures. :)

Sign up seems to be working. Screen shots are hosed for now. I need some sleep and if you sign up between 10pm Eastern and 8am Eastern tomorrow it may take a while for your site to be moderated.

Rest assured, if you get the confirmation message that we got your site, we got it.

Oct 03 2007

Err.. Is it possible to have those blogs/sites categorized alphabetically or something? From what I see, it is very difficult to resume visiting those blogs if you stopped somewhere.

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