Making It Easy to Go Pink

— 29 September 2008 —

Tags: bebo design jost twitter wordpress
The Event

Because this is the third year for Pink for October, we’ve had time and luck with building up a lot of support from web designers. For 2008, it’s easy to Go Pink.

I’ve said before that Pink for October should have a low bar for entry: Turn your site pink, link to us. The latter is easy, but I get a lot of questions about the former. “How much pink is enough?”

As I said previously, I just changed some of the text on my personal site pink and added an image in the sidebar linking here. But if you want to go further than I did, this post is for you.

Here you can find a short list of links to resources for Going Pink on your site.

Wordpress

Essential Keystrokes has cultivated 13 very nice Wordpress themes from around the web that will do the trick for Going Pink.

You can, of course, Google for pink themes, too.

Twitter

Twitter Patterns, a site offering free background designs for your Twitter page, has put together some backgrounds specifically for Pink for October.

As a side note, if you redesign your Twitter page for Going Pink, consider linking your bio to Pink for October for the next 30 days.

Bebo

There are a couple of themes (skins) for Bebo related to Pink for October…

Bebo members accounted at least a third of last years total number of sites that Went Pink.

Et al.?

Got any others? Please link them up in the comments.

20 Responses to “Making It Easy to Go Pink”

Char

29 September 2008

Thanks for including my list. I will be compiling a best of pink list again for this year. Looking forward to seeing all the pinks and supporting a great cause.

Jaffer

29 September 2008

The patterns and designs are awesome ! I’ve pinked my Twitter account already http://twitter.com/maniar

:o)

FireMom

29 September 2008

Oh, very cool. If I didn’t already have my stuff planned, I’d swipe one of those! :)

Sara

30 September 2008

These are really cool ways to Go Pink! Thanks for the great info. :)

Cathy

1 October 2008

Hi there. i am just linking you up, and saw this post. I have just posted a free wordpress theme for the month too, in fall colours & pink. And when October is over, the ribbon graphic can be removed for a simple autumn (albeit a little feminine) theme. :)

thanks for the fun & promoting this cause.

Aidan

1 October 2008

I made my blog pink. I did the same last year.

I wrote up a post about some of my favourite pink wordpress themes. There are a bunch of great pink themes out there. I even have available a plug in which I used last year that places a banner in the upper corner that says `Pink for October`and it links to this website. The Plug in is no longer available on the authors website, nor can I find it on any wordpress plugin websites.

Pat

1 October 2008

I just released a theme in honour of PinkForOctober.org. It’s a modified version of a theme I just released called PINKatic. Check it out at http://www.patdryburgh.net/blamatic/. Love to see it used!

Char

1 October 2008

Just to let you know, my site Essential Keystrokes, that you featured in the post has now gone pink, too.

cowboy biker

3 October 2008

http://www.bebo.com/CowboyB06

PROFILE SKINS AVAILABLE ON THIS PROFILE TO HELP TURN BEBO PINK AND DOUBLE LAST YEARS EFFORT…

Designer

6 October 2008

Hi,
Hipandtwendy.com offers free, premium twitter background patterns for your Twitter or Myspace, AND there are several pink patterns. Use the tag cloud in the right column to find them. I may have to do something special for the Pink for October cause!

R.P.