Pink for October
Things will be looking a little different around here for this month, I have gone Pink for October. I missed the fun last year, but luckily found a couple of spare hours to pink-ify the site, and I am pretty happy with the result. It was always the plan to release different colour versions of the site after launch and this seems like a brilliant cause and a great excuse for a fresh lick of paint.
No doubt there are probably people who have “gone pink” for much more profound reasons than I have but if seeing the site and reading this post helps to raise awareness by just a little bit then I think it’s worth it.
Useful Links
A Word on the Implementation
You know that CSS dream? The one where you build a website once, using CSS and semantic HTML, and from that point on you can re design the website without even having to touch the HTML? Yeah, thought you might. Well, I have never experienced it but this colour swap was almost as cool as that dream, a quick colour tweak in Photoshop, a handful of new images and some find and replace in TextMate and the pink theme was ready to roll.
Ben
October 1st, 2007 at 11:12 am
Good on ya buddy!
*wonders if Andy plans to have more colour versions loaded by JS based on the time of day or time elapsed since post date. Hmm…
Patrick Haney
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I just stumbled upon your pinkified site today and I have to say it looks pretty darn good. I’ve seen some nice implementations for Pink For October, but this has to be one of the best ones yet. Nice work.
Andy Pearson
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:47 pm
@Ben & Patrick - cheers for the kind words guys!
Jack Gringo
October 6th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Good show sir, great cause and great pinks!
Joel Helin
October 19th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Hi Andy! Really like this site, and your tip on index really worked. Thank you so much!
alida
November 15th, 2007 at 1:23 am
so Andy are you also growing some facial hare for Movember??