If you’re picking up my feeds in a feed reader, I’d like to invite you to click through because I’ve got myself a pretty flowery pink theme in conjunction with the Breast Cancer Awareness month :) This flowery theme was one of the pretty pink themes I’ve found (there are a lot others) and I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking it. Special thanks go to GeminiGeek for helping me add another column to the original 2-column theme.

So what is this all about?

Pink for October is an annual initiative to get people to learn more about and create and spread awareness on breast cancer. This year, Pink for October will be run by Matthew Oliphant, Tammie Lister, and Zach Inglis.

What can you do to help?

1. Spread the word. Announce the event on your blog. You could write a blog post (like this), or a little note about it. Whatever you choose to do, just go ahead and tell your readers about it.
2. Go pink. Modify your theme if you know how to, or get yourself a pretty pink theme :D If you run a website, turn your website pink. But if you don’t like pink, you could still participating by putting up a badge on your sidebar.
3. Design badges and banners. Design a couple of “Pink for October” badges or banners for other participants to use (for free) and to publicize the event. Some of the existing badges and banners can be downloaded from the official Pink for October site.
4. Design blog themes. There are a lot of bloggers (me included) who can’t even do simple designing, so if you are good at it, perhaps you could design and release a few pink themes?

Apart from switching to a new pink theme, I will also be blogging about breast cancer whenever possible, hopefully twice every week. And in case you’re interested, these are my breast cancer-related posts published last year:

1. Welcome to Cancerland
2. Breast Cancer: 22 myths you should know
3. Breast Cancer Welfare Association
4. Mammography and Ultrasound

Please let me know in the comments section if you’re going pink this month so that I could go visit you :)