Yay!
Penny has made a new graphic for the carnival widget!
This makes me irrationally happy. Including my impromptu creation, we now have two:
To add it to your sidebar, you can follow the directions at the blog carnival site, though it will include both the links to future carnival sites and some rather ugly adverts. Alternatively, you can add just the image to your sidebar, with a rollover link to the widget on the carnival site. That's not as direct, but specific directions on how to do that can be found here. You could also more actively manage the sidebar image to change the rollover link for each carnival date, aiming people to the hosting blog. I'm sure there's an easier way to do this still, but I'm not savvy enough to know it.
I hope some other people play around and make more carnival images. Meanwhile, I'm using the newest one, and I've made it point straight to Leila Monaghan's blog HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities, which will host the next disability blog carnival on March 8.
Visual description of newest carnival icon: It's a color drawing of an old man from perhaps the 19th century. He's in profile, wearing a brown coat and knicker pants. His right leg is amputated below the knee, and replaced with a wooden peg. The other leg has a bandage on it and he is using a cane. The words "Disability Blog Carnival" are superimposed over his middle section.
For a visual description of the icon I made a couple weeks ago, check the bottom of this post.
4 comments:
Looks good.
We are not disabled we are disAbled.
I LOVE pirates!!! I'm doing a little happy-crip dance in my head right now after seeing that. I am definitely adding it to my sidebar as soon as I figure out how.
Remember:
You can't spell pirate without IRATE!!!
Ooh, glad it's a hit--I made it last weekend. The image is from an 1803 etching by Robert Dighton, depicting Brook Watson (1735-1807), an English merchant and politician who lost his lower right leg to a shark attack in his youth (while swimming off the coast of Havana, Cuba, in 1749).
http://www.nga.gov/kids/watson/story5.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_Watson
I join Blue in hoping others will try their hand at making a Disability Blog Carnival logo--it would be fun to have a whole collection to choose from.
Penny, I love it! And I hope others will try to make one too, especially if they have ideas that can somehow visually include less visible disabilities, or just use the text as some sort of logo. I admit that my mind goes completely blank when I try to think of what image might represent mental disabilities, for example. And there's surely someone who has a clever idea or two.
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