Last night we broke the 600-member mark in TuDiabetes.com. TuDiabetes now has members from the four corners of the world: we have a growing membership from Australia and New Zealand, as well as Europe, the UK, Canada and, naturally, the US.
Last night Tu Diabetes, our Social Network for People Touched by Diabetes, received a major facelift.
Andreina (my wife) spent countless hours working on alternative designs and experimenting with different fonts and palettes. The resulting banner for the site (which will be serving as the basis for any additional collateral we end up developing) can be seen above. If you click on the image to get to the site, you can see it full size and also enjoy the color palette she selected for the site, to match the colors of the banner.
The hands with the red dots you see to the right represent the hands of all the people with diabetes, coming together as part of this network, and the routine we all need to go through many times a day to test our blood sugar, by using a lancing device to get a tiny drop of blood.
I want to thank Andre for the time and dedication she put into this. I am incredibly happy with the end result and so far, the members of Tu Diabetes are enjoying it too (although they can no longer customize the header of their individual spaces as a result of having a site header in place -sorry!).
I also want to acknowledge the work of Ray Larabie, of Larabie Fonts, since one of the fonts he designed (Cuomotype) was used in the banner. Although this font, like many other fonts he offers, is free for commercial use, I encourage you to support his work by giving a voluntary donation.
He blends folk, americana, blues and a little bit of soul, even in a way that I've never encountered, magically drawing you in.
