Salsa Scoop

What are cookies?

Cookies are usually a very, very small amount of information (a 200-300 character text file) that ends up being stored on the user's computer. That then tells the web site's servers:

"Yo! I've been here before! customize me properly!"

This information can only be stored if you provide it on a page and have your browser setting set to allow cookie storage.

What's are cookies made of?

These cookies unfortunately do not include oatmeal nor chocolate chips, but consist of:

• a cookie unique ID
• a name
• an expiration date

Are there different types of cookies?

There are two different types of cookies, specifically in terms of time until expiration, which are set by our web servers:

• "Session" Cookies will expire after you leave the website.
• "Permanent" Cookies are retained every time you visit the website (unless you remove the cookie).

These are NOT active programs and cannot "spy" on your computer.

These cookies can also be deleted/removed through your individual browser settings.

Examples of ... 

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12:52 PM Mar 03, 2011 - 1 comments permalink

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Adding a drop-down list of designation options to Salsa donation pages

Salsa's donation pages have a built-in Designation Code option that will provide an open-ended text box allowing donors to designate a program or campaign to support.

While a write-in text box is useful for many, others may want to provide a pre-set list of campaigns from which donors can choose. 

This can be accomplished by pasting some custom HTML in the "Pre-Donation Text" area of a donation page (which is located in the "Optional Text" tab of a donation page workflow).

 

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10:25 AM Mar 01, 2011 - 1 comments permalink

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SXSW and NTC and Salsa (oh my!)

If it's March, then it's conference season and for Salsa Labs that means two big ones: Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) and SXSW.

SXSW is the annual Austin meetup featuring technology enthusiasts, nonprofits, start ups, musicians, filmmakers, and more.  We're excited to be a part of it this year with a full slate of events including a happy hour, a panel, a training and a taco breakfast to compliment our brand new Austin office. The full listing of events can be found here.

At NTC, we're joining Care2 and the RAD campaign to host a karaoke fundraiser at Public Bar on March 17.  Check out the official Facebook event page, for more details.

 

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03:35 PM Feb 28, 2011 - 3 comments permalink

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Friday Fiesta: template security, sharing thoughts, and
thinking positively

Happy Friday!

This week, I was pretty proud of April for making this list. I was less proud of Wisconsin at times, but my coworkers are doing their best to remind me to think positive.

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We updated div tags on donation pages as part of our release this week.

There's a great list of improvements from this recent release, and we'd like to hear from you about what you'd like to see next.

If you have any thoughts on the Salsa Market, we'd like to read those as well.

Thanks to Jim for a Read more...

04:35 PM Feb 25, 2011 - 2 comments permalink

Today we released Salsa 1.8.3, a clean-up release that fixes 25 issues that were frustrating both us and you, our users. Read the details here, as well as a call to arms after the jump.

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05:30 PM Feb 24, 2011 - 0 comments permalink