By Lori P
For you weekend readers, you caught me in the act of upgrading our fundraising widget (seen in the right sidebar). We felt a direct link to PayPal was best, avoiding the second page that included odd “other cancer” ads. And wouldn’t the official PayPal logo be lovely?
Ahem.
The new and improved donation widget went visible on roughly half the visiting computers. And that’s after about eight hours of trying. And emailing for help. And staring bleary-eyed at code that read like the warning label of most pharmaceuticals, but in Chinese. And trying again.
Welcome back to our “old is new” widget that actually works. If you wish to donate, it’s a three step process:
- Click the “donate” button to the right. It will take you to a second page.
- Fill in the amount you wish to contribute in the empty box and click “donate” again. This will take you to your PayPal account. I super promise!
- Complete donation through PayPal.
(Three lovely readers contributed over the weekend and we did indeed receive them. Rest assured and thank you!)
If you need me, I’ll be doing my own impression of Anna, post craniotomy back in September. ”Nurse!!”
Thanks for all your hard work Lori!
For those who don’t have a Paypal account, it will allow you to use your credit card. Do you know if there a fee deducted for doing that?
Hey Liz! My pleasure, but I sure don’t speak “code,” so my eyes were crossing by the time I gave up.
If the transaction goes through Paypal, pretty sure the fee applies, but it comes out on our end, not the person donating. We chose Paypal because it charges the lowest fee of all for a fundraising account (2.9% compared to some up to 7%).
Thanks Lori and Eden. I was thinking the fee probably comes out on your end. So those of us who are just a tad bit OCD could add a bit to our nice round number contribution, so it comes out at our end.
Just a thought. Every little bit helps!
Yes. Paypal allows you to use either a credit card (earn those frequent flyer miles!) or a checking account. Lori explained the fee above.
Thank you for all your work on this and the generosity of everyone all around.
I appreciate the expression on my face in the picture above. A combination of a Fentanyl drip and extreme dislike of of the gauze cap on my head. I recently saw a movie about a patient who undergoes a spinal surgery to remove a tumor. I was amazed at his rapid recovery. Either he skipped the ICU and went straight to “chipper” or I needed stronger meds in my IV…
“Straight to chipper.” HHAAA!!! The point of this post was NOT for thanks, but rather to explain some of the oddities that showed up this weekend. Just didn’t want folks to panic. I’d do it again and again if it would help. But really, I think all html coding should come with some sort of restorative drip, don’t ya think? =)
You all are awesome. I get excited checking in to see how things are going on the widget. Hugs to Anna!
Trying to guage how successful a movie would be if it showed the full impact of any surgery, on a scale of say, Smash Hit to Complete Flop…
Maybe it’s my age, but I’m glad to see the retro widget – part of my current education was adding ” widget” to my vocabulary. Now to find another opportunity to use the word. (“Heeeeere widget, widget, widget!”…)
Hollywood rarely does cancer right. Although Shirley Maclaine’s exchange with the oncology nurse in “Terms of Endearment” might be the best freak-out ever. Much as I’d like to employ my hereditary theatrics, Dr. He’s staff seems far too nice to engender such hysteria. Darn.
Donated partially up the wazoo. Hit me up again next month, cause I totally will do monthly. MADE OF MONEY! I HAZ A FLAVOR!