Over the coming days, you'll probably notice some stylistic changes in your Salsa account.

Perhaps the first thing to catch your eye might be the white logo in the upper corner.

Highlighted and now to be placed in the very upper right are the three admin links that the outgoing interface had formerly positioned in the white dashboard space below.

The links do the same thing they've always done, but the tightened interface is 40 pixels shorter and should help economize your browser space.

Some organizations have the new "white album" Salsa deployed already; for others, it'll roll out over the next several days. In either case, there's nothing to worry about: it's the same great Salsa toolset.

Let us know if you have any questions about the new interface!

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The smart politics blog FiveThirtyEight has up an election-day interview with Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee executive director Michael Sargent.

As the conversation turns to technology, Sargeant calls out DLCCWeb, the innovative "website in a box" service for state legislative candidates built in Salsa just for the DLCC by Wired for Change.

538: Are you tinkering with any new technological tools or tactics in the field campaign and for voter contacting generally, and if so what?

Sargeant: It's an interesting question. We've all been taking a look from the last election on at a variety of things regarding microtargeting, and making sure we're also doing more polling and just being more aggressive as well at the doors doing GOTV.

One of the things we're very proud of is our DLCCweb program, which we're making available on our website for legislative candidates around the country using this. We have around 350 to 400 candidates around the country using this and they were in full force last election cycle in 2008.

538: So you are using it beyond these races in 2010 and beyond?

Sargeant: We first used it in the '08 races, again this year, and the program is just growing by leaps and bounds.

Pretty sweet. As the 2010 election cycle heats up in the month ahead, hundreds or thousands of Democratic legislative candidates will be rolling out professional campaign sites (not stuff like this) integrating online fundraising, unlimited blast e-mailing, events management, and an online database to track campaigns' supporters, volunteers, and donors, all for a couple bucks a day.

Be the first in your district to have it.

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The first day of November is actually 11 Brumaire by the French Revolutionary calendar, and you'll find that that calendar's convention of pairing days with animals, vegetables and minerals makes 11 Brumaire the day of Salsify, also known as "goatsbeard". (Clearly, we need a Goatsbeard installation of Salsa.)

Robespierre says Salsification cuts any online communication problem down to size.

Much like our organizing and communications platform, the plant Salsify is versatile and delicious.

All parts of the plant are edible. The greens are sweet, the root is tasty and easy to cook, and as if that weren't enough, salsify’s purple flowers are nice to look at.

What better time than the end-of-year fundraising press to Salsify yourself, with web tools that are just as tasty and easy to cook?

Don't wait around for 18 Brumaire ... Salsify today and savor a web presence with integrated email, fundraising and list-building and the best customization in the business.

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