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bkuhn
Start errors in shown state for non-Javascript.

Since the error messages have important information, and since the
Javascript code is the only "enforcer" of the minimum donation, the
errors really should be displayed by default if the browser is not
Javascript-capable. This change does that, but also toggles the state
back so that errors are not shown until needed in Javascript-capable
browsers.

I believe this still fits graceful degradation, since browsers without
Javascript and CSS were already showing the errors anyway, so now the
only real change is that everyone sees the errors by default.

It *might* make sense to not show the errors in red in non-Javascript
browsers (i.e., make the default CSS color black for the form-error-show
class, and then change it to red in the Javascript). I didn't make that
so, because it's not clear to me that's right, and we *do* want to draw
attention to the errors lest people become a supporter below the
minimum (which has happened once already -- that precipitated this
change).

I'm still annoyed that PayPal doesn't provide a "minimum but no maximum"
variable donation box of its own, which would solve this problem
outright.
                           SERVER CONFIGURATION
                           ====================

conservancy's webserver runs on a machine called
dogwood.sfconservancy.org, which is a standard Debian installation.

The following packages are installed to make Django and Apache work on a
squeeze install:

$ aptitude install python-django apache2 sqlite3 python2.5-sqlite libapache2-mod-python



                           DJANGO SETUP
                           ============

0. Make sure the Python module 'djangopw', with the global variable
   'djangoadmin_password' is somewhere importable in the default
   PYTHON_PATH.