I'm needing to revamp my whole style for Web 2.0, and have been surfing webcreme.com and sites that talk about Web 2.0 styling. Now it's come to where I need to start focusing purely on forms, and one of the biggest things I see now are that the forms must have larger fonts because we have larger monitors now, and because MS Sans Serif 8 and 9pt just won't cut it with people's eyes. I also like phpBB's metallic buttons, although I think ones with curved edges might be more user-friendly for my kinds of sites.
Please reply with links for what you think are attractive Web 2.0 web forms so that I can get an idea where to go. I want to utilize jQuery, AJAX, and PHP behind the scenes with the XHTML/CSS that draws these forms. Eventually I might want to build a form generator script that does the XHTML for me.
Making Attractive Web 2.0 Web Forms
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supermike
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Re: Making Attractive Web 2.0 Web Forms
One thing that is helping is to visit every webcreme.com listed site and click the Contact Us form, then looking to see what I like and don't like. Here's an interesting one, for instance, although it's not suitable for all sites of course:
http://dragoninteractive.com/contact
Watch what happens when you click in a field.
http://dragoninteractive.com/contact
Watch what happens when you click in a field.
Re: Making Attractive Web 2.0 Web Forms
Not sure what you mean by web 2.0 web forms. Forms are forms. The only thing that some newer web apps have done is make everything a bit simpler and easier to use. Sometimes that means making text a bit bigger.
What happens on the contact form you linked to is one line of css
What happens on the contact form you linked to is one line of css
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input:focus { background:#fce; }
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supermike
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Re: Making Attractive Web 2.0 Web Forms
Well, yeah, I'm aware of how to do the effect. I was just trying to gather links on designs and then make a new strategy for my forms.