A guide to creating usable Web forms covers all design elements from planning the forms purpose and interface to adding interactivity and visual effects. Two web designers and one developer share their thoughts on designing web forms with an eye to usability and accessibility, choosing the visual elements of an online form, structuring the form with markup, and adding style elements with CSS that will run consistently across browsers. The last chapter walks through JavaScript enhancements for pull-down menus, checkboxes, client-side validation, and password strength testing. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) A practical hands-on guide that follows the process of creating visually stunning yet usable Web forms, Fancy Form Design covers all design elements from planning the forms purpose and interface through to adding interactivity and visual effects. Designing forms has been an area of web design that has frustrated even the most experienced web designers. Forms are an essential part of modern web-site design so a book that steps readers through all elements of best-practice and stunning form design, and by providing complete working code for them to use in their own projects, is sure to be popular. This book will differentiate itself from other form-design books through its practical approach. Rather than theorize about what make a form look beautiful, it allows readers to get their hands dirty and create their own stunning forms by following this easy-to-understand guide.
