Bulletproof Web Forms Part Three: Style
When web developers abandoned tables, they left behind a vacuum when it comes to forms, and since then form presentation has taken a step backward. Perhaps the most common CSS form design is to align the textual labels to the right along an invisible axis and then align form elements to the left of the axis creating the illusion of a table-like grid while keeping mark-up and CSS small and semantic. Many users find right-aligned text to be more difficult to read, and so balancing your form on an invisible axis can create an unnecessary hurdle for users.
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Bulletproof Web Forms Part Two: Accessibility
Now that we've roughed out the content and have written the preliminary mark-up, it's time to take a look at accessibility. Accessibility is an often overlooked aspect of web design that has many benefits. Outlining those benefits, however, is beyond the scope of this article. Suffice it say that it will allow users on any web browser to use your site more easily. If your user is browsing with a screen-reader, text-only browser, a cellphone, or a desktop browser like Firefox, adding accessibility features will make your form more user-friendly.
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Bulletproof Web Forms Part One: Content
A web form is most often the core of a web site. Every e-commerce web site and every community or social web site relies on forms to succeed, yet forms are so often neglected. I've spent some time lately working with forms, and I'm pleased to share my findings in a series of articles where I will cover form content, accessibility, presentation, and behavior of bullet-proof form design.
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No more recent referrers
I disabled the recent referrers section in the sidebar tonight. Part of how your browser works, is it sends the URI or the page you are on to the page you go to next, that's called a referrer. I store that information, and then when people visit the site, I was displaying the last ten referrers that came from other web sites.
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- 2006-02-08
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Weather Channel Jamz
My wife has gotten me into the habit of checking the Weather Channel in the mornings, and I've grown fond of the "Local on the 8s" segment. Apart from actually appreciating knowledge of the forecast, it seems that some of the muzac
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- 2006-01-16
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