Form Design Cribsheet

From NewHaven Software Wiki

The graphic below illustrates some of the principles to keep in mind when creating customer facing forms on your site. If you are using eCMS you can use CSS to style any of your forms.

Frameworks:

• http://formee.org/demo/index.htm - An easy to use and small framework just for forms.

• http://blueprintcss.org/ Example http://blueprintcss.org/tests/parts/forms.html

• http://formalize.me/

• http://sprawsm.com/uni-form/

• http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ This is a large framework built by Twitter. Be warned that it's "for nerds, by nerds".

Validation:

• http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation

Buttons:

• http://www.cssbuttongenerator.com/ Great cross-browser CSS based button generator. An easy and quick way to style all of your submit buttons.