25 Fantastic Web Forms for Design Inspiration
“Well designed and enhanced web forms can really complete a great website interface experience (ie. sign up forms). It’s certainly not an aspect developers or designers should settle for less on. We’ve gathered 25 really fantastic web forms for your design and development inspiration.”
Quick Tip: New HTML5 Form Features
“In this screencast, we’ll take a quick look at a few new HTML5 features: the placeholder and autofocus tools, as well as the email and URL input types.”
Quick Tip: Making a Fancy WordPress Register Form from Scratch
“In this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of making a beautiful ‘Register’ form, using Fancybox, jQuery, and, of course, WordPress. As you’ll find, the process is really quite simple.”
Rethinking Forms in HTML5
“While there are many changes for the better in the HTML5 specification, there is no better bang for the buck for the data driven website than the transformation of forms. These simple changes will transform how you enter, validate, process, and even display inputs. You will be able to create more usable web applications with less code and less confusion.”
Design a Prettier Web Form with CSS 3 | Nettuts+
“Thanks to advanced CSS properties, such as gradients and shadows, it’s now quite easy to turn a dull web form into something beautiful - with minimal effort. I’ll show you how in today’s tutorial!”
The Quickest (and Best) Way to Create Forms: Wufoo | Nettuts+
This detailed Wufoo tutorial by Siddharth will get you creating forms in no time.
“Wufoo is a web application which intends to simplify forms. Forms can generally be tedious to work with. You’d have to write the XHTML/CSS for the form elements, set up the back end code to capture all the data and then work on generating usable reports for it. Wufoo simplifies this entire process right from form creation to integrating it within your site through extensive theme support to producing pretty, usable reports for you to parse your data.
“It even does a lot of advanced stuff, including web hooks and a proper API to access the collected data. Today, we’ll look at how to create a simple form with Wufoo, and then use the API to programmatically access and modify the data collected.”
