Fancy Form Design (Sitepoint) [Paperback]

Jina Bolton (Author), Derek Featherstone (Author), Tim Connell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0980576849 | ISBN-13: 978-0980576849 | Publication Date: October 8, 2009 | Edition: 1

Forms' - is there any other word that strikes as much fear into the hearts of web designers? Not any more ...

Fancy Form Design is a practical hands-on, full color book that follows the process of creating visually stunning yet usable web forms, from start to end. The book covers all design elements from planning the form's purpose and interface through to mastering markup, applying style with CSS, and adding interactivity and visual effects with JavaScript. By the end of the you'll will have the code, and wisdom, they need to build fancy forms of their own.

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About the Author

Jina Bolton lives in Silicon Valley, is a member if the AIGA, has a bachelor of fine arts (with an emphasis on computer arts & graphic design) and currently does web design professionally for a living. She's an active public speaker and co-author of SitePoint's The Art & Science of CSS.

Derek Featherstone is a well known instructor, author, speaker, and developer with expertise in web accessibility consulting. A high-quality instructor, Derek draws on 10 years experience running his web development and accessibility consultancy Further Ahead.

Tim Connell is a developer with Fresh Interface and a technical consultant for Squiz Australia, who specialize in enterprise content management.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: SitePoint; 1 edition (October 8, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980576849
• ISBN-13: 978-0980576849
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,078,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 1/3 of what the book should have been, November 14, 2009

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Jeffrey L. Armbruster (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fancy Form Design (Sitepoint) (Paperback)

The book is quite short, with large type, and pretty photos of very simple forms. It is about as realistic as Peter Pan. The forms are very very very very simple, so keeping the forms pretty and clean is a snap -- in the book. But what do you do with real-world forms that have lengthy, multi-line questions? Multi-part questions? Questions where part a changes what happens with part b and c?

I like Sitepoint publishers a lot, but I wasted my money on this book. Be advised.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars On the light side, April 12, 2010

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George - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fancy Form Design (Sitepoint) (Paperback)

This is a light weight book. Anyone other than a beginner might want to skip this book. It covers some basic information a beginner might find useful. It is not a book covering the many different ideas and concepts of form design and the size of the book reflexes that being only about 150 pages long. The book has just one extended example and not a particularly complex one. As for "Fancy" I think that is overstating the form design in the book. It is a solid, professionally design form, but one most developers already know how to create. For a beginner this might be one of many books to read. It is short and a fast read with several ideas and concepts a beginner should know.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars too limited for the money, February 7, 2010

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Tyler Kemp-Benedict "hardworking type" (Watertown, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fancy Form Design (Sitepoint) (Paperback)

I expected much better from SitePoint, but this book is just one extended example, and not an especially complicated one. Lots of space is taken up with repetitive code, and very little in examining a range of real-world challenges or alternative approaches to form design. Sorry I wasted my money on this one. I gave it two stars for covering material that might be useful to a beginner.