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Here is a great littl etutorial on how to make that form look slick!

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/design-a-prettier-web-form-with-css-3

I came across a great blog today that showcases how to validate forms for your website.

http://sixrevisions.com/user-interface/best-practices-for-hints-and-validation-in-web-forms

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 8:30 am and is filed under Design Resources, Inspirada, Website Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/02/a_new_global_visual_language_f.html

Above is a link to a style guide example and a chronology of a website design process for BBC.

What I love about this post is that it exposes the creative process from the problem to the solution.

Companies nowadays, don’t have as big of a need for a “new” website for their business, but rather a better designed one. A company typically starts out with a modest watered down, basic foundation for what they believe their website should represent. And because the website is a living breathing thing, something you can tweak on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis, the website over time will begin to look disconnected. Especially if you have different teams working on the tweaks both internally or externally.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 10:13 am and is filed under Inspirada, Website Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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By Now everyone should be aware of adobe’s kulor. and the tools included in the adobe creative suite cs4.

But here is a list of color palette tools that are truly inspirational.

Particularly when you can upload an image and they will either show you what the color is made of, and/or have the ability to develop a palete that compliments an uploaded image…

http://designrfix.com/web-development-tools/30-color-tools-designers/

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 8:28 am and is filed under Design Process, Design Resources, Design Tips For Clients, Inspirada. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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I came across this site a while back and forgotten about it, since I have been creating my own collection of samples to refer to for inspirada, But what I have always struggled with is grouping the samples into categories, and behold this site is awesome because of its filtering feature. It is sure to be my starting point for any new web project…

http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 10th, 2010 at 9:05 am and is filed under Inspirada, Website Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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I agree that a form is probably the most important element to a website design, its most likely the primary goal for the site even being built. designing a form to be engaging and not compete with the design is a challenge and here are some great examples to guide you in the right direction.

http://www.queness.com/post/1581/20-absolutely-stylish-web-form-design-showcase

I would just add a warning don’t get so creative that a user doesn’t really understand what to do. One of my favorite forms I ever designed was this cool flash form that the fields animated out and the font was a custom font and not one fomr was filled out when I changed the form to a typical form most people are used to seeing then leads started to come in.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 9:54 am and is filed under Inspirada, Website Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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