Fancy Form Design

“Create mind-blowingly beautiful forms with ease!”

This book will show you how to:

Turn ugly forms into artistic masterpieces
Code forms without the “pull-your-hair-out” frustration
Combine stunning looks with maximum usability
Add funky functionality with jQuery goodness

What Will You Learn?

No longer do you need to shudder at the thought of integrating a stylish form on your site. Fancy Form Design is a complete, step-by-step guide to creating beautiful web forms that are aesthetically pleasing, highly functional, and compatible across all major browsers. All aspects of stunning form creation are covered in this book—from layout and composition through to best-practice CSS and HTML—topped off with a touch of JavaScript sparkle!

Plan your design with prototyping, visitor profiles, and use cases
Use grids, color, typography, icons, and texture in your design
Code with usable, accessible, and meaningful markup
Style with proven CSS tricks and techniques
Give your forms the “wow” factor with JavaScript

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This trio know what fancy is all about

Derek Featherstone is a designer, dad, husband, triathlete, speaker, author, accessibility specialist, and Group Lead of the Web Standards Project.

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

Jina Bolton is an interaction designer at Crush + Lovely. Previously, Jina worked at Apple, Inc. as a visual interaction designer and front-end web developer.

Gimme gimme! I want this book

The fastest way to get your hands on the most recent version of Fancy Form Design is by ordering it direct through us, the publisher. You can order the printed version for $29.95, the PDF edition for just $19.95, or both for just $39.95—that’s a saving of $10!

Order Book $29.95 Order PDF $19.95

No-risk Money-back Guarantee

Of course, we’re so confident that you’ll treasure this book for years to come that we’re happy, as always, for you to try it risk-free for 30 days. If you purchase a copy of Fancy Form Design and you think it fails to be everything you wanted, we would like you to have your money back. Simply contact us and we’ll see to it that you receive a prompt and courteous refund of the full purchase price, minus shipping and handling.