Defining Chaos In Order

Even the best looking designs can be made obsolete when plain-old-boring input fields are used, in forms. No make-up, no styling, just input fields. It’s not inviting for a user to jump in and fill out the form. And this also means it’s not inviting for people to fill out their contact information on your web-shop, or sign up for your newsletter.

Yet there are so many easy ways to style your forms, you can use advanced AJAX calls that verify your input in real-time for validity, notify you of usernames that aren’t free anymore or alert you of new events, while you’re filling out a form, suggest search keywords as you type the, etc … The list is extremely long. Read more…

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Because not every browser has a 100% correct CSS implementation, it often requires ‘hacks’, or workarounds to get something working in a variety of browsers. Think Firefox & IE6, Opera & Safari or Conqueror & IE7. Each of those browsers will behave differently when given the same CSS stylesheet.

You can create several stylesheets, and include them depending on the user’s browser. Or you can use Conditional CSS, and keep all your CSS in one file – talk about avoiding triple work, eh? Read more…

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