Pete Freitag has continuted on his series of blog posts about building web forms that aren't annoying. His key points were to use scripting to enhance the experience on a form, but make sure the form works if the user has Javascript turned off.

Another point he brings up is alignment and spacing are important.

"I think the one thing that makes or breaks any design is the alignment and spacing. Good design typically has aligned objects with adequate spacing. Poor design is typically not aligned, and has very little spacing between elements."

Read the entire blog post here

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Ok, so I don't have a MySpace account, other than the one my wife and I set up to view our friends pictures =), but I had to blog about Mike Davidson doing his CSS magic to make his MySpace page actually look decent.

There are many tags that MySpace strips out of your code but they do leave alot of room to play with. You can check out how Mike did it here on his blog.

I've got to say, it almost makes me want to create a profile on MySpace.... =)

Pete Freitag posted a blog regarding best practices for designing web forms. Part 1 goes over his first generalization which is:

Don't use a select list when the user can more easily type in what they want.

He is referring to 2-character country code dropdowns as well as 2-character state dropdowns. His recommendation would be to let the user type in their own 2-character country code or state code. Another option would be to use Ajax to pull city and state info when the user types in their zip code.

Read the entire blog post here: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/526.cfm

Rachel Cunliffe (www.cre8d-design.com) has put together a Web Design/Project toolkit with some very useful links to websites with great examples and content. Including inspiration, fonts, images, colors, lists, filler text, and web validators. Check it out here!