There is not much to learn for doing web design:
- Menu
- Layout
- Forms
Then you learn few content management, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, andshopping cart, and learn how to customize them. I am still learning all that and in the last week I built a form that is sent to my client. Form has few step. Layout, data entry, form verification and form processing; wether the form is sent to and e-mail or the for is sent to a database.
What I did was a simple form, using a php scrip to send the for by e-mail and some javascript for the verification (not done at this moment) and javascript for the date picker. I could have gone quite further with the form making but I feel that was a good start. I search extensively trough the net to gather all the technical info about form and here what I found :
Date picker
http://frequency-decoder.com/ Please visit the site as well, search engine is quite cute and fancy. The direct link to the datepicker page is : http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2006/10/02/unobtrusive-date-picker-widgit-update
Php form mailer
http://thedemosite.co.uk/phpformmailer/ Really simple and easy to customize, I added some header to the mail out in order to create HTML mail out:
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
Here are some other link that I found around that were also really useful:
Form field hints with CSS and JavaScript (Ask the CSS Guy)
dompdf – The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter
Nidahas ยป Forms markup and CSS – Revisited
CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions | CSS | Smashing Magazine
wForms – A Javascript Extension to Web Forms – The Form Assembly – The Form Assembly
Generating and Validating Web Forms With PEAR HTML_QuickForm (part 2)
