Laying out the style of the form is a design decision, and it should be tested against users to determine if it is usable. A couple of hints to keep in mind to make your users more likely to fill out your forms. Use meaningful labels to describe what the user should input into the form. The…
Now that there is some background information on forms, let’s look at actually building some, and what goes into it. Form Creation First you should add form tag <form>. The form tag has several attributes which will allow you to modify how the form works. The first two are usually used. However, if they are omitted,…
In any website of any reasonable size, you will run into one or more forms to allow the end user to send information to the server. This could be for sending a message to the host, ordering something, etc. Forms can be simple, like a text box to search, or complicated with hundreds of fields….
When people talk about web development roles, you often here about three types of web developers, Front End, Back End, and Full Stack. Let’s look at what each of these means. Front End A Front End developer is one which works with the part of the web application which is visible to the end-user. They…
We’ve looked at creating basic links previously. We are going to review that information, and work on additional information for creating links within Dreamweaver. A Basic Link A hyperlink, more commonly called a link, is a tag that is used to send a user to another page or resource when they click on the link….
When developing a theme for WordPress, we talked about the importance of a good theme header, the header.php file. This includes not just the mast head of the HTML document that you see, but also the head tag, which includes the doctype, title, CSS links, and more. Likewise, it is important to close with a…
Some things are more complex/fancy than useful. Consider the Star Wars Crawl, The Matrix, or a 3D cube. These are often proof’s of concept/fun projects that see what can be done. Of course, soon we’ll see clients who want to have their websites scroll vertically automatically like the matrix, or into a distance like with…
Often clients, bosses, and others will give you documents (trying to be helpful) and you will need to convert them into HTML format. There are several ways to do this, each with their own merits and drawbacks. We will look at three different methods. You can skip to the bottom to see a YouTube video…
