So I was looking at the site for the new offering from 37Signals, and noticed their HUGE signup field to be notified upon its release.
And I thought to myself, why not use this for other things, like breaking up forms?
For example, I could restyle my contact form:
It could also conceivably work for static information as well (excerpt from a site I made for a HuCo project, which allows users to rate vendors at Edmonton-area farmer's markets):
Capilano Farmer's Market
5004 98 Ave |
get mapSat from 09:30 to 17:30
Year-round market
The idea is to break up chunks of information and signify the chunks by making the most important section of the chunk larger than the rest. (An interesting note to the farmer's market site is that I added a pseudo-Ajax-like function for adding vendors and ratings; if you click on either of those links, a form replaces the content. I'm planning on adding this to the CMS systems I've created for a couple of clients)
What do you folks think?
I love that one giant field. Looks nice.
In your example above, I'd have to go the other way, remove the size change, and stick with alternately colored rows, and the headings bold.
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