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Resources regarding design issues for putting forms online, and examples of online forms on government websites.
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Added: 9 December 2005
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- 10 Form Optimization Tips For Landing Pages
- by Mona Elesseily. Search Engine Land, January 23, 2012. "Over the years, I've done a lot of work with form optimization. In this article, I'll cover some tried and true form optimization tips. I've done most of my testing on the PPC side, but obviously, the information can also be used effectively to improve overall form conversions on websites..."
Added: 15 February 2012;
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- 14 Ways to Improve Conversion Rates of Online Forms
- by Jo Roberts and Anne Yastremski. Marketing Profs, October 19, 2010. "Online Web forms that capture customer data in exchange for content or another kind of information or service are often the first point of contact customers have with your business. So, why are they frequently so awful? Or overly ambitious? Why do marketers try to collect too much information, or require extraneous information customers aren’t interested in readily handing over? Capturing and converting leads online is all about user experience. Provide visitors with a positive experience, and you're more likely to interest them in taking the next step in the pipeline: getting to know your company better. Here are 14 ways marketers can improve the conversion rates of their Web forms..."
Added: 20 October 2010;
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- Forward Thinking Form Validation
- by Ryan Seddon. A List Apart Magazine, 21 September 2010. "Form validation has been a finicky business since the web was born. First came the server-side validation error summary. Then we evolved to client-side validation to verify results inline. Now, we have the marching giant that is HTML5 and CSS3: HTML5's forms chapter offers new input types and attributes that make validation constraints possible. CSS3's basic UI module provides several pseudo-classes to help us style those validation states and change a field's appearance based on the user's actions. Let's take a look at combining the two to create a CSS-based form validator that has fairly broad browser support..."
Added: 13 October 2010;
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- Testing Accordion Forms
- by Luke Wroblewski. A List Apart Magazine, September 21, 2010. "... Web forms are the linchpins of most online businesses and applications. Whether they are responsible for checkout on e-commerce sites, communication on social applications, or any kind of data entry on the web, forms allow people to complete important tasks. And web form design details can have a big influence on how successful, efficient, and happy people feel about the process. Especially details like form length..."
Added: 13 October 2010;
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- 7 Form Factors to Increase Conversions
- By Bryan Eisenberg, ClickZ, April 23, 2010. "... Today, let's cover seven factors to consider when designing your forms for maximum conversionability and persuadability: Size; Fields; Labels; Benefits; Prominence; Call to action; Confidence building..."
Added: 29 April 2010;
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- How To Measure The Quality Of An Online Form
- Posted by Tomasz Lewandowski from Bluerank, a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant. Google Analytics Blog, Monday, April 12, 2010. "... Online forms. You enter information into them all the time. You fill them out to make online purchases, sign up for things, sing into things, complete surveys, and more. They're an integral part of the online processes. And like all things, they can break... The great news is that you can use Google Analytics to do quality control on your forms. Read on to learn how..."
Added: 20 April 2010;
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- Don't Put Hints Inside Text Boxes in Web Forms
- By Caroline Jarrett. UXMatters, March 21, 2010. "... Should we put a hint inside a text box? The short version of my advice: Don't do it! Hint text is rarely effective as a way of helping users, but instead becomes a default input.Read on, and I'll explain. I'll start with an example, then look at the origins of the idea of hint text, and present some data that shows how hint text fails to help even highly Web-savvy users..."
Added: 24 March 2010;
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- Pagination in Web Forms - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Web Forms
- By Janet M. Six. UX Matters, March 21, 2010. "In this Ask UXmatters column - which is the first in a two-part series focusing on Web form design and evaluation - our experts discuss: whether and how to divide a Web form into multiple pages; evaluating the effectiveness of Web forms..."
Added: 24 March 2010;
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- Label Alignment in Long Forms - Paper Prototyping for Engineers
- By Janet M. Six. UXMatters, January 18, 2010. In this edition of Ask UXmatters, our experts discuss two topics: label alignment in long forms; paper prototyping for engineers.
Added: 24 January 2010;
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- Inline Validation in Web Forms
- by Luke Wroblewski. A List Apart Magazine, September 1, 2009. "... Real-time inline validation can help people complete web forms more quickly and with less effort, fewer errors, and (surprise!) more satisfaction. Inline validation gives people several types of real-time feedback: It can confirm an appropriate answer, suggest valid answers, and provide regular updates to help people stay within necessary limits. These bits of feedback can be presented before, during and / or after users provide answers..."
Added: 17 September 2009;
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- Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0
- by Roger Hudson. Web Usability, 5 September 2008. "Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0" is the first of a series of documents to help web professionals use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0 to develop accessible websites. This document aims to provide web developers and others with practical advice about the preparation of accessible HTML forms. It compares the WCAG 1.0 accessibility requirements relating to forms with those contained in WCAG 2.0..."
Added: 25 May 2009;
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- Optimize Forms To Maximize Conversions
- by Mary Harste. Search Engine Land, May 13, 2009. "Many B2B marketers use web forms to facilitate registrations, generate leads, or to acquire customers. Improving implementation of online forms can have a dramatic, positive impact on increasing conversion rates and maximizing ROI associated with B2B marketing programs... Forms that are too cumbersome, too daunting, or poorly implemented place a major roadblock in the way of your visitors—and provide yet another excuse for people to leave your site without converting..."
Added: 14 May 2009;
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- XForms for HTML, First Public Draft
- W3C, 19 December 2008. "The Forms Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of XForms for HTML. XForms for HTML provides a set of attributes and script methods that can be used by the tags or elements of an HTML or XHTML web page to simplify the integration of data-intensive interactive processing capabilities from XForms. The semantics of the attributes are mapped to the rich XForms model-view-controller-connector architecture, thereby allowing web application authors a smoother, selective migration path to the higher-order behaviors available from the full element markup available in modules of XForms..."
Added: 24 December 2008;
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- The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist for Forms and Processing Errors
- by Stoney deGeyter. Search Engine Guide, 18 September 2008. "... This list covers how web forms should be created as well as basic functionality, including how errors are handled when something goes awry..."
Added: 19 September 2008;
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- Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications: Part 1
- by Afshan Kirmani. Boxes and Arrows, 18 September 2008. "I started writing this article with an emphasis on the financial domain. I then realized that I would like to broaden the focus because my findings are also applicable to a general domain like email account registrations, for example. In this article, I would like to take a simple example of how users register for an email account online. For a first timer, is the transition from a real world of letter writing to the online medium easy? And for a frequent user, is he or she motivated enough to create an email account with another service provider?..."
Added: 19 September 2008;
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