Web Forms have been a very popular feature among BatchBook users. Turns out, people love being able to let their web site visitors do their own contact data entry! 
Through the BatchBook forums and email support, we’ve received a lot of great recommendations for feature enhancements. Among those requests was the ability to style the web form in a way that will fit your web site’s look and feel a bit better. As Sean pointed out on the thread, that’s actually doable right now with a bit of html wizardry. So, let’s do it!
Step 1: Create your form & grab the raw HTML
For this example, I’m going to replace the embedded contact form on my own website with the raw web form code. The first thing we need is a web form to grab the raw code from. (more…)
Tags: batchbook, css, html, lists, web forms
As a web designer, one of the most exciting aspects of joining BatchBlue a year and a half ago (wow, has it really been that long?) was the opportunity to develop with web standards every single day. In my past as a multimedia designer, I worked with many diverse software packages. But I was then and still am completely in love with good, old-fashioned, W3C-sanctioned XHTML and CSS that works on every (modern) browser and in any environment.
Designing with CSS can be a bit tricky, and I’ve helped quite a few people get started over the past couple of years. I finally decided to collect all of my favorite CSS techniques and record them in one place—which I’ve done in a post on my personal blog appropriately called “My Favorite CSS Techniques“.
I wanted to share the list here, too, in case:
- you’re starting your own business and are curious of “the right way” to build your site…
- you’re looking to save some money and want to update your existing web site yourself…
- you’re just curious about how to do this stuff!
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Tags: css, html, web design, web standards, xhtml
