Public Opinion - How others do it?

[Dave-418]

Just looking for some opinions here.

 

I am working on an app and frustrated with forms.

 

Basic site layout is 2  column layout 200px wide left side (menu) , 700px wide main right section (page content).

 

I have some forms that fill up the page, others are 2 or 3 fields so a full page with all that white space looks terrible. I have tried so many different ideas and now just looking for thoughts or suggestions.

 

I have loaded the forms in a modal box and looks good for the smaller forms but larger forms look bad as the modal almost is the entire height of the window defeating the purpose.

Also with the modals error messages increase the size of the modal (using colorbox) which then adds scroll bars because the errors increase the original loaded height = ugly 

 

I tried adding edit buttons which then load the form into a div dynamically and sumbit ajax on success the form goes away and the content is updated directly on the page, only problem with that is on some pages there are there are multiple edits of smaller forms so user can then end up with 5 or 6 edit forms and if someare in modals and others are not the design consistency is thrown off. I would like to keep the methods for editing the same thruoght the site.

 

I like the look of the modal, but the pricticality of simple vs fancy. But I want all the form sumbitted ajax either way.

 

So open to suggestions, ideas, other ways to implement clean forms....

 

I know I have over thought this but maybe if someone told me what to do rather than me making the decision I might just go for it :)

 

Thanks

 

Dave

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[Dave-421]

This is kind of obvious but could you split the longer forms into two sections so the modal window isn't so tall?

You can pass $this->data from the first section to the next and store them in hidden fields, then actually persist the data on the second page (to ensure no partial submissions).

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Dave <make.cake.bake@...> wrote:

Just looking for some opinions here.

 

I am working on an app and frustrated with forms.

 

Basic site layout is 2  column layout 200px wide left side (menu) , 700px wide main right section (page content).

 

I have some forms that fill up the page, others are 2 or 3 fields so a full page with all that white space looks terrible. I have tried so many different ideas and now just looking for thoughts or suggestions.

 

I have loaded the forms in a modal box and looks good for the smaller forms but larger forms look bad as the modal almost is the entire height of the window defeating the purpose.

Also with the modals error messages increase the size of the modal (using colorbox) which then adds scroll bars because the errors increase the original loaded height = ugly 

 

I tried adding edit buttons which then load the form into a div dynamically and sumbit ajax on success the form goes away and the content is updated directly on the page, only problem with that is on some pages there are there are multiple edits of smaller forms so user can then end up with 5 or 6 edit forms and if someare in modals and others are not the design consistency is thrown off. I would like to keep the methods for editing the same thruoght the site.

 

I like the look of the modal, but the pricticality of simple vs fancy. But I want all the form sumbitted ajax either way.

 

So open to suggestions, ideas, other ways to implement clean forms....

 

I know I have over thought this but maybe if someone told me what to do rather than me making the decision I might just go for it :)

 

Thanks

 

Dave

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[euromark (munich)]

check out the wizard component in the bakery


On 6 Nov., 05:14, David Roda <davidcr...@...> wrote:

> This is kind of obvious but could you split the longer forms into two
> sections so the modal window isn't so tall?
>
> You can pass $this->data from the first section to the next and store them
> in hidden fields, then actually persist the data on the second page (to
> ensure no partial submissions).
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Dave <make.cake.b...@...> wrote:
> >  Just looking for some opinions here.
>
> > I am working on an app and frustrated with forms.
>
> > Basic site layout is 2  column layout 200px wide left side (menu) , 700px
> > wide main right section (page content).
>
> > I have some forms that fill up the page, others are 2 or 3 fields so a full
> > page with all that white space looks terrible. I have tried so many
> > different ideas and now just looking for thoughts or suggestions.
>
> > I have loaded the forms in a modal box and looks good for the smaller forms
> > but larger forms look bad as the modal almost is the entire height of the
> > window defeating the purpose.
> > Also with the modals error messages increase the size of the modal (using
> > colorbox) which then adds scroll bars because the errors increase the
> > original loaded height = ugly
>
> > I tried adding edit buttons which then load the form into a div dynamically
> > and sumbit ajax on success the form goes away and the content is updated
> > directly on the page, only problem with that is on some pages there are
> > there are multiple edits of smaller forms so user can then end up with 5 or
> > 6 edit forms and if someare in modals and others are not the design
> > consistency is thrown off. I would like to keep the methods for editing the
> > same thruoght the site.
>
> > I like the look of the modal, but the pricticality of simple vs fancy. But
> > I want all the form sumbitted ajax either way.
>
> > So open to suggestions, ideas, other ways to implement clean forms....
>
> > I know I have over thought this but maybe if someone told me what to do
> > rather than me making the decision I might just go for it :)
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Dave
>
> --
> David C. Roda
> 717-917-2169

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