I’ve always found it a little tricky to write truly valid forms, yet still keeping the layout looking anything half decent. I guess you can hack it around a bit and float div’s left and right, but it somehow always seemed a rather long-winded way to go about things. So I’ve always just used a table based layout for my forms… I started using the label tag a little while ago, which I believe adds to the accessibility of forms, but apart from that the way I code hasn’t changed much over the years… Until now…

I’ve found a great CSS based layout template for forms which claims to be both semantically correct and accessible, it also (I believe) validates to W3 standards, so here’s the page that shows you how to make accessible web forms.

A little thin on the ground with regards to the graphical elements but at first glance looks like a useful wireframe layout guide for building validated CSS based sites.

Check out the nice and free CSS layout templates available at mycelly.com

If you want to pimp your site and make it look the business take a look at these great AJAX script resources. AJAX is a bit of a buzzword at the moment which I don’t particularly agree with, especially as there are plenty of cool web2.0 effects which might be branded as AJAX script when infact they don’t have any AJAX requests at all. But it’s fair to say that it does represent the modern approach to web design.

So here are the links.

http://www.miniajax.com/
http://www.ajaxrain.com/

Ok maybe a slightly strange choice of category title, but I needed somewhere in our lovely little blog to share with the world all the amazing new things we discover which just make us go ‘WOW’! I’ve been looking on Ajaxrain.com lately (fantastic site by the way guys) and there have been quite a few times when I’ve just had my socks blown off I’ve been so impressed, check out my favourites so far.

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