On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Martin McCormick <mar...@x.it.okstate.edu> wrote: > I am looking for a way besides manually cobbling html > together to build web pages with forms that users could fill in > to help us provide automated services that we presently must > manually suffer through.
It's not entirely clear what your problem with "manually cobbling html together" is that you are trying to solve, or that a different editor is going to help. If your problem is repetitive labor, maybe what you need is a templating system like Jinja2 to allow you to reuse code. If your problem is time to market, maybe what you need is a full-blown web application framework like Django, which would typically include a templating system, prebuilt widgets, and utilities for processing form submissions and interacting with databases? If your problem is not knowing the right HTML to use, maybe you need a good resource on HTML like: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Web_Standards_Curriculum "We have no way to tell the customer what he/she should enter. They don't know what we want so nobody's happy." Is your problem that you're not sure how to encode names and descriptions for form fields in HTML? Use "label" elements to name controls. Associate labels with controls with "for" and "id" attributes. Use "p" elements to provide additional text help for controls. Associate paragraphs with controls using the "id" and "aria-describedby" attributes. Use "fieldset" to group controls. Use "legend" to name field sets. Does this example help? <h1>Title for the form</h1> <p>General introduction to the form.</p> <form action="submission-url" method="POST"> <fieldset> <legend>Short name for a group of form controls</legend> <label for="unique-control-identifier">Short name for an individual control:</label> <input name="name-to-use-when-submitting-the-form" id="unique-control-identifier" aria-describedby="unique-additional-help-identifier"> <p id="unique-additional-help-identifier">Additional help for the control goes here.</p> </fieldset> <input type="submit" value="Short name for submit button"> </form> Alternatively, if you're not sure how to design forms to be easy to use, I recommend _Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks_ by Luke Wroblewski: http://www.lukew.com/resources/web_form_design.asp -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
