Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-08-07 Thread Wilbur Pereira
Joe, I am not good with estimates, how about playing with the application which is basically a questionnaire designer and is targeted at market research,employee feedback,quizzes,polls etc. and coming up with the estimates. Regards, Wilbur On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Joseph Ortenzi <[EMAIL P

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-08-06 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
Wilbur What''s your budget? Would you be able to spec it so the brief can be distributed? Joe On Aug 06, 2008, at 11:47, Wilbur Pereira wrote: Hi Jessica, I'm looking for somebody who can help me have user friendly and accessible forms. The product that I'm working has a lot of ajax in

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-08-06 Thread Wilbur Pereira
Hi Jessica, I'm looking for somebody who can help me have user friendly and accessible forms. The product that I'm working has a lot of ajax in it and is built using prototype, prototype windows,yui etc in ASP.NET. Please let me know when can we possibly take this further. The product facilitates

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-08-04 Thread Jessica Enders
Hi Kevin I'm no developer, but I can certainly advise on the *design* component of the project, if that would be of some assistance. I have designed GUIs for a travel and hotel booking engines before and as Joe Ortenzi says, I've been doing some research lately on tabular data. Feel fre

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-31 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
There is a recent article in alistapart about tabular data. The author is also a WSG contributor, who might point you in the direction of some good research. her site: http://formulate.com.au Joe On Jul 31, 2008, at 02:09, kevin mcmonagle wrote: Hi I've been asked to redesign the gui on a

RE: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-30 Thread Kepler Gelotte
>> Hi I've been asked to redesign the gui on a hotel booking engine / >> room allocation web app. >> >> Its basically the busiest example of tabular data ive ever seen - >> most data in the cells is input. >> >> Any Advice on styling an overwhelming amount tabular data? On an app like this you

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-30 Thread kevin mcmonagle
thanks good advice, i will comment it heavily. i will have to use crazy selectors as you say. The form is in a restricted site but i will put up a screen shot. Joseph Taylor wrote: If you can't clean up the html you'll be forced to use ridiculous selectors like: table tr td table tr td form t

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-30 Thread Joseph Taylor
If you can't clean up the html you'll be forced to use ridiculous selectors like: table tr td table tr td form table tr td input { padding: 0.35em; } Use firebug to get the complex selectors right and comment the hell out of your stylesheets so you can come back it later without freaking ou

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-30 Thread Matthew Holloway
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:09 PM, kevin mcmonagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I've been asked to redesign the gui on a hotel booking engine / room > allocation web app. > > Its basically the busiest example of tabular data ive ever seen - most data > in the cells is input. I think you'll need t