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HTML5 and CSS3 Web Page Tutorials
The arrival of HTML5 and CSS3 has given web designers a major sense of excitement by offering a broader range of options, creative opportunities and shortcuts for designing a web page. We could talk about all of these new features endlessly, instead, to keep things simple, we have highlighted four web tutorials that make use of HTML5 and CSS3 perfectly and that demonstrate effectively the potential power of these fantastic technologies.
Creating a Minimal Blog Design Using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
Creating a Minimal Blog Design Using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
Coding a Stylish Blog Design Layout in HTML & CSS
This tutorial starts with the Photoshop stage of the blog design process, and shows how the design and layout are created to form an initial concept from which the fully coded blog will be based on.
Coding a Stylish Blog Design Layout in HTML & CSS
Touch The Future: Create An Elegant Website With HTML 5 And CSS3
The aim of this tutorial is to create an elegant blog/portfolio for an efficient professional (graphic and web designer or photographer), coded through two new great technologies, HTML 5 and CSS3.
Touch The Future: Create An Elegant Website With HTML 5 And CSS3
Build a HTML5/CSS3 Website Layout Without Images
Build a HTML5/CSS3 Website Layout Without Images
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).
JQuery (In Comparison To Flash)
JQuery is a framework for JavaScript which was released in 2006. The whole framework was developed by John Resig, an American Resident, Currently working with Mozilla Corporation as a JavaScript Tool Developer. Although there are many other JavaScript frameworks jQuery has been proven best in all the frameworks. The other frameworks like MooTools, Spry, midori, qooxdoo also allow you to manipulate the client side HTML content, but jQuery became very popular among all these because of its flexibility, easy coding standards and ability to deliver robust outcomes. In simple language jQuery makes the tasks done by JavaScripts easy, fast and understanding. One can manipulate css, content, images, HTML attributes and even the server side data by implementation of Ajax with jQuery.
In simple language jQuery makes the tasks done by JavaScripts easy, fast and understanding. One can manipulate css, content, images, HTML attributes and even the server side data by implementation of Ajax with jQuery.
Before jQuery, whenever it comes to animation or sliding, the only thing came into everyone’s mind was Flash. But after jQuery, one is totally ignoring using flash wherever possible. The main reason behind this is not that jQuery is the best over flash, but the implementation of jQuery over flash is better, easy and quick. Whenever one needs to place any flash content in their website, the client browser must be supportive to show the content of the flash. i.e. A Flash player is always needed. Now, as the flash player is needed, what would happen is that the control for that content is given to the flash player by the browser and hence the third party comes into existence costing the speed of the website. So if the browser is not fully able to load the content of a web page by its own, and requires some other application to show some part of the page, it will definitely take more time to load the page. And what about the users who do not have flash player in their browser at all? They will first need to download it as an add-on and then only they will be able to serf the page fully, which definitely lessens the interest of the visitor.
Where as in jQuery every kind of animations are possible as the Flash gives and need not the third party application to load or run a code and content. It is because most of the browsers introduced till date in this world which supports JavaScript, also supports jQuery, remember – jQuery is the framework for JavaScript. Look, how easy it is! One more benefit of jQuery over Flash is that any naïve developer or programmer can easily handle it with little sweat, but Flash is not any Tom-Dick-&-Harry’s cup of tea. Hence, the ultimate benefit of jQuery is less men power, as the developer himself can create the animation and scripting. To use jQuery is also very simple, one just need to add only a single file called jquery.js (jQuery Library) and little code in the HTML page where the magic is to be done. jQuery provides slider, menu bar, image rotation, image fading, text animation, interaction between client side and server side data, and whatever you can think of.
That’s the reason you would see the jQuery more and flash less in the recent websites. Flash is totally becoming or I can say became obsolete from the world of Web. Now days one would prefer flash only if they have a special requirement of the flash action scripts. Other than this don’t expect the anymore use of the Flash in the websites now.
Few advantages of jQuery over flash are:
1) jQuery is compatible with every browser.
2) jQuery is also compatible with iPhone, iPad, cell phones etc. which Flash is not.
3) jQuery is very less in size and a single jQuery can create as many animations, sliding and other effects. But in the case of Flash you will need individual flash files for every animations and sliding.
4) jQuery is a freeware where as if one want to develop something in Flash one would need to purchase a Flash Development Suite.
5) Flash files are always large in size. On the other hand jQuery file is less than 60kb in size.
6) Flash always need the upmost skill to create even a single simple stuff, but in jQuery any one little familiar with HTML and JavaScript can easily create anything.
These are very few, but the list is very long. There are only two disadvantages of jQuery over Flash, which are:
1) jQuery does not give high 3D effects and,
2) JavaScript can be disabled from the browser which will disable jQuery too.
Few examples of the jQuery artwork like flash are given below:
1) http://webdesignledger.com/tutorials/13-excellent-jquery-animation-techniques
2) http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/web-development/jquery-animation-tutorials/
3) http://www.queness.com/post/1942/10-stunning-examples-of-jquery-animations
Designing for a Responsive Web with Heuristic Methods
As the web has developed so has the technology and range of platforms we can use to engage with it. As the range of screens increases, higher resolution displays are becoming the norm whilst at the same time both larger and smaller screens are becoming more widespread than ever before.
As designers we have a choice. Do we continue designing for the ’safe’ standard of 960px or do we expand our horizons and begin to think about flexible or even responsive web design. Sites that look different for different users depending upon their screen size are not a new thing, mobile sites have been around for years, but responsive design proposes something else entirely, designs which scale to anything from a iPhone right up to a 52″ high definition television screen.
3 Ways to Build a Responsive Site
Firstly, Fluid Layouts
Fluid layouts have been around for years and many of the first sites that populated the early web where such that they would expand to whatever size the browser could handle. These sites have the benefit of only requiring one design and set of code, however when a site can be displayed at any width there can never be any consistency as to how information is presented and often leads to messy sites.
A popular use of fluid width sites can be seen on many of the Yahoo! sites where there is a fixed width column bounded by a fluid area, populated with smaller boxes of content.
Secondly, Mobile & Desktop
By far the most popular method of accounting for vastly differing sizes in screens, and the user experiences associated with them, is the design of two websites. Often first created is the desktop version, after which a smaller, scaled down version is curated for mobile users. This approach achieves two objectives. Firstly it allows for only two designs to be created, minimizing the time taken to code whilst still optimizing the site for each of the two key categories. Secondly it provides the content creator with two, consistent and therefore predictable, formats in which the content will be displayed.
However this split-personality approach to web design can leave out many devices which either fall between the two, such as the iPad and netbooks, or are far larger than the standard desktop, HD Tv’s for example. This can lead to clients requesting an ‘iPad Version of the site’ or citing the need to ‘appify’ their site for ‘those fancy tablet things’.
Thirdly, Media Queries
Once of the most trumpeted developments in the new CSS3 spec is something called ‘media queries’, which allow us the option to specify certain ranges of sizes at which the page should change layout. The benefit of this approach is that the site only has to be designed once and from that each set can be created.
On the flip-side this requires a new way of thinking about content (and probably a fallback of mobile/desktop for older browsers as well), as a series of modules or sections, rather than as single elements.
Designing a Responsive Project
When building a responsive site there are many considerations, however by far the hardest is how to make your content flow, here are 5 tips for creating a responsive design.
1. Follow natural breaks such as <h2> and its friends
Heading are, or should be, used to break content into scannable chunks. That means that when looking where to break the content for a responsive design headings tags are a great place to start.
2. Images often tell their own story
On many sites images are only vaguely related to the content around them. It therefore often doesn’t matter whether the image is on the left of, above or below a paragraph of text, making images a great candidate for shifting in a responsive design.
3. Quotes, Code & Tables are contextual
Whilst similar to images these extra pieces of information are often far more directly related to the content than the images. It is often a good idea to group these with the explaining paragraphs, either before or after as a section on their own.
4. Don’t split up blog posts
Unless you write long blog posts it is often worth working your design around a blog post, product page or other central content. About Us or Staff pages, whilst nice are far less critical to the sites purpose but those pages that are the bread and butter of the site should be given priority when designing a responsive site.
5. Keep the navigation together
Navigation is the lifeline of the majority of your content, the single block that has become uniform across the web is a vital part of many users browsing habits and moving it to the bottom or getting rid of it all together can through many a user and make your site that bit harder to use.
Who is Responsive Design For?
Responsive design is about allowing content to fit with the users preferences, whether the user is browsing through an iPod or HD Tv, the website should present the best possible experience. There are some draw backs however to responsive design. Firstly, consider the guy using his HD Tv, whose viewing area is a huge 52″. Whilst at first this may sound like a brilliant idea, anyone who’s ever tried it knows that in actual fact poorly designed sites simply become unreadable.
Anyone considering designing for a responsive web should remember many of the basic lessons of UX design, line lengths that are readable, line heights that allow for easy moving between lines and letter spacing that helps the eye to flow between letters. These lessons become even more important in responsive web design as the option to abuse them becomes so much simpler to create.
Responsive Design is Here to Stay
Responsive design has both its benefits and pitfalls and anyone considering designing a responsive site would be well advised to read up on the basics of UX design first, remembering a few simple lessons will go a long way. As CSS3 becomes more widespread and sites begin implementing responsive designs it will be interesting to see how they are used by larger corporations and whether it is a technique that will indeed become widely adopted.
Ideal resolution for an image on the web
What do you recommend? Should your web image have a resolution of 72dpi or is it irrelevant as the browser works in pixels and 100 pixels are 100 pixels no matter what dpi you select? What do you think?
You can leave your thoughts or recommendations below, or you can leave your answer on the original question on Answers here: What resolution do you recommend for an image on the web?
What resolution do you recommend for an image on the web?
This question was originally asked by Kevin M..
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Three Kick-Ass Web Developer Tutorials
Sometimes to get your development juices flowing you just need a meaty project or an in-depth tutorial that you can sink your teeth into and lose yourself for a few hours in coding bliss. And that’s what we have for you today, three tutorials that will satisfy your code craving! They are not only roll-up-your-sleeves and put-on-a-pot-of-coffee good but they will also introduce you to some of the latest CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery techniques.
A jQuery, CSS3 & HTML5 Hover-Based Interface
In this awesome tutorial you will learn how to create a useful hover-based user interface using jQuery, CSS3, HTML5 and @font-face. The project you’ll be creating could easily be used for a portfolio or business site and the concepts you’ll learn could certainly be used to expand the idea further.
A jQuery, CSS3 & HTML5 Hover-Based Interface
Dynamic FAQ Section w/ jQuery, YQL & Google Docs
In this tutorial, you will build a dynamic FAQ section. The script, with the help of jQuery & YQL, will pull the contents of a shared spreadsheet in your Google Docs account, and use the data to populate the FAQ section with questions and answers.
Dynamic FAQ Section w/ jQuery, YQL & Google Docs
How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5
For years, Flash was the only solution to display a dynamic chart on a website. But thanks to modern techniques, the dying Flash isn't needed anymore. In this tutorial,you'll be shown how easy it is to transform a basic HTML table into a profesionnal looking chart using visualize.js, a very useful jQuery plugin.
How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).
The Advantages of Using CSS Sprites Along With a Few Tips
There are many techniques in CSS to achieve certain results in different ways, CSS sprites being one of them. CSS sprites is a technique used where you can have a large single image containing a set of images that can be broken down using CSS to separate the image into multiple.
To better understand this concept, let us look at the following example image:
As you see in the example image, there are three top bars of different colors all separated by some whitespace between them. Instead of having each of these bars as individual images, you can join them into one as shown above, and with CSS, you can separate them so they seem as separate images.
Moreover, let us say you just wanted the left and right corners of the blue bar instead of the entire thing for an aspect of your website, using the CSS sprites method, you can do exactly that without the need of creating separate images.
Who Uses CSS Sprites?
Many people have the understanding that most major companies do not like to use certain techniques and would rather use generic methods. However, this is not necessarily true, and in fact, major companies such as Ask.com and Facebook use the sprite technique as it is the smarter to move.
Now that you understand the concept of CSS sprites and how they work, we dive right into four advantages of using CSS sprites along with a few tips on usage.
Cut Back On HTTP Requests
One of the main advantages of using CSS sprites is that it cuts back on HTTP Requests. When a user visits your website, the browser requests the data from the server, by having fewer images you cut back on those requests, which in essence, cuts back on load time as well. Remember, the fewer HTTP Requests, the better, and using this technique is one-step forward.
Saves Time
By merging relative images all into one larger image, you are saving yourself time from creating individual images. Additionally, it also makes it easier for you to locate the images you may want to edit as it may be grouped with others, instead of the need to flip through a basket of files to find what you may have been looking for.
Flexibility
By utilizing CSS sprites, you are giving yourself more flexibility over your website’s design and or layout. For example, if you are not using CSS sprites and you have some gradient bars that you use across your website, grabbing a corner of that bar would mean creating a separate image for the corner and to deal with its hassles.
Instead, by using CSS sprites, you can easily slice the corner you want from the image without modifying the image or creating a new image, giving the flexibility you need while saving time.
Tips
Now that you know the benefits of using CSS sprites, we discuss three tips on improving your CSS “spriting” experience.
Plenty of Space
While it may sound jolly to cram in many images into one to benefit from CSS sprites, it is generally not a good idea to leave small gaps between each image. The reason for this is that sometimes content expands quite a bit which sometimes causes other images to appear within the image you selected from the main image or sprite image, this is caused by having your images close to each other initially in the sprite image. Instead, leave some good spacing between each image to eliminate this issue, even if the images may be icons.
Left to Right, Right to Left
No, we are not talking about languages, but rather image placement in your sprite. If images in your sprite are to be used to the right of an element, place the image to the left of the sprite and vice versa. This helps prevent other images appearing in the background of the image you selected from your sprite, which is usually caused by moving the background image by CSS.
To better understand this concept, let us have a look at the sprite below:
Let us say we wanted to use the green book from the sprite, because we intentionally placed it on the right, we will be using it to the left of an element like so:
Using this concept, if we wanted to use the warning symbol on the left, we would have placed it on the right as well instead of on the left within the sprite.
Repeating Images Should Consume Less Pixels
Many people stick some images intended for repeating across the screen in a sprite. When doing so, there is no reason this repeating image should take much space unless designed in a certain way. With that said, your repeating images should be only a few pixels wide as they will be, well, repeating. This not only saves space within the sprite itself, it also saves bandwidth and indeed, time.
To conclude, using CSS sprites may or may not be the way to go for you as it really depends on the type of application it will be used for. If you are considering using the technique for one of your mainstream websites or services and or for your portfolio site, it will definitely be a great advantage for you to use it accordingly.
One of the key things you need to look at before choosing this technique is what browsers the majority of your users use to visit your website. The reason this question sometimes arises is that it sometimes may be very difficult to make your CSS sprites compatible with many of these browsers depending on the techniques you use.
However, if major companies as mentioned earlier use the CSS sprite technique, it sometimes is a good idea to review how they implemented the idea as they may have found a workaround to have it work across many browsers and platforms. I am not saying you should take their code and implement it on your site, but rather get ideas for your implementation by overlooking what they have done or achieved.
Smart Tips to Help You Create User Friendly Content
A major problem with many new websites today is that their content is geared toward a different topic from what their site initially started up as. For example, let us say a website starts up geared toward gadgets and technology reviews. For the first few months, you are getting exactly what you came for, technology and gadget reviews.
However, as time progresses the reviews begin to widen to internet technologies such as web development, emailing, and the likes immediately.
As a reader, you will not necessarily be interested in reading about web development or emailing as you visit the site for gadget and technology reviews, thus, you will probably begin searching for a new website to call home for your gadget and technology review source. Going back to being a webmaster, we will touch base on six tips that help you produce content geared towards your audience as well as tips to introducing new content away from the initial category or categories.
Content That Meets Your Audience’s Standards
When creating content for your website, you need to make sure it meets your audience’s standards, such as comprehension level, topics in their interest, and the likes. Let us continue with the gadgetry and technology example mentioned earlier. Let us say you own a gadgetry and technology review website and your audience range from teenagers to young adults interested in the technology world.
So for example, the content on your website should be written in a rather casual style without much sophistication based on the information provided about your audience. The content should as well be fully geared towards useful gadgetry and new technologies that your audience can make use of or fit right in their alley.
Due to your targeted audience being a young group in addition to the category you cover, your content should not generally be composed in a business-like manner but rather casual as mentioned earlier. With that said, by approaching your audience in a different monotone than expected, your audience will lose interest in the content and or website altogether.
Complimenting Your Website
Your content should compliment your website, which means that your content should be relevant to and or supplement the topics you cover. Think of your website as the introduction to, or the summary of, a book. The introduction gives the reader a general idea of what to expect throughout the book.
However, if the introduction does not compliment the contents of the book, it leaves the readers unhappy and rather confused about the entire book. Thus, your content should supplement or compliment your website to assure it is user friendly.
Skimmable Content
Most users never read your content thoroughly or completely but rather skim through it to get to where they may find it interesting and applicable to what they were searching for. Furthermore, by breaking down your content into short and understandable paragraphs or bullets, you make it easier for them to find what they were possibly looking for.
Additional enhancements to making your content skimmable are to highlight keywords that may possibly be in their interest or to create separate titles for several topics throughout. For example, let us say you have an article on the top ten friendly dog breeds.
To make the article easier to skim through, you would highlight the ten dog breeds you mention so users can easily find the breed they want to read more about or you can provide a title to each paragraph you mention each individual breed in.
Bloated Content
Your content should flow off the tongue naturally as if you are addressing the viewer personally. What this means is, your content should not be stuffed with “filler text” or bloat in order to address your message, but rather be direct and to the point to keep the readers interested in the topic rather than leave or skim through it due to useless and unneeded text.
Strengthen Your Argument
Whether you are reviewing a product, talking about methods to saving time, or how to properly mow your lawn, they are considered arguments, whether you have intended them to be or not. Arguments need to be backed up by other sources or facts.
A lot of times arguments are backed up by imagery or referencing facts your viewers may have never heard of which causes your reader to sometimes doubt about the contents authenticity or correctness.
Therefore, you should occasionally link to outside sources to back your argument to have your readers assure that your facts were not whipped up in a few minutes, but are rather backed up by other reputable sources. Not only does this strengthen your contents correctness, it also assures users that they have chosen the right place to read about certain topics.
Consistent Voice
From page to page, article to article, quote to quote, you want to assure your voice is consistent throughout your website and not contradictory. If users are finding out that you and your content are falling into contradictions throughout your website, it builds a mental image in your viewers mind that your website is covering topics its editors do not quite fully understand which leads to making your website an untrustworthy source to many.
In order to avoid contradictory content, go back and check the content you currently have that relates to what you want to publish, this assures that your voice is consistent and strong throughout.
While making your content user friendly may sometimes be a tricky challenge, it should be something that comes natural if the topic your website covers is something you enjoy and or experience. Additionally, users always tend to love to throw feedback whenever they can, whether be it on the topics you offer, topics you do not offer, your website layout, or even the frequency of how many times a week you post content or the length of the content.
Moreover, taking your users’ feedback and applying it is the best solution to making your content user friendly and targeted while showing your users that you care about their feedback and that your website is built around them rather than for them.
Using PHP Show Different Content to Visitors From a Specific Country
Our topic for today’s Design Reviver Answers news round-up is a question that was recently asked on PHP. And to be more specific the question was How Do I Show Different Content to Visitors From a Specific Country Using PHP?
Do you have an alternative solution, maybe a fresher technique? You can leave your comment below, or you can leave a your answer on the original question on Answers here
How Do I Show Different Content to Visitors From a Specific Country Using PHP?
This question was originally asked by a Devone, and you will find the best answer below:
The Best Answer came from an Unregistered User:
The Next Answer came from a Pablo G:
Unanswered Answers
That is now five weeks without any unanswered questions!!!
Thanks to everyone who asked a question, but most importantly thanks to everyone that took the time and effort to offer helpful and useful answers.
Round-Up of Fresh jQuery Tutorials
There really is no limit to what can be achieved with jQuery. And when it is in the right hands those limits are challenged all the time, constantly pushing back its seemingly endless boundaries by developing fresh and creative techniques. In this design news round-up we have collected our favorite recent jQuery tutorials.
Super Ajax Polling/Voting System using JQuery, Ajax, PHP and MySQL
Super Ajax Polling/Voting System using JQuery, Ajax, PHP and MySQL →
jQuery Quickie: Slot Machine Style Navigation
jQuery Quickie: Slot Machine Style Navigation →
How To Create A Great Contact Form
How To Create A Great Contact Form →
Music Portfolio Template with HTML5 and jQuery
Music Portfolio Template with HTML5 and jQuery →
A Simple Movie Search App w/ jQuery UI
A Simple Movie Search App w/ jQuery UI →
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).
Achieving Higher Conversion Rates with Your Web Forms
Web forms are used for all different types of data submission, video submitting, contacting, blogging, registering, or for ordering items online. All the forms come in different flavors, large or small, black or white, short or long. Therefore, forms are very important to you and your users, thus, making them just right is the key to increase usage.
Below we cover six tips to improve your forms for better exposure and usability.
Not Too Large, Not Too Small
A major issue with many forms out there is their sizes, many developers or designers try to fit long forms into small spaces, reducing the size of the input boxes greatly making it difficult for users to proofread what they enter. A good ideal size for each input box, which includes large text boxes and the likes, really depends on the amount of data you expect a user to input.
For example, let us say you run a blogging service, you know that blogs can be short or long, thus, giving the textbox a good width and height is really the key. Users want to be able to easily proofread their blog post before it makes it live via the textbox, so fairly large text is also a plus, so they can easily catch typing mistakes or missing punctuation.
JavaScript Effects
A great addition to form textbox fields would be some simple JavaScript effects such as auto expanding features or character counting features, depending on the type of data being imported. Despite these effects sometimes being of no relation to your service or form, users do find them handy, especially if a lot of text is being submitted or edited.
To give a good example of a situation where an effect like this can help, let us look at a forum script. Suppose you are creating a forum script where users will be able to discuss certain topics, as you know, posts can be short or long. If a user’s post happens to be long, scrolling through the textbox is an undesired thing to do, as the user cannot quite view the entire posting. Therefore, providing an auto-expanding effect is quite helpful. As the user’s text gets near the bottom of the textbox, it will automatically expand a few lines, keeping your users satisfied.
Easy to Understand
Many users are turned away from forms that are difficult to work with. Hence, it is a definite must to be clear and precise about the information being collected as if they cannot understand what you need, chances are you will not receive what you needed. Another aspect to look at is just because it may be understandable to you, does not mean it will be understandable to your audience. Therefore, it is in your best interest to ask for feedback on understandability of your forms.
Not Too Much, Not Too Little
Another key aspect that causes users to turn away from completing your forms is that your forms ask for too much information. Users want to be completing the form to continue rather than spend the time filling them out. Thus, it is key for you to keep your forms as short as possible. For example, if your form is a registration form to an online service, leaving account settings whether optional or not out of the registration forms makes the form look shorter and easier to fill out increasing the chances of user registrations.
Moreover, leave the information you do not need immediately out of the form, and have them choose to enter the information later at their own leisure or when it becomes necessary. If the information that you may taken out is absolutely necessary within a few days of signing up, have them fill the information out a day later, such as when they sign back in, you can easily prompt them to fill the information out before continuing. This splits the lengthy form into two easy to fill and understand forms, keeping them happy.
A Simple Uncluttered Design
The design of a form additionally impacts the users experience. Your users do not want to bounce back and forth to get to each form field in order; they want to be able to easily fill the fields sequentially without trouble. Therefore, the design for the form should be as simple as possible leaving the fields easily accessible in the order intended.
Understandable Security Measures
While users understand security measures applied to forms help prevent spam, they also do not want to struggle to complete a form. With that said, complex spam prevention tools such as CAPTCHA images cause less completed form submissions from frustrated users. I myself have left many forms that I had intended to fill out due to their hard to work with security measures. Thus, as a developer or creator, creativity is what is needed to avoid the spammers but not the users.
Many new ideas and techniques have become apparent such as mathematical questions, slider prevention systems, as well as others. My personal favorite that I found very intuitive and easy to use is a drag and drop security measure. The user simply drags a shape requested from a palette of shapes right into the shape box, if you selected the requested shape, the form will submit. As it is simple and easy to use, your users will enjoy playing with the tool, as well as keep spammers out of the way.
To Conclude
Overall, getting your users to complete your form is a process that requires thought and ingenuity. With that said, creating a form is easy, but getting it properly designed, formed, and well laid out is tricky however an attainable aspect, but if it is done correctly, it can rewarding. To conclude, keep your forms as simple as possible and as down to the point as it can possibly get.
Ask around for feedback about the design and layout for whether the form can be easily filled out, whether it is easy to understand, and if it is easy to follow. Improve your form accordingly, and it would be ready to hit mainstream.