Archive for the ‘Forms’ Category
Website Roundup February 18th, 2011
www.asteral.com | www.london-bathrooms.co.uk
Not much to report this month i’m afraid, it’s far too early in the year for anything exciting. Plus our central heatings been on the blink since before Christmas and I find it hard to motivate myself when i’m freezing cold. Work wise i’m not doing anything postable sadly due to the nature of the new job – although I’m currently working on my first mobile web app so hopefully i’ll be able to put up a link to that at some point.
Anyway – with that in mind i’m posting a couple of sites i’ve worked on that have gone live recently. The first one is the Asteral web site which i completed just before I left The Crocodile and which, for some reason, has only recently gone live.
The Asteral site is built in Expression Engine and incorporates 3 levels of navigation, which was quite tricky to acheive. It also utilises the indispensible Freeform plugin to incorporate a contact form and newsletter sign-up.
The second site is a smaller site I designed and built for a London based Bathroom company (called, fittingly, London bathrooms). I also created the London Bathrooms logo, which featured in a recent post.
This is a fairly standard small site with information about the company, some work samples and testimonials and a contact form. Which you should definately use if you need a Bathroom fitted in London (or the surrounding area).
Since spring is already in the air I’m hoping the next post will be a total break from the norm and be about the landscaping of my garden which I started last year and which ground to a halt over winter. Not just a one trick pony!
Anyway, it’s been a pleasure as always.
jQuery form validation plugin November 15th, 2010
So in my last post I promised something scripty and here it is – my first attempt at a jQuery plugin. Some of you might remember a previous post of mine concerning JavaScript form validation – I used this as the base to build my jQuery plugin. It does much of the same sort of validation but it’s much easier to implement, can be used on multiple forms, on the same page with different settings and has several different methods of alerting the user to validation fails. The two forms below show some of it’s features in action and you can download the files for a more in depth look.
Form 1
Form 2
The files include the plugin as well as a sample HTML form. Feel free to download and use - but if you do it would be nice if you left the credits in the JS file as they are.
This is currently version 1.0 and as I use this in my own work I'll probably be expanding the functionality and improving it over time so do watch for updates. Also if you have any functionality requests or suggestions for improvement, or if you make any improvements yourself, please let me know.
Javascript forms – textarea word count April 5th, 2010
Happy Easter loyal readers (or possibly reader). Here’s a nice simple piece of JavaScript that counts down the number of words remaining in a restricted text field as you type. When you hit your limit and the counter hits zero you will no longer be able to type any words untill you delete some. There is no restriction here on characters and words are defined by spaces only. The example below shows it in action.
Textfield is limited to 50 words.
words remaining: 50
File’s attached as usual here – so download them, use them and together we can make HTML forms fun! (as long as you don’t have JavaScript disabled…)
Javascript form validation December 14th, 2009
Quite an old one this, but I don’t want to lose momentum so i’m posting it for want of anything else. This is a good old fashioned form validation script. It’s faily customisable and uses alerts to indicate missing information. It also focuses on and highlights the relevant field. The zip file contains the javascript and a sample HTML form so you can see it in place. Enjoy.
