Re: Form text field - alternate display look

by "Art Zoller Wagner" <art(at)zollerwagner.com>

Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:28:46 -0500
To:	<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>, "Jim Haslam" <jim(at)haslam.com>
References:	Haslam
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Hi, Jim,

Hmm. Ovals? This client is looking for the refinements of print design,
aren't they?! I usually tell my clients that the Web isn't as finely tunable
as print media. The snazzy look I get on the Web is different than what I
might try in print.

As far as I know, textarea and input boxes in forms are pretty hard to
format. I've changed background colors and the fonts (in some, Netscape 4
was very hard/impossible to work with).

If you want fancy things, you may want to try using php or some other
server-side scripting to create the data and format it. Then you could
present the text over backgrounds pretty easily. Since you're doing search,
you must have some sort of server-side scripting, don't you?

Most of my designs avoid heavy use of images because of the hit in download
time and the cost of server bandwidth.

Art

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