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Form Assembly review 2

Fri Mar 10 2006 13:33 MST #

The people at FormAssembly wrote me in regards to my last blog entry on them, which I think is great. I was planning on emailing them, but I guess Google worked some indexing magic. And they've already made changes that fix some of my complaints.

Anyway, I want to say again how much I luv FormAssembly.com.

A wish: Since I am making so many forms with their site, I wish that I could save the Javascript and CSS files in separate folders. What I would like is to have the option to specify the path to the css and js: for example, to have them in a directory called "Spreadsheet-Generator" or perhaps even to have them named spreadsheet-generator.js instead of their standard wforms.js.

Right now I just move them into directories, but then I have to update the paths in the HTML myself.

Also that it would remember my preference to host the form myself would be nice - it looks like it always defaults to hosting at FormAssembly.

One bug: When I make pull-down lists with different options, if i choose that an option should be automatically-selected by default, all the future ones I make also are selected. So there are multiple things selected by default using radio buttons, which is telling me that each radio button has a different name. But mostly annoying cause you cannot UNSELECT an item in the list. Once it is selected, you are stuck with it. i've attached a picture which makes it clear what I am trying to say here.

Anyway, i must reiterate, if you need an HTML form for a web page, don't do it yourself, go try out formassembly.com. It is really great too for people who don't want to parse form results, because they let you view form responses on their web page or in RSS. Great entry-level form processing.

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