Web Form Design

[mandy]

Smasing Magazine has a 2 part article on designing web forms for your website:

If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is not enough to simply enable users to sign up on your site. To make it possible for the service to reach a maximal exposure we, designers, need to provide users with a good user experience. We need to invite them, describe to them how the service works, explain to them why they should fill in the form and suggests the benefits they’ll get in return. And, of course, we should also make it extremely easy for them to participate...

part 1: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/...-up-forms/
part 2:  http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/...ms-part-2/