I am a form-over-function guy. I pride myself on making things look better than they did before. I design things. I do it for a living. I also have recently realized that there are some things designers (me) tend to over do. But, when it comes to the web-form, functionality is king.
Forms are ugly. Really, we’re talking about boxes you put type in with little labels. I used to strive to find ways to make them crazy and cool and unique, then I read a book that totally changed my view of web-forms and hopefully will change yours too. Everyone hop on over to Rosenfeld and get Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski. This book will totally change the way you approach those mundane web-forms also know as sign-ups and checkout processes. Learn to love the form. I know I have.
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Hollar! That book is awesome, @lukew knows his stuff.