Form Sample Looks

[Hmadyson]

Does anyone have a link to a place with really good looking forms? I have an entire application created, but the look of my forms is lacking creativity.

I am also running into a problem where I have too many buttons on a form. I think that a form menu would be best, but then I will have to roll my own. What have other people done to solve this problem? 2 ideas that I had was to use a dropdown to show all of the different actions, but that looks bad. I also thought that I could have one button that pops up another form with all of the buttons, but that doesn't seem too good either because you have to open the other form to figure out what you can and cannot do.

Thanks for your help.

 

[JeremyNYC]

For the look of your forms, check out the options dialog box of any microsoft application. I use this as the model for all of my forms, at least in theory. I do aim to have my forms be simple, more than creative. I wince every time I see Access forms with background pictures, etc. My notion is that my application should be relatively unnoticed by a user performing a task. I want as little flash as possible, and as much functionality.

Also, if you have that many buttons, you may well be cramming too much onto a form. Do you have a website where you can post a screen shot of the form? It might be easier to start from there.

Jeremy

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