> "As a matter of best practice, should forms on the web be > designed to look like their paper equivalents? Why/why not?"
There's a fair bit of interpretation for that wording; but my high level response would be "web pages should be designed as web pages". The question has a definite air of things people worry about when they are transitioning print skills to the online space. The obvious concept people tend to come around to is that print and the web are different; and both should be designed for their purpose and according to best practice for the medium. There should be consistent design cues, ie. use a similar colour scheme (print colours often don't translate directly to screen colours), use the same general branding and so forth. If you hold up the paper next to the screen, you should be able to tell they are from the same source, but they do not need to look exactly the same (in fact I think it's unlikely that making them look exactly the same would be a good idea). cheers, Ben -- --- <http://weblog.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
