Bill Napier Design

smashing magazine now offers a great collection of links to CSS-based forms.

They note with Web 2.0 registration and feedback forms are everywhere. Because they are the first contact from your company to the consumer (your potential customer) they need to be well-designed, in addition to be easy to use.

They showcase a number of “modern” solutions that a company or web designer can use. One browser based solution is jotForm in which you can actually design and stylize your form inside of your browser. Pretty cool for non-developers.

Last week, I viewed a GREAT Acrobat online session on Apollo hosted by Mike Chambers, Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations at Adobe. (Actually, I picked up the link from Mike Potter’s blog.)

According to Adobe, “Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop.”

Apollo is similar to the Flash stand alone player. That is probably the best way I can describe it initially. It runs as a stand alone environment. And uses all the technologies listed above both while on and off line.

To learn more about Apollo, visit Adobe Labs, ApolloDeveloperFAQ.