When listening to Boagworld's podcast some weeks ago I heard about the Fancy Form Design book from SitePoint. Since Paul Boag recommended it I thought, well, give it a try. And yes, I think it's a nice book, indeed. I like it because it gives the reader new ideas on how to design and implement modern forms.

So being inspired after reading the book I looked at my own "Your comment" form and thought: "OMG! WTF?" I have to admit I never really spent much time on designing and implementing the form. But after reading the book I though it was about time to give my comment form a little bit of love. During the process of revamping the form I also digged deeper into the world of jQuery which is a good thing imho. I even wrote my first little plugin that handles an example value on form fields like this:

$("#id_author").fancyField({sampleValue: "Joe Cool"});

It will automatically setup everything like registering for focus() and blur() and even registering on the enclosing form tag for the submit event. Anyway, have a look at the form for yourself to get the idea :)