Posts tagged ‘forms’

My talk from The AJAX Experience

by Josh Fraser on January 19, 2010

Back in September 2008 I had the privilege of speaking at The AJAX Experience in Boston. I talked about designing great forms and covered a lot of my own pet-peeves with forms on the web and shared some of the things I've learned along the way. Today ...

Tags: design, forms, video 2 Comments »

Auto detect a time zone with JavaScript

by Josh Fraser on June 8, 2007

This blog post will attempt to explain how to automatically detect your user's time zone using JavaScript. If you're in a hurry, you can skip directly to the demo or just grab the files index.html detect_timezone.js Previous attempts to solve ...

Tags: code, forms, javascript, timezones, tutorial 114 Comments »

How to build great forms

by Josh Fraser on May 18, 2007

Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit". What many people don't realize is that excellence isn't achieved at the macro level. You don't reach excellence by making one great decision. Instead, you ...

Tags: design, forms, tutorial, user experience 1 Comment »

Hi. I'm Josh.

I'm the CEO of Torbit which is a service that can automatically speed up your website. I enjoy solving interesting problems, coding, public speaking and playing outdoors. I previously founded EventVue. This is my blog where I share what I'm learning about life, entrepreneurship and software development. read more »