The Wufoo Form Gallery

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28 points·brett··12 comments

The cartoonish font and color scheme remind me of Team Fortress 2 (the typeface looks very similar to what TF2 uses). I like.

I also like how apparently to make a color theme you only have to choose 5 colors. The programmer-y decision is to let the user have full control and make them make dozens of decisions they didn't anticipate.

Ditto. The standard overly shiny Web 2.0 look is getting old but this cartoonish adds some new life to it.

Pretty cool. Although it's a little jarring to see the mortgage form ask for a loan amount in dollars and cents. I've heard of microcredit, but...

Any free open source javascript form builders like Wufoo's out there? I'd love to get one for Utility Mill.

Nothing that is as polished as to what WuFoo's done. Which is why they charge and people are willing to pay for it.

They wrote over 10 KLOC of straight JavaScript (in addition to all the backend serverside stuff), so you're right, they'd be insane not to charge.

They should license it to other websites perhaps.

Awesome, do you have any idea what language their app was written in? (server side)

It's written in PHP. http://particletree.com/features/web-app-autopsy/

Thankies! For some reason I just get a kick outta these guys. Love em.

This is really neat. A web form to accept party invitations? That's not a bad idea at all.

In addition to everything else, this is great marketing!

Don't understand our concept? Look at what others have done with it.

Chances are you will find something there that will strike a nerve.

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