Hi Troy
If you haven’t already, you might try searching for “web form builder” (or
“html5 form builder”, etc.). Some of the results will be for hosted solutions
(submissions go through their servers), but there should be some that will just
help you create more “modern-looking” forms and then let you copy the generated
html (w/ or w/o css &/or javascript).
On a separate note, if you’re looking for something (per your original email)
"with intermediate portions of data saved and acted on”, why is it important
that it be "all without reloading the page”? If you’re envisioning some kind
of “Next” buttons in your interface, could they each just be actual Submit
buttons, creating or editing records throughout the process?
Best,
-Joel
On Apr 11, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Troy Meyers <tcmeyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Chris and Bev!
I've checked these out. I'm not a complete newbie to JavaScript, I've written
some of my own for form validation and enough to use a few jQuery-based
tricks, but still there is a big learning curve ahead for me just to get a
animated, single-page, AJAX-based step by step interview form up and running.
If it were a case where I'd be designing these a whole lot, the time spent
would be well worth it, but unlike you guys who are pros, and I think
similarly to Jon, I'm just a do-it-yourselfer with just one or two websites,
and my plate is already full with the real work of the company (propagating
orchids) and the FileMaker end of information gathering of the research we
are doing.
The jargon is so deep at this point that I don't even know how to find what I
need, or know if I'm already looking at it!
I'm leaning toward getting someone who already knows what they are doing to
design a skeleton of that kind of interface so that I can flesh it out with
what I already know how to do well.
Budget is a big problem (which is why I have to wear many hats here) so I
don't know if getting something like that designed is within our means,
though.
Any suggestions about who could do such a thing? Or, who has done such a
thing that I could tap for expertise? Or a template.
-Troy
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