I revisited some areas of the form layout since this is probably one of the portions of the GUI that a user will spend most of their time seeing within 301tool. In v1.1.x, there was the point brought up by one user who said that having the “?” icon to the right of the field left him feeling like he had to go on an easter egg hunt for it for each field.
Which was true in a way, since not every field was the same size, and it was actually placed in a different position for different types of fields. Here’s what 301tool v1.1.x uses:
Another drawback to this design was how field errors were handled. They didn’t wrap very well if they were long message, plus they were a bit ugly.
So, taking all these things into consideration, and after a bit of testing and moving things around, I arrived at this for 301tool 2.0:
I’ll probably tweak things some more, but for the most part, this is what you would expect to see for the layout of some of the forms.
