Now there’s a headline for you! Below’s an excerpt from Chapter 13 of Luke Wroblewski’s forthcoming book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (Rosenfeld Media, 2008). And the excerpt is an excellent read for what it’s worth.

I’ll just come out and say this: sign-up forms must die. In the introduction to this book I described the process of stumbling upon or being recommended to a web service. You arrive eager to dive in and start engaging and what’s the first thing that greets you? A form.

We can do better. In fact, I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step.

Read the full article at A List Apart.

It has to be my greatest peeve when it comes to working with online content - the words “click here”. It’s a terrible practice, and apart from the fact it looks ugly, it’s even more redundant when it’s printed on paper and search engines will effectively ignore the content that sits behind it.

Tim Berners-Lee tells you not to. Our buddy Jakob says it’s bad form. You should too.

Understand more on why using “click here” is a poor practice.