Wanting On-Line Forms To Inspire Small Businesses

This is a project created by Amanda and myself to demonstrate the use of "forms" in Website applications. Our intent was to take a menu from a made-up Pizza Parlor and transform it into an Online Order Form. This is the way the Menu turned out:



We had to use another Web Host to get the info from the form to "push" down from the server. Unfortunately the Web Host we used insists on using Pop-Up ad's. Hence the free webspace. Nevertheless, we still produced the Form which will make it easier to duplicate in future projects.

Much like another project I was working on recently, this Online Form was again utilized to receive employee applications. This Form allows companies to post ad's either to the local newspapers/periodicals and also receive it's own traffic in the way of people searching for work in the local area:




Many advantages are sure to be appreciated from this user-friendly Web Design. The first thing I noticed in a management position, was that your time is constantly being consumed. No matter how you institute the 'cattle-call' which will bring people to apply to your business, you are either bombarded by phone calls or better yet meeting with people that you may not have otherwise wanted to meet just yet. I found several applicants to be extremely composed and esteemed which seemed to be a good precursor to the candidates expected behavioral performance. The unfortunate part turned out to be that there was usually always some underlying issue buried in their background which disqualified them for the position. A good portion of these applicants tried as hard as they could to ascertain as much conversation time as possible, which in most cases would not have been necessary, therefore wasting valuable time.

The Online Application for Employment was originally created as a measure to curve the influx of diverse applicants. It almost guarantees your candidate will have preinitialized computer skills. My ultimate goal was to direct all of the company's incoming information into a sortable and archived database that was completely stored on-line. This prevented the chance that data could end up lost on a crashed hard drive or only available from one computer, with on-line storage you can literally access company information from anywhere, even mobile browsers. Mobile phones are constantly getting new types of communications functions, this allows you to not only be notified of new information posted, it also allowed users out in the field to enter information directly to the database making it easier on everyone involved. This measure eliminates many instances where 2nd and 3rd party data-entry has to be completed. Great precautions were taken to decide what information may have been too sensitive to risk storing on-line. All in all though, the whole merge was extremely easy and eliminated reams of paper use every quarter. Cutting back the use of paper and ink was important strategy to me because of the ability to flaunt the Go Green benefits that come from eliminating paperwork, but the entire experience gave birth to new ideas that are asuredly still in production...

-PATCAM