We are very proud to have come 17th in the Deloitte Fast 50 awards and when the winner’s list for the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 was announced on the 24th of November, we were delighted to find out we ranked 58th out of 500! This is a fantastic achievement as the list covers companies based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa – it’s a testament to all the hard work everyone here is putting in!

Colin attended the event and received our very shiny award… next time we’ll send him with a bag so that he doesn’t have to carry it half way across London – it’s actually very heavy!

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I was carrying up the Shredding & Recycling box from downstairs this morning, and when I put it down it made a rather large gash in my trousers. Never mind – gaffer tape can easily fix small problems like this!

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I’ve just written an article on my own blog with regards to form conversion, and thought it’d be appropriate to post it here on the Netbasic blog too! I quote:

It is absolutely critical when developing a form that must convert well to accept pretty much anything in the form. For example if I want to write “15,000? or even “£15,000? in the amount box for my insurance, then let me! Don’t tell me it’s wrong, because it isn’t.

So here’s a big hint to form developers on business-critical forms that must convert well: don’t be lazy – let the customer enter whatever they like, and try and interpret the data the best you can. Even better – if you can’t truly determine what the user has entered, provide some feedback.

The issue here is that automated handling of data is never going to be as accurate as a real person checking over things. When validating form fields, we need to do the best job we can to make what the user has entered into something that we understand, and not just throw a wobbly if we can’t understand it – as I say in the original article, provide some useful feedback to the customer and help them out as much as possible!

Click here to read the original article.

conversion, form, validation