Database page design

[abathor]

This is my first ever foray into asp.net, working with c#, sql, html, xhtml and css. It is basically a small sql database that can be interacted with through a web browser, using c# as the coding language, and xhtml, html, and css for the look and layout.

It's all working fine as far as I can tell from testing, but I'm wondering what people's opinions are on the look and layout. At the moment it's very basic, but I'm thinking maybe less is more here. I don't want to overload the user's eyes with too much flashy content. Maybe someone could suggest what they'd like to see colour-scheme wise, or maybe they'd do the layout differently.

Please be gentle with me as this is my first ever web project!

[dissonance]

This will help you with color: http://kuler.adobe.com/
Or, if you're using Linux: http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/downloads.shtml

These are also awesome resources when it comes to lighting levels or coloring textures.

[904]

Here are some thoughts/suggestions:

• Generally speaking I like the sans-serif fonts better, this looks very nineties
• I'd suggest playing around in the css with spacing in general and the properties of the boxes. If those don't look indented, it's even more pleasing and calm to the eye.
• The order of the buttons: I would have Add, Update, Delete and then previous & next. Thy to replace 'Record' with 'Customer' or 'Employee' or 'Order', in that way it's always clear what data one's manipulating.
• I would assume that the customer ID is the primary key (auto_incrementing) in your database, It should therefore be unchangeable, which means you shouldn't be able to fill it in on this form.
• Title is often a dropdown box, to avoid people putting in all sorts of random stuff there..
• No E-mail address field?
• Make sure you validate input in your backend before you insert it into a database

[abathor]

Thanks for your input guys, those are some vary good ideas! I shall being implementing them immediately!