ad5qa - 3:38 pm on Mar 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

I am looking for the best practice for usability in webforms for formatting phonenumbers, addresses, and names.

Most of our users will be US or Canada but 10% may be from overseas. Is there a website or can you share tips on developing forms. Our backend is oracle ad each feild is a string, but I want it to be familiar and a standard in the presentation layer.

I was thinking besides validation client and server to have the form set up like:

[first] [middle] [last]
[address 1]
[adress 2]
[city] [state] [zip]

[international county] <--- What would this be? County/area not sure but I know there is a correct name for this

phone [###][###][####]

Is there any other important country fields I need to capture? Or should I leave the phone to be [##########] or [###-###-####]?

Any examples or suggestions? I am sure others will benefit in this?

Thanks,

Tom