Showing and Hiding different parts of a web form

[MacNoobie]

Greetings Web Wizards,

I'm stuck here a little bit, I'm designing my first web site for a couple @ http://www.shotmakersphotography.com and the people want me to redesign their online form. Right now when customers go and use the form they have to enter there info in for the events they want. My clients asked me if we could make a way for the form to remember certain info when people fill out the form so later on they can come back and have things filled out already. The other thing is my clients want people to be able to enter in possibly how many Golf Tournaments they have planned and other things like ski events and trips and what not. Basically I'm looking for a way to get the form to remember details about people, which I'm thinking cookies but I know cookies are now becoming intrusive and bothersome in this day and age. Also the form I wouldn’t mind having it ask people well what kind of form are you filling out and if they use checkboxes to select a golf tournament and a trip lets say then it would display just those form elements.

I've seen on Apple developer they had one where depending on the selection they had forms pop up and disappear, the problem I have is it cant use layers since I don’t know of a way to display them in the center even if someone’s browser is resized.

I just need maybe a few pointers on how to go about making this form remember certain details (either in a cookie or some other way) and for sections of the form to resize depending on which sections are shown or hidden.

Thank you,
Thomas

 

[angelneo]

for the hidden and visible form items, I have always used javascript to dynamically turn on and off form layers visibility. Resizing using javascript as well.

As for remembering form items, I guess the best would be to use cookie.