I'm discovering that he "paid" plugin Gravity Form has an absolutely wonderful interface -- it's actually FUN to go in to change a function, add a new line/field, etc!!
When I asked the Gravity folks about how to "style" the generated forms to "best blend" with the look and feel of my site I received the following:
BTW: Gravity offers "expedited support" to their customers (ie. people who've paid for their plugin) so my info request was "sent" via a plain "Contact Us" form. Despite that, Carl Hancock's response to me via email was very speedy! Full marks for having good "not-yet-a-customer-service"
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:14:29 AMMy question: How do I translate "...copy the CSS from the plugin's stylesheet and place it in your themes CSS file and then turn off the CSS output in the plugin so that only the CSS from your theme is used." into Atahualpa Options?
From: Carl Hancock <carl@rocketgenius.com>
Hello Jim,
Right now in order to do that what you would want to do is copy the CSS from the plugin's stylesheet and place it in your themes CSS file and then turn off the CSS output in the plugin so that only the CSS from your theme is used.
Then you can update and change the CSS all you want without touching the source CSS file.
By keeping the changes with your theme rather than the plugin, it prevents any issues of your changes being overwritten by future upgrades to the plugin. It also means less CSS files being called on the page which is good for performance.
Thanks! Carl Hancock
Jim