What's the best way to highlight a required field on a web form?

Question

I don\'t find the oft-used \"*\" to be very nice looking - can anyone suggest a nicer-looking method or point me to an example?

I tried making the field highlighted

Answer 1

Generally speaking, the best web forms are the simplest ones that require me to think the least. The "standard" that has evolved is that required fields have an asterisk (*) next to them. Sometimes the asterisk is red to help it stand out a bit.

Why fight the standard? Don't make your users think too much. Go with the standard and keep your creativity for more important things.