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Sorry I didn't get back sooner... Yep that's exactly what I had in mind. I was debating either customizing blocks or stacking them... (where one block would be the title and description of content in the block below.)
What I'd like more than anything is the ability to ad a chunk of html... If it has to be in a frameset that's fine but my preference would be able to add some content (text, image, whatever) formatted the way I want. Most often it would probably just be "<p>here are my three lines of text</p>" but there are times when I might want a table or a list or an image or all of the above. 
BTW I went back into the form and drag and drop stopped working ... no blue arrows or moving items items the product list or moving items (fields/framesets) on the form designer page. I switched form and still no go. I closed the tab and opened a new admin tab and it worked again.... (this was in chrome... my preferred browser) 



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I swear i tried doing that for an hour (yes I exaggerate... good thing I'm not a news anchor) in chrome and it would not work....  (edit.) dragging and dropping the products in the product list... It would act like it wanted to highlight the text and I wouldn't get the blue arrows our to the side.

read your post so I open it up in firefox and bam works fine 
must be a browser thing so I try chrome again and it works fine...
I have noticed that in general dragging and dropping elements on the page seems to work consistently in firefox but is occasionally problematic in chrome
I have in the past laid out what really should be text / html / images as a single image and then stuck that in the form so it would look the way I wanted... 

And just so you know I do appreciate you guys... The fact that I said "Any monkey can put together a form in less than an hour." really is a tribute to the fact to form designer works and is a lot more intuitive than it used to be. I just wish the was way for some of us trained monkeys to do a little more with it.
While I'm on a roll... The cms allows you to drag and drop to reorder items in a list in numerous locations... (think list of child assets)... why can't I reorder the list of products in the product widget?
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it's the form that led to the rant that led to the ticket where the response was "There's no way to do that" ... Not even an attempt by your tech to upsell us to a custom form. (ticket 575660 )
(Note I could do it as a custom form or even as a perform form, I just don't have the time) 

  • I have html in the label field of the product widget... It gives me an error that the label is too long in the cms but it works.
  • the background is done in css
  • I hate that the user has to check off a product AND set a quantity... would be so much easier for them if they just choose 
  • HTML in the product description
  • Because the total does not calculate on page I included an empty frameset with text "You order total will be calculated and presented on the next screen. Your credit card will not be charged until you have confirmed your order information there."  --- and YES if I don't we will get phone calls from people upset that we want to charge their credit card before giving them a total. 
  • Another empty frameset at the end of the form with "No refunds, no exchanges, not responsible for lost or stolen tickets, tickets must be presented at door for entry into cooking show."
  • I would have loved to have been able to setup two shipping methods (Pick Up, and US Mail) and enter the shipping cost for each method into each product. Then have a single drop down on the form for "Delivery Method:"
As I explained to our advertising director... Any monkey can setup a form in the form designer in less than an hour. However if I'm going to custom code an html or perform form, it's going to take significantly longer and I'm going to have to do it myself so how much time/money do you want to devote to a form that's only going to be live for a month.
To be honest the designer is much better than it used to be it's just so easy to bump into its limitations.