I seem to have a thing for login pages..
For this one I really just wanted to try out some of the stuff I was learning at treehouse.
I also wanted to solve the problem I sometimes have when I fill out forms where the label is located inside the actual input. If I am in the middle of filling out my username/email and I get distracted for some reason, when I come back I am not sure if I was suppose to be filling out an "email" or "username" because the label disappears. Now the user gets some reassurance, with a small popout when he or she starts filling out one of the fields.
will probably add some actual client side validation soon, still learning!