Search Box Inspiration
Posted by admin, 1 Year, 1 Month, 1 Week, 6 Days, 13 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
Search boxes are an important way of enabling users to find the content they want in your site. The search box needs to be clearly visible.. and straight forward to use.
Placement
The trend these days seems to be to have the search box in the top-right hand side of a webpage. The search box is usually part of the header so that it is available on every sub-page of a website. Usability studies seem to indicate that the upper-right or upper-centre of a webpage is good for usability.
Design
Here are a few search boxes from a variety of sites. I will add more as I find them.
Apple
Web Designers Wall
Larissa Meek
Tutorial Blog
Smashing Magazine
ilovecode
WebAppers
Veerle's Blog
Digg
EzzyEnough
Virb
Veoh
Cruxy
ThisNext
SwapTree
StyleHive
PartyStrands
Excites
ClipMarks
iLike
Search Results
Once a user has searched, we do not want to bombard them with thousands of search results. In general a max of 50 search results should be shown on a single page - any more than that and we should paginate the search results.
The user should also be able to refine their search from the search results page.
Comments (5)
It is important to simple for search bar. Like IBM.com, search tool is embed in the title bar. search in the website is a tool to us. So, more easy, more well.
thanks kadir for pointing that out - fixed.
Thanks for the link to ilovecode. I'm glad you like the search box :)
very nice, i'm install it already
