Hi Jayson, I did a quick bit of googling and found this article http://www.webusability.co.uk/2009/dont-put-search-in-a-search-box/ unfortunately it doesn't give empirical evidence for their claim and so you can't really take it as gospel.
In terms of styling, just be careful not to style it too much, if it no longer resembles a textbox it will have the reverse effect. There are countless articles on search form design, referring to consistent placement, size of textfield, search goals and search strategies etc the Luke Wroblewski (as recommended above) presentation pretty much covers it all. Hope this is of some help Graham Sear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from ixda.org (via iPhone) http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48953 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
