A Review of Search Bar by Jonathan Butko

If we were to show all of the important information our site would be completely cluttered and overwhelming. We have a ton of content on the site and need to keep the general navigation and look clean and simple. My main concern is highlighting the search bar, not nesecarily the quick links. Thanks just the same for the feedback.

I do have to give credit where credit is deserved. The original site design was done by Synergema (www.synergema.com).

I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on that one.

If a goal of UX/UI and information architecture are to simplify wayfinding and provide a framework for guidance why wouldn't you cluster information into high level topics... give them ability to find their way up front - similar to what your quicklinks seem to do.

Maybe it is because I am not a user of the site, but how am I to search for something that I may not even know exists... how would I know where to start when i could simply be presented with high level information to lead me down a path? Why should I have to work for that?

If visual simplicity is getting in the way of functionality what good is it?

You have some good thoughts Jonathan, but unfortunately don't have the larger picture of what the client wants here. Not saying that I don't appreciate your feedback, because I do, but it would take me a long time to go into detail here. There are many reasons why we don't want to add all the important links on the front of the website. When you are dealing with a church, a lot of ideas that work on other sites don't work for a church site. I will take some these thoughts into account as I move forward though.

Again, please don't get the idea that I don't want your feedback. This is great and exactly what I was looking for, thanks for taking the time to think through this critically!

Fair enough sir. I appreciate the dialogue.

Me too, thanks again!