A Review of Search Bar by Alex O

make your quick links a footer!

  • Alex O

    Alex O

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    make your quick links a footer!

    Posted on Mar 04, 2010 at 1:34 PM

    You do a better job of highlighting the search box on this page than on the current page, however it could be highlighted even more. Suggestions:

    • Make the search box color lighter

    • Change the arrow to a magnifying glass or GO button and make this new button a contrasting color

    • Make the search box wider

    • Consider moving Switch Campus to another area of the site

    On another note, I hate to harp on the point as I know you've received a lot of comments about it, but I have to agree with the other reviewers that the footer is the perfect place for the links in your Quick Links section.

    You say your target market is people currently going to the church. If that's the case, they won't be overwhelmed by the amount of links. In fact, they may welcome the opportunity to browse through some of the offerings and pages they might not have known about before. The footer is the perfect place for that.

    You have a very strong divider between the body and the footer. I think you'd actually be increasing usability by adding those links.

    Just my two cents :-)