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Adding search to your site

Adding search to your site

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Adding search to your site

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- On most internet sites, visitors are split about half and half between preferring to use the navigation menus and preferring to use a search box. The more content a site has, the more likely visitors are to use search. Mobile device users often favor search over navigation given how much harder it is to interact with smaller screens. So make sure that your search feature is easily accessible to people from every page of your site. The standard design for a search feature is to have an empty unlabeled field with a button to its right called search or with a magnifying glass icon. The action verb search on the button removes the need for a field label. On more constrained interfaces, the evolving standard is to show a search button, often just the magnifying glass icon that animates out into a search field when it's tapped. The standard location for the search field is the top right hand corner of the page. If for some reason you can't put it there, the next most common location is at…

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