a LARGE search box is needed on 1st page

[duah55]

a LARGE search box is needed on 1st page

[yellow]

On the main Hints page? Or on the first Forums page?
Why large?

[duah55]

on ALL pages,cause ol farts r goin blind!!!!!!!!

[yellow]

Originally posted by duah55
on ALL pages,cause ol farts r goin blind!!!!!!!! LOL. I didn't think old farts wrote like teenagers in chat rooms! :)

The forums have a pretty large Search Page (http://forums.macosxhints.com/search.php?s=).

Or you could consider reducing your screen resolution to increase size at the expense of on-screen real estate.

[mclbruce]

yellow, duuude, i agre with duah55 :-)

Seriously, I think giving the search button a little more prominence and size is a good idea. It wouldn't hurt to have the search field up there as well. Lots of sites do that.

[griffman]

Putting a search box on the page itself would require some work ... I'm not saying it's not a good idea, just that I'm not sure exactly how much work is required -- I'll have to dig through the vBulletin code to see how they build their search box, and then try to replicate that on the homepage.

Regarding making it bigger, again I agree in principle but I'd also then have to probably make all the buttons bigger, and that might then require a different layout for the header.

All good ideas; I'm just not sure when I'll be able to get to them...

-rob.