For such a simple user interface element the search box is an important point of user interaction on a website. In order to be effective, the search box should be easily visible, in a location consistent with other websites, and with enough space for the user to enter their query and still read it.
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Elements of Design is a collection of UI components that highlight best practices for particular design patterns from leading websites around the world. Browse the archives and use it as a source of inspiration for your next web design project.
Tooltips Design Gallery
A tooltip is a dialog box that displays when you hover your cursor over a web page element such as a hyperlink. It provides additional information about that element. JavaScript tooltips and JQuery tooltips are popular solutions for delivering this functionality, along with enabling the visual presentation of the tooltip to be customized.
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Blog Comments Design Gallery
Thanks to the rise of social media, blogs are no longer the discussion forums they used to be a few years ago. A well-designed blog comments section made the experience of reading through the discussion of an article a visually pleasing experience. This collection pulls together some of the best examples from around the web.
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Online Coupons Design Gallery
Designing online coupons is not simply an exercise in creativity. A good online coupon campaign can attract new customers, bring back existing customers, and sell large quantities of products far cheaper than a large scale ad campaign. Therefore it is essential to follow good design and copywriting practices in order to maximize the coupon’s effectiveness.
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Faceted Navigation Design Gallery
Website visitors often want to find something but have an incomplete list of the parameters they are looking for. Faceted navigation, which is also known as faceted search, faceted browsing, or guided navigation, is a user interface technique to help users gradually find what they want by providing them with a selection of visible options to filter or refine a large set of results.
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