Web Design Practices

This week , I have read on a web site at

http://www.webdesignpractices.com/

This website have given the statistic and analysis the current trends of the information positioning. Also the presentation type , label format that make a less experience web designer to know the current trend of web design .Which is made the user feel the web easy to use and feel constancy that compare with another website.

H ere is some case of study from the website.
Search function

The Search function allows users to enter keywords and operators (and, or, not) into a text field and find information that matches the search criteria entered. Data below is from 75 leading e-commerce sites, collected in May, 2002. [sites examined]

Frequency of Search 93% of sites in the sample provided a global Search function.

Option to Search an Particular Area of a Site

27% of sites providing Search provided the option to narrow the search to a subsection of the site. This was most commonly provided by having a drop-down menu adjacent to the search field, which was variously positioned left, right, below, or above the text field:

37%	Drop-down left
26%	Drop-down right
11%	Drop-down below
11%	Drop-down above
11%	List of subsearch options each with a separate “Go” button
5%	Radio buttons below
	[view subsearch examples]

This is a very useful tools that given a view statistic for new web designer.