Guillermo, I'm still a student, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. That said, I might think about keeping the sidebar and using it as a means to filter searches further. Depending on the weight your sidebar has in the overall design, removing it altogether may be a jarring change for some users.
If you decide to use it as a way to sift through search results by category, you may want to add some subtle visual cues to indicate that you are working with a smaller subset of the total site. Both Amazon and Newegg display the number of results from each category in the search sidebar, which I find helpful. You know your users though - are they the type to get confused by the disappearance of the sidebar? Will typical searches turn up enough results to make categories useful on the search page? If users are dissatisfied with the results of the search, is there an easy way to get back to a page with the category sidebar? --Spencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30410 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
