Remember when Google had a Gold and Silver Search option that you could brand and use on your own site(s)? It’s been gone for a few years now, and you could only get the search with Google ads on it. Now you can buy Google Custom Search Business Edition and customize the search box to have your branding and get rid of those pesky Google Ads!
For a fee ($100 per year for 500 pages, and $500 for up to 50,000 pages) you can have your own search box for your website just by adding some scripting to your site.
The customers who had used the Gold and Silver Site Searches in the past have actually been transfered to this new product.
Follow the link below to read more about it on Google:
Website Design & Review
I came across a great tool for website designers today while surfing. This is a community website where you can post a site and have it peer reviewed. They have tips and tricks as well as a few tutorials. You, of course can review other sites as well, so you get to see what the competition is up to. This is a very active forum with lots going on. Looks like you could get some decent feedback in a short time here. There are guidelines for posting and for reviewing, and they have a proceedure for website designers who want to promote their services as well. I think with those things in place this community should be a really great resource for anyone designing a website, professional or otherwise. http://www.graphic-design.com/Web/index.html