Absolutely. A standard emerged in websites many years back: * logo in in the upper left (which is also a link to the home page) * search is a text box in the

Absolutely. A standard emerged in websites many years back: * logo in in the upper left (which is also a link to the home page) * search is a text box in the upper right. If you're not doing it this way, you're imposing an unnecessary cognitive load on your users.