It would be good to have the search.php page start with the cursor in the search keywords box. As it is now, the page loads and I have to click with my mouse in the search keywords box to start typing search terms. If the page loaded and set the default start field to the search keywords box, I could type the url and when the page started I could just type my search terms and then hit enter to find them. A reference on this is: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.11. Section 17.11.1 describes tabindex which could be used to set the initial tabindex position to the search keywords box and second to the search author box.
The problem with tbaindex is that it only controls the ording when using the Tab key, it can't actually set the initial focus of an element. So instead I've used some javascript to set the inital focus.