Tag: HOMEPAGE

Google's just unveiled its holiday gift to the world: a brand new homepage doodle. The latest design features interactive, postcard-like images of 17 holiday scenes from around the world. All of the images are arranged across the top of the homepage, and each can be enlarged with a hover of the cursor. It took five artists a total of 250 hours to put together, working under the direction of ...

If you ask today's casual jazz listener to name some of history's transformative musicians, they'll probably rattle off names like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington or Charlie Parker, before getting around to Dizzy Gillespie. Google, however, certainly hasn't forgotten the legendary jazz trumpeter, and, in honor of what would've been his 93rd birthday, unveiled a dizzyingly colorful homepage ...

For months now, we've known this day was coming. But that doesn't make saying goodbye any easier. Geocities, the granddaddy of homepage-hosting services, is shutting down today. Not only will the service become obsolete, but all its data will be permanently deleted, too. Geocities has walked a long road, from pioneering Internet self-publishing, to selling out to Yahoo!, to total irrelevance, ...

Further increasing its dominance over everything Web-related, Google received a patent Tuesday for the design of its home page, according to Gawker. One might ask, "What is there to patent?" After all, the design is minimalist at best and plain at worst. Well, it means that Google owns the idea of having a home page with a search box placed in the middle (where else?), two buttons underneath that ...

If you still don't have a Twitter account (or just want to bone up on the best way to use yours if you do), then relax -- help is on the way. According to All Things Digital, Twitter just launched a new site called 'Twitter 101' and redesigned its homepage in a bid to make the site more intuitive than ever -- and hopefully attract more business users in the process. Co-founder Biz Stone said ...

The gods of search have officially re-branded their Google Personalized Homepage as iGoogle. Two years ago, Google launched Personalized Homepage, which allowed users to tailor their Google experience by plopping 'gadgets' on the page to display stuff like weather, stock reports and news headlines. The switch to iGoogle brings with it the ability to actually create content for these gadgets, ...