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Facebook appears to be planning another redesign, sending out press invites to come see a “new look for the News Feed” Thursday at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The company didn’t give further details about what changes may be coming to the landing page for Facebook users that shows updates from friends and other accounts users follow. But speculation started flying soon after the invite hit the inboxes.

...But in the past three years the animated GIF has made a comeback. A number of young bloggers and artists have found a new niche for the long forgotten GIF—it can bridge the gap between video and still photo. It’s within this niche that these flipbook-like, moving images have exploded in popularity thanks to sites like Tumblr, Reddit and 4Chan.

Adobe is working to make it easier for designers to build their own Web sites. A new application from Adobe, codenamed Muse, lets designers create and publish functional Web sites in a similar way to how they would mock-up a site in InDesign or Illustrator. Muse offers users a familiar Adobe tool set in a WYSIWYG interface. Muse is not designed...

Ever since it debuted as TheFacebook in early 2004, the world's largest social network has undergone design changes both big and small...

The online world got an April Fools' Day makeover as YouTube rolled out 1911 viral videos and the Huffington Post put up a mock pay wall.

Every day, 268 million people use Google Inc. tools to search for something. The query goes in, the company's software programs, called spiders, crawl the Web, and deliver back the most relevant links.

Google Sites, a service that lets you create and collaborate on a simple webpage, as well as embed documents, photos, videos into it, was visually a bland affair…until now.

Yahoo is expected to launch its new homepage Tuesday, months earlier than previously planned.

The Internet giant's search engine could make Web site design and navigation obsolete.