The Web Design Usability Series is supported by join.me, an easy way to instantly share your screen with anyone. join.me lets you collaborate on-the-fly, put your heads together super-fast and even just show off.A site's ease of use, or its usability, is an integral part of its success, especially with websites becoming more and more interactive, complex and packed with features. User-centered design is all about building websites that fulfill the goals and desires of its users, and at the heart...

Unarguably one of the most important aspects of any design is its colors. Designers create the style of a site, as well as the movement it makes, the emotion it creates, and its purpose based largely upon the color choices they make. Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites.Color TerminologiesMany of you may have learned some color basics in school, but let's quickly review some terminology in order to get a better grasp on colors and...

Below are some accurate numbers of number of hosts used by web giant assosications and companies: 6218 Hosts at Facebook August 14, 2011 http://cyberwar.nl/d/20110813_PTRs_Facebook.txt.gz 734814 Hosts at Amazon August 14, 2011 http://cyberwar.nl/d/20110814_PTRs_Amazon.txt.gz 283765 Hosts at Yahoo August 14, 2011 http://cyberwar.nl/d/20110814_PTRs_Yahoo.txt.gz 207355 Hosts BAE Raytheon Honeywell SAIC et al August...

Linux is making waves. It's backed by all the big computer makers, and it's giving Bill Gates nightmares of being chased by annoying penguins - but is it right for your business? Actually, we have two very different questions here: Linux on the desktop, and Linux on the server. The answer to each is likely to be very different from one company to another. To help you understand Linux, what it is and how you could use it, we have prepared a major Linux Article. Particularly look at the section...

If you’re interested in broadcasting events live on the Web (not to mention mobile devices or your own website) this one’s for you. Video service and destination Livestream made a whopper of an announced today - users can now stream (live stream mind you) directly to Facebook – that’s pretty big news in the world of video. As you might imagine, the opportunities here are endless for marketing and sales professionals. Everything from full scale live webinars to more intimate presentations can be...

(CNN) -- Apple on Thursday lifted the veil on its plans to remake the educational landscape in a way that centers on its best-selling tablet computer, the iPad."Education is deep in Apple's DNA and iPad may be our most exciting education product yet," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, said in a statement.At a press conference in New York, the company announced three products that aim to get students and teachers to use the iPad's touch-screen interface to read, write, plan...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- In a sign that its merger prospects are dimming, AT&T said Thursday that it will take a $4 billion accounting charge this quarter to cover part of the break-up fee it will owe, if its bid to acquire T-Mobile fails to gain regulatory approval.The move comes two days after the Federal Communications Commission took the unusual step of recommending that AT&T's proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile go to an administrative hearing. The maneuver, a sign of opposition...

In a Q&A, Chrome leader Sundar Pichai promises the Android version will improve "by leaps and bounds" and says the browser will make Google money directly.When Google introduced Chrome in September 2008, people laughed at the bare-bones browser--no extensions, no bookmarks, no Mac version, and who needs yet another browser anyway?Nobody's laughing now.Under the leadership of Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai, though, Chrome dramatically extended its reach. One in five people use Chrome, according...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Adobe is abandoning its Flash software for mobile devices. Don't panic: For consumers, this is a good move.Adobe is moving away from its 15-year-old technology to instead embrace a universal standard for displaying rich media on the Web. Shifting to HTML5 -- the new, broadly accepted Web standard -- is a bold move for Adobe. Many smartphone and tablet owners, particularly those with iPhones and iPads, have not been able to view media coded for Flash on their mobile devices.Flash...

ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression of how your current Apache installation performs. This especially shows you how many requests per second your Apache installation is capable of serving. Synopsis ab [ -A auth-username:password ] [ -c concurrency ] [ -C cookie-name=value ] [ -d ] [ -e csv-file ] [ -g gnuplot-file ] [ -h ] [ -H custom-header ] ...