Welcome to the New CBS News.com

News Web Site Unveils New Design, Exclusive Content

(CBS)  After months of development and testing, we are setting sail with the next generation of our Web site. The new CBSNews.com offers a more visually rich and navigable presentation of the news as it happens. At the top of the home page, we have rotating images of the top stories, a stack of latest headlines, exclusive content from CBS News, and carousels of the news in photos, the latest videos and additional news stories and features.

Take A Tour Of The New Site

The page also provides easy navigation to the news sections, such as Politics and Health, blogs and revamped sites for the CBS News programs, including Evening News, The Early Show, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours Mystery, Face the Nation, Sunday Morning and Up to the Minute.



In addition, the new CBSNews.com provides access to live coverage of breaking news and special events, and a real-time Twitter feed of news from our correspondents and editors.

We are also launching a new blog, 48 Hours Crimesider, a companion to the popular CBS News 48 Hours Mystery true-crime program. Crimesider's daily blotter covers the most riveting crime stories of the day and features 911 calls, police interrogations and expert forensics.



In addition to Crimesider, CBSNews.com has several blogs, including Political Hotsheet, WorldWatch, EconWatch and CourtWatch and RightsWatch, that offer the latest buzz and analysis on the major issues of the day.

We are also introducing a new series of Web video programs. Washington Unplugged , our hard-hitting, topical, political forum with exclusive newsmaker interviews and roundtable discussions, will move from a weekly to a live daily format. Bob Schieffer, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent and moderator of Face the Nation, hosts the show along with other CBS News correspondents.

Later this summer, we will debut The Tomorrow Show, hosted by CBS News Contributor Mo Rocca. It will be a fun, interactive program about the strange and inventive future that is ahead of us. The Tomorrow Show will discuss technology, food, pop culture, the environment and other topics with the scientists, authors, bloggers, and futurists who are forecasting the future and the audience.

Also coming this summer, CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton will host In Sickness and Health, a live weekly show that will cover a variety of topical subjects in medicine, highlighting Dr. Ashton’s specialization in women's health.

Let us know what you think. Please pass on your thoughts in the story comments below.

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Dan Farber is editor-in-chief of CBSNews.com.

[boatdocster]

The old site was more organized and easier to navigate. The new site tries to overwhelm you with glitz and photos (is that CBS's more visually rich??) but it makes all the pages excessively long and busy, requires extra scrolling and extra mouse clicks to navigate, and quite frankly, takes away from why I used to go to CBS News - to read the news! If I wanted to see a photo shoot, I'd go to a fashion web page.

Sorry you spent months and dollars going in the wrong direction. Looks like most folks on this thread agree. Bring back the old site and chalk this one up to experience!

[Kaptah]

I think the new look is GREAT!

Way to Go CBS...

Take the negative comments with a 'grain of salt'.
Too many factors could create negative effects with some viewers.

Running Vista on a HP Desktop 3 Gigs RAM, plain Jane system.

[juwboy]

The new site is unusable because windows close spontaneously after variable periods of time (anything from 5 seconds to a few minutes)without any action from me. It used to be a problem with the old site, too, but I had not encountered this annoying bug in recent months.

Also, when backtracking, it`s necessary to click TWICE on the back arrow.

[goletaschoon]

It's not "goletaschoon" it is "goletaschooner" as in Goleta Schooner.

Ya'll are cuttin' corners a tad much.

Sheesh - 12 characters instead of 14.

I apologize for the double post. I'm not that emphatic! Plenty of other sites to visit for the real deal.

[goletaschoon]

Vote as of 6-16-09, 9:22 PM PDT:

Don't like it: 13
Like it: 2

Add me to the don't like it. Glitzy, slow, annoying to visit.

I don't want to be entertained by the news, I want to know exactly what is going on without exaggeration or spin. And I don't want to
flip-flop around a dippy site trying to find it. Miss the simulcast & guiding light.

Some quotes:

"The facts, mam, just the facts."
Sgt. Friday, "Dragnet"

"If it ain't broke don't fix it."
Me

[goletaschoon]

Vote as of 6-16-09, 9:22 PM PDT:

Don't like it: 13
Like it: 2

Add me to the don't like it. Glitzy, slow, annoying to visit.

I don't want to be entertained by the news, I want to know exactly what is going on without exaggeration or spin. And I don't want to
flip-flop around a dippy site trying to find it. Miss the simulcast & guiding light.

Some quotes:

"The facts, mam, just the facts."
Sgt. Friday, "Dragnet"

"If it ain't broke don't fix it."
Me

[repmuj1]

New site looks fine to me. As long as the news is reported objectively I will have no problem with any new site.

[AnnieH56]

Has something happened to the live simulcast of the Evening News? I used to watch it on my computer just about every day, but now I'm not even finding a link to it.

Not sure why you changed the site. Its like Government Health Care Plans by BO. Pay more, get less for the effort. hehe

[jerragel]

The old site was just fine. Easy to read and easy to maneuver. This is too busy trying to do too much. We are looking for information not entertainment.

[bdegroff25]

All this is superb, but put the Guiding Light back on. You are destroying a long history. I am disappointed in CBS and I hope another network picks it up. You better beat them. We who have watched for literally generations think it is a shame to not count it's historic value. How many shows have the history of Guiding Light? None.
What's wrong with America and tradition?
Please forward to someone at CBS who will pick up the ball and fix this error in judgement?

5 generations of loyalty down the drain.
Betsey de Groff

[DoubleHappiness88]

More hype, less substance.

[whitepineone]

Good grief, Charlie Brown. I see no improvements for users. I thought the old site was slow, but if s-l-o-w-e-r is progress, it's the only improvement. Let's just bring back what worked, like "Classic Coke", and get back to business.

[bobswife93]

I do NOT like the new format or design, either. I sent a "contact us" e-mail early this a.m. asking how I could access the OLD homepage. I do not like having to scroll, scroll, click, click click just to see what was on one screen before the "New and Improved!!" NOT

[thomas.wingenfeld--2008]

I like the fresh new design, the structure and the new contents of the site. In the old structure I sometimes got lost while clicking around, this is now much better. I am sure that you will improve speed over time, new designs tend to be slower for a while. Thanks a lot for all the efforts you put behind the new service.

[barbmum]

I also liked the old one. I have looked at others and always came back to CBS. I liked to get the updates in the morning, afternoon and evening. Bring back the old!!!

[armyoftwelve]

Haven't read one positive comment about the new format yet. Not here, not on any other story either.

Psst, CBS....take the hint.

[gravyboat3000]

We don't like change, CBS. While I don't like this new format, I can see getting used to it over time.

The main thing I have an issue with is that you have to work to get to the most current comments, and it's extremely slow at times. I guess that could be chalked up to growing pains?

Anyway, thanks for the effort.

[mswolfestock]

Here's another thing totally wrong with this new website ---

I HAVE TO CLICK THE "BACK" BUTTON TWO OR THREE TIMES BEFORE ANYTHING HAPPENS. THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. IT'S THE YEAR 2009 - THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE FOR SHODDY CODING ON ANY WEBSITE THAT'S WORTH MORE THAN TWO CENTS.

[starleo146]

yes I agree with that, also the last comment stays last I have to go through all to find the latest comment but I do like the format of the news stories, and the reply to a comment I like as well

[mswolfestock]

There was NOTHING wrong with the old website. I absolutely hate this new design. And the program kept crashing, too. I never had problems with any other internet site but I have had CBS's website crash THREE TIMES this morning.

I liked the old website because everything was on the home page. Now I have to actually go to the sections to see what is in them. I also liked the old website because it never crashed.