CBSNews.com is undergoing a major overhaul and redesign of its sites to make them easier to navigate, more visually compelling, faster and more focused on driving users to content.
The new home page features a rotating list of top stories on the left, next to the list of the latest and most important headlines. CBS News programs, as well as the latest videos, photo galleries and blogs, are all highlighted on the page. CBS News also plugs its program sites, including Evening News, Face the Nation, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and Sunday Morning, on its homepage. CBS says that the company applied technology from its sister site, CNET.com, to deliver pages from its servers to users’ screens more rapidly. Dan Farber, CNET’s editor-in-chief, oversaw the redesign.
Here’s what CBSNews.com used to look circa 2000 (left) and currently (right):
As you can see from the screenshot of the new design at the top of the post, this is a big improvement. The additional of images definitely make the site more aesthetically pleasing and easier to scroll through. But it seems that the new site is now a little too cluttered with pictures. Farber says the news site has undergone two major redesigns over the past ten years. A small percentage of random visitors to CBSNews.com will see the new look for pages on the site. CBS Says the site is still a work in progress and is undergoing changes and upgrades frequently.
This new redesign may be part of an effort to catch up to ABCnews.com and MSNBC.com (NBC’s news site). CBSNews.com only drew 3.2 million unique visitors in U.S. in April compared to 4.4 million for ABCnews.com and 30.7 million for MSNBC.com, according to ComScore.
if they redirected news.com to this instead of cnet, they will win the internet.
they got to beat the final monster at the end though.. he’s tough
They may have a hard way doing it. Still, this is a great improvement.
and holy shit msnbc.com gets 30 million
I like pictures. They’re fun.
CBS Interactive is a joke. They’re run by a bunch of LA media executives who have no idea what to do.
- Not from India
yeah. i guess they figure as long as it’s “cluttered,” they’re safe to remain clueless and always have more to do. A conceptual boondoggle. I mean, it’s obviously not designed by people who use the internet (themselves).
What the f*** makes you say that you are not from India? As if we Indians don’t know about CBS Interactive. Shed this attitude first and grow up!
Are they TRYING to look more like MSN? Too busy.
They must have consulted the same designers who did the TechCrunch site.
Oh snap!
no one will ever go to their site so it doesn’t really matter, does it?
I love CBSnews.com/video – free on demand programming of 60 minutes & 48 hours(my favs)
Awesome stuff … yet lately their streams (last 2 weeks) the programs begins and then freeze
Hope they fix it … it freezes in the middle of the commercials.
Sort of like newser.com, love the pictures there. Easier to read news and headlines that way.
Yeah, you really think it’s easy to read the CBS site?
Why is CBS wasting some much valuable space on their homepage by running ATT ads? Are they in need of money that bad?
Leave the ads for products/services to your network to run and instead promote your own shows for God sake!
Interesting how there is no mention of, or comparison with, the granddaddy of all news sites; CNN.com; one of the first media outlets to dedicate themselves to an online presence (well before the Y2K buzz and tech bubble) with an $8M dedicated Internet News budget…
There is nothing is good.Design is looking like a dirty shirt which is torn.
CBSNews should consult and top designer firm.Or must follow the designs like 24.com