CDC.gov Launches New Look and New Tool
The CDC.gov home page launches a new visual design and a new tool – Public Health Image of the Week.
CDC.gov's New Look
The CDC.gov home page and 2nd level pages now have a new look! The new visual design is intended to offer a clean and modern look and is based on user experience research. This visual design update includes:
- Update to the CDC.gov banner and footer
- Expanded Search box and relocation to upper right hand corner
- Repositioning of the A-Z Index across the top of the page
- New module designs for information groupings
- New page options, including Bookmark and Share, Email Page and Print Page; and a redesigned Text Sizer
New Tool: Public Health Image of the Week
The new Public Health Image of the Week tool will provide the pictorial that supports the information critical to the communication of public health messages.
Digital imagery can assist with
- Illustrating the effects of disease and principles of disease prevention
- Diagnosis and hospital teaching
- School children's science projects
- Enhancing public health messages
By clicking on the featured image, additional information about each respective image will be revealed. Look for this new tool, underneath the News & Events section on the CDC.gov home page.
The source for the images is CDC's Public Health Image Library (PHIL). CDC welcomes public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into categories of people, places and science, and is presented as single images, image sets and multimedia files.
Have You Linked to CDC.gov Yet?
We invite organizations to add a graphic link to CDC.gov.
Go to Linking to CDC.gov and select from 4 images, shown below. Copy the adjacent HTML code block for the image and paste it anywhere on your Web site, automatically creating a link to CDC.gov.
More Information
CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
Your resource for public health photographs, illustrations, and multimedia files.
