The new Las Vegas Sun website finally launched today!!

Las Vegas is a city full of strange stories and stranger characters. It’s really a wonderland for journalism and I’m really excited about the direction the Sun is going in.

• Blogs are a main feature in the site and we have some great political bloggers such as Patrick Coolican.
• All the video shot for the site is shot in HD and can be downloaded in iPod size and 720p with more formats to come.
• Photo slide-shows can be viewed full-screen and they dynamically pull in the largest photo your screen can view instead of simply upscaling a smaller photo.
• Full 360-degree audio/visual panoramas that are recorded in surround sound.
• Widgets everywhere! A new widget called the phudio (photo/audio) will probably be used quite a bit on a daily basis. Check out Faces of Hope as an example.
• No Ads!!! (for now)
• Great design that is flexible and doesn’t feel like a template. Most of the work on the design was done by Tyson Evans
• Awesome photographers utilizing multimedia like Leila Navidi (Lessons of War, Faces of Hope), and Tiffany Brown (One Fight Contract)