In the same week that she made a historic jump on the Billboard singles chart with "Womanizer," Britney Spears added another notch to her do-over belt with the relaunch of her official Web site, where she promised to give her fans unprecedented access to her backstage life.

In a black-and-white vlog post, the bright-eyed singer appears to be sitting on a bed as she addresses the camera and says, "Hi everybody, welcome to the new BritneySpears.com. I want to thank you for all of your support, it really means a lot to me. I'm going to take you where no paparazzi lens ever could. I'll be updating the site all the time with new videos and photos and lots of other cool stuff." According to the site, the video was recorded while Spears was shooting some other "fun interviews for the site" as a crew from Entertainment Tonight waited outside the door to speak to her. "But Brit took some time out of her busy schedule to record a message for you guys!" a message on the site reads.

The new site, launched on Wednesday, also features homemade videos of fans working out and paying homage to the "Womanizer" video, a flipbook of more than 70 of Spears' different personas over the years, a red-carpet gallery and a behind-the-scenes story on the making of "Womanizer."

While it's been mostly good news for Spears lately, she does have one legal matter hanging over her head that has yet to be dealt with. In a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday, during a trial over the singer's conviction for driving without a valid California license, a jury heard a series of witnesses discuss where Spears' true home is.

According to the Los Angeles Times, a tabloid photographer, who was among those that shot such infamous photos as Spears shaving her head and hitting a car with an umbrella, told the jury that he estimated the singer spent 80 percent of her time in California.

The trial centers on an incident Spears was involved in last August, when she presented a Louisiana driver's license to police after hitting a parked car, even though she seems to spend most of her time in Los Angeles; the hit-and-run charges were dropped after she compensated the vehicle's owner. Testimony in the case took only a few hours on Thursday, with closing arguments set for Friday (October 17). The judge had offered a plea bargain in the case — a year's probation and $150 fine — which Spears' lawyer rejected in an effort to avoid a criminal conviction on her record. She faces a maximum of six months in jail if convicted of the misdemeanor charge.

Spears did not attend the trial, but her father, Jamie, who continues to act as conservator of her estate, told the jury that his daughter was living in California only because of the child-custody arrangement with her ex-husband Kevin Federline.

"Louisiana is her home," said Jamie Spears, who the paper described as appearing "nervous and uncomfortable" on the witness stand. "She was born and raised there." He added that Britney is building a second home in Louisiana and also owns property in Florida, California and New York and that she is registered to vote in Louisiana and plans to move back "when we can travel with the kids." Federline currently has custody of the couple's sons, with Spears caring for them three days a week.

Asked to describe his job as conservator of Britney's estate, Jamie Spears reportedly "looked perplexed for several seconds" and then explained, "I take care of her." When defense attorney Michael Flanagan asked how Spears was doing, her father "tersely" said, "Doing good." But when he was approached in the spectator's gallery after his testimony and asked if he could arrange to have Spears testify in the trial, the singer's father firmly shook his head and said, "No."