Flash Project: Fanpop Widget

June 9th, 2007

So… I avoid blogging about my “day job” but I have divulged that I do web design and more recently, Flash stuff. Over the past few weeks I had the opportunity to create a Flash widget for my long time pal Dave over at Fanpop, a Web 2.0 site.

Basically, they have a cool poll feature called “picks” where users can create fun multiple choice questions for other users to vote on. They wanted a simple widget so users could display the status of a particular poll on their own sites.

Here is the widget showing three Fanpop picks in action:

(Sorry about that last one. It’s just funny to see what actual users come up with.)

The basic idea is that this one widget that works with a large variety of polls. One detail worth noting is that the widget will also display the user’s selection in the poll, adding a bit more personalization. In the first Battlestar Galactica widget you can see my vote for that question.

The “picks” are already super popular on Fanpop and this widget will hopefully spread the poll results around, and get more people to check out the picks and the site itself.

I had fun working on this widget with the Fanpop dudes, and I thank them for letting me play around with their data. It inspired me to jump right into CS3 and get busy. Lastly, I’m glad to see it’s working, as obviously I posted some widgets in this post, and nothing exploded. Sweet!