The Gingerbread House was to be a full featured "family" of interrelated websites for children and their parents. It was to be the "online version" of a children's puppet show.

I worked as the lead designer on phase one—the proof of concept our client used to gain additional funding and pitch to the TV networks.

The scope of the project was enormous. It was to have a free registered side as well as subscription side. Content ranged from a store, interactive tv, crafts, online parenting classes, crafts, games, stories, forums, kids' and families' personal websites all connected to a larger community where people could share e-mail, pictures, etc. Lots and lots of etc.

This first flash design was meant to be the main hub of the "sub" sites. It used both the village picture-style navigation for children and a top bar for adults or older children.

The bottom site was a prototype web page builder for the children's personal sites. I wrote an original actionscript engine that would allow anyone to create their own "room" and publish it as a web page.

Users would be able to drag and drop, scale, rotate, custom color, change depth and create links from any item.

Note: Sadly, we never got to fully develop this site, as funding dried up when the dot-com bubble burst.