Friday, August 20, 2021

My Week with 2011: The New SproutOnline.com

 

Image from YouTube


Madeline Fretz - In December 2011, SproutOnline.con got its third facelift. This one had two areas for parents and "Sproutlets" (which is what Sprout calls kids). The kids' main page was a network of islands home to Sprout characters, with a bar of shows and blocks' pages below. To me, this main page looked like a throwback to the 2005-2007 main page. Plus games, videos, and apps. The main page was recreated in the Sprout "Games and Videos" app.

The grown-ups' area

The grown-ups' section, on the other hand, had TV schedules, crafts and recipes, coloring pages, parenting articles (this kinda served as a replacement for the Sprout for Parents site of yore), information on games, information on shows and blocks, with a link to the kids' section at the top. The Let's Go Show was even on the site, despite having dissolved a year ago.

And to top things off, here are some pics of the show pages on the kids' section.


Image from YouTube

You know, I've always wondered something about the Super Sproutlet Show page. Why do the hosts of The Sunny Side Up Show have their own pages? (look closely). Well, I guess it was for THEIR variations of the main SSU page (which featured Kelly Vrooman).



In spring 2013, Sproutonline.com got YET another refresh. But that's a whole other story.

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