The original plan was for me to rework the existing widget prototype, but once I realized what the widget actually needed to do, it was obvious that I would have to start over from scratch.
After three weeks and countless iterations, I completed the widget. The end result is a self-contained, dynamic flash application whose colors, fonts and content are defined externally and selectable dynamically.
A dynamically written .swf stub allows the widget to change its behavior based on referrer, and to also pass that referrer back to Google Analytics, which is used in the widget to track user interactions.
2008
Technologies used: Flash 8, XML, CSS