Kiddie Channel website

**The Kiddie Website** is The Kiddie Channel's website, located at https://www.kiddie.com. It has often been positioned as a continuation of Kiddie, and much of the website's content is directly inspired by Kiddie Channel's individual shows and/or characters.

## Overview and Appearance

The Kiddie Channel's website hosts supplementary resources, activities, games, and often lets users watch full episodes of various shows, shorts, and minisodes. Most episodes are split into acts, with a rotating selection of full episodes. Many versions of the website also feature character descriptions, as well as so-called "party surprise buttons" that, when clicked, display an animation of confetti blowing around the screen, as well as a noisemaker sound-effect included (these buttons were first added in 2009).

However, starting with the website's 2017 update and current versions to this day, the Party Surprise Buttons are now built into the Kiddie characters; the user has to click on the characters in order to see the confetti animation (in addition to a variety of new confetti shapes, the shows' theme songs, and even the characters' catchphrases at different times). In a 2023 update of the website, not only will the character produce confetti and/or say their favorite catchphrase, but they will also strike a certain pose and spin around. The Party Surprise Buttons were previously animated using Adobe Flash Player, but are now animated through JavaScript capabilities.

The Party Surprise Buttons now appear as the Kiddie characters, and they might be able to do the confetti several times, but in all versions of the Kiddie website prior to the 2017 version, the Party Surprise Buttons appeared as realistic buttons, and they could only be clicked once (which were all portrayed as four colored buttons featured separately).

## History and Design

The companion site to The Kiddie Channel was built by interactive firm Webnode (as revealed by the watermarks on previous versions of the site). As of August 2023, the website is still active (but with various minor updates). An online component of Kiddie was planned as early as the original pilot demo. This may have been pursued to tie into the virtual setting of Kiddie's shows and characters.

The Kiddie website was introduced in early 2003, and as such, it has undergone several redesigns that often improved the layout and responsiveness while fixing up some of the available content (such as a hyper-realistic design in earlier versions, and a minimalistic design in later versions). One major redesign of the website was implemented around 2017.

The website was slightly redesigned again in 2022, which added many more sections, features, and pieces of content. However, the deprecation of Adobe Flash Player (and the announcement of its eventual discontinuation) may have influenced the removal of certain assets that were developed in Adobe Flash (such as certain older games, and early installments of the Party Surprise Buttons). Some of the Kiddie website's content has since been converted to modern formats and brought back to the website, sometimes with new accessibility features and other changes from their original versions.

## Trivia

* As of 2017 onwards, the Party Surprise Buttons now include:
	1. Different shapes of confetti (such as normal, hearts, stars, flowers, snowflakes, clovers, bubbles, fireworks, etc).
	2. The theme song of the show in question.
	3. The characters' memorable catchphrases.
	4. The characters' many poses.
* Likewise, there are a number of other constants that follow through the Kiddie website, often under contrived circumstances.

## Gallery

### Homepage

Gallery slideshow of Kiddie shows (often updated).
### Music

Music page (updated since then).Price list (all songs updated to $0.00 since then).

### Mini Sites

Sunny BunniesJunior on the JobButterbean's CafeShimmer and Shine