> Websites shouldn't all look the same. We prefer campy, kitschy, messy, imperfect. I really like the design aesthethic this product encourages. There's so much charm and fun and eccentricity that's lost in a web where full-height responsive image backgrounds and blocky design frameworks are ubiquitous. If this can help people express just a little bit of the wild creativity of things like early 2000's MySpace layout…
Was a website in the mid 00's where you could build your own website (anameofyourchoosing.piczo.com) and then decorate it using a WYSIWYG editor via drag and drop. Was really popular with kids when I was in primary school (including myself).
There were no templates or any grid systems etc, you'd start with a totally blank white page and you'd just add different premade widgets or HTML snippets to the page, customise the background etc. etc.
Made for some interesting designs to say the least. You'd have to be pretty good at it to make anything that looked professional due to the impreciseness of it all though.
Shame there doesn't seem to be really much archived of the service or any of the sites, unlike Geocities. You can see some examples of sites if you look on Google Images though.
