90s Website Maker

Fill in the form and the preview updates instantly, rendered in a sandboxed frame exactly as the generated file will look. The essential food groups of a 1997 homepage are all here:

• Tiled backgrounds — drawn as tiny repeating tiles (stars, clouds, or eye-watering checkerboard), just like the 2 KB GIFs of old
• Marquee — yes, a genuine <marquee> tag lives inside the generated page; deprecated, dishonored, and still scrolling in every browser
• Hit counter — an odometer-style counter pre-loaded with a suspiciously impressive number
• Under construction — a striped banner, because every good site was eternally unfinished
• Guestbook — the link is there; the CGI script, like all guestbook CGI scripts, is unreachable

Download saves a complete, standalone HTML file (backgrounds embedded as data URIs, no external anything). Open it locally, host it, or send it to a friend who remembers webrings. Everything is generated in your browser.

You can embed this util on your own site as a widget. Adding ?embed=1 to the URL loads a compact version with just the tool itself; no header, menu, or documentation. Paste this snippet into your HTML:

Copy snippet Adjust the height to taste.