Still undecided on a gift for that precocious, technologically inclined child on your list? A new service gives kids the opportunity to own and operate their own virtual pet websites.

Children worldwide have created, fed, played with, and battled their virtual pets on [1] Neopets and other sites. These sites, however, while offering diverse fields of play and even developed economies, have limitations that CEI Media Group’s [2] iPetSite.com hopes to overcome.

Conventional virtual pet sites provide the infrastructure, the pet options, and the rules of interaction. Users are then able to create their pets and play the game as established.

[2] iPetSite.com takes the virtual world one step further. Children actually design and build their own virtual pet sites: constructing the interface, designing the available pets, creating the items, and making up all the rules. Complete creative control is handed over to these mini-moguls of the virtual pet world.

These virtual pet sites are then made live and interactive, and other virtual pet fans can register, create a pet, and play on them.

In addition to the pride of ownership, children get experience in management, design, and coding, all in a familiar virtual environment.

[2] iPetSite.com is offering a special holiday price of $19.95 ($20 off the regular price) for the complete software package and one year of web hosting. The software does require at least some knowledge of html to take full advantage of the customization. However, for those tykes (and parents) not yet html-literate, iPetSite.com will fully install the program for a one-time fee of $9.95.

Visit [2] iPetSite.com for more information.