I personally love craigslist's 1996 academic webpage design: very little divergence from browser default styles, minimal positioning, and "font-family: serif;".

I personally love craigslist's 1996 academic webpage design: very little divergence from browser default styles, minimal positioning, and "font-family: serif;". The "design elite" DESPISE craigslist. There was a long stretch a few years ago where prominent dimwits were putting up their total redesigns of craigslist just about weekly. There have been multiple organized design contests based around it!