You can laugh all you want but: (1) This is computer science dpt, not graphic design school website, so not really a story of cobbler's children with no shoes. (2) well, yes, this design _is_ bad but you cannot imagine how many times I wished for just dark grey text on white background, simple sans font, plain HTML tags, and minimum of images supporting the content. I just want to read the damn stuff, not to marvel at all these exotic google fonts, fixed headers, oversized stock photos and cutesy icons. I find that I press Readability's "read now" bookmarklet much more than I'd wanted to.