I just wish I'd realised sooner so I could have fixed it. ):
I think the only reason I've retained anything is that I'm planning to go into a web-based career (development). I'm looking at a lot of Generator layouts these days too, going “oh my sweet baby Jesus, how did they do that?!”. But I think for me that's more a lack of familiarity with the IJ/LJ S1 layout system than the actual HTML/CSS, because I'm seeing these LASTN_HEAD and I'm like, “.... yeahhhhhh...”