Dante_Maure - 1:27 am on Jan 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

certainly doesn't look like it was built in 1998

Good design can be timeless.

Yahoo's home page from 1998 [web.archive.org] looks far more professional today than the majority of pages that will be launched in the next 12 months.

Very simple does not at all mean that a design will be perceived as being amateurish.

All it takes to project a professional appearance is a well crafted logo combined with simple, elegant, sensibly laid out plain text HTML content.