The ReUSEIT! Contest Entries came out yesterday. It is a re-design contest using CSS to makeover Jakob Neilson's attrocity of an un-readable "usability" site useit.com. What struck me is how very little it took to make the site work. Just a basic understanding of visual heirarchy is all that is necessary, take this design for example: 2col's. The layout stayed the same, the designer just softened up the color pallette and gave it some proper indentation. Or maybe it was just use of proper HTML tags naturally presenting a structured document (combination of both i bet). Other entrys worth looking at (it's a very long list) are Jakoblog - 'cause black/grey is always cool, Bluey - ditto about aqua/grey and the pull-quotes with photographs are super slick, and Minimal Jakob - for the tight little icons and the alert box that is actually an alert box!