To give him some credit, he did make it look much prettier than the original. As easy as HTML and CSS are, comparably to some languages that is, it's still hard to pull it all together nicely like he has.

I've been making little sites since the days of Netscape 2.0 and the first frames, and honestly, I don't have the patience for it. I'd rather code a backend then design the mockup for a single page of the front end. I'll sit there and put one element of a page in a hundred different spots trying to find something that feels good to me, and I'll decide on three or four places that I like, and never settle on a single one. It just frustrates the hell out of me, so even though part of my education and experience covers graphic design, I'll leave it up to somebody else every chance I get.
-m