why is the low graphics version of the bbc news homepage hideously ugly and 1995 like?

i wish they’d make a decent css version of it. as well as looking better it’d remove the relationship between content order on the page and content order in the source code. that’s the kind of thing that plays merry hell with things like screen readers for the blind which i presume is the type of audience the bbc is after with it’s low graphics site. (though it’s not that bad. just not as good as i expect from the beeb.)