Bad fancy designs

I came across once a webpage which aimed at pointing out bad website designs. http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Some of them tried to impress readers, but somehow they failed. I don't know what the others think, but I still respect them. Safe choices do not encourage creativity. The people who create these websites probably dare not experimenting. My newspaper has a very boring website layout. It has been used for 7 years since the newspaper was born without any change. It's hard to change it without displeasing some people among our readers. And even from the usablity perspective, the layout has some problems. But people are just too familiar with it.
So a good website, for me, should be one that manages to balance usability and creativity. You might argue : "Look at Google, their simple layout works". Sure, but they has a lot of creativity in that too. The fact that they dared to leave their whole page blank with only the search box and the logo on or the fact that they decorates their logo regularly which is considered a taboo for most web designers (I was told that logos are not supposed to be touched on on a website) are evidences of that. In short, they dare to be different, and that difference works.