Creative CSS - an oxymoron?

I can't stand the internet anymore. Everything is a template. Uniform. Pedestrian. Bland. Boring.

Sure, I'm posting this to a blog site that uses templates, but THIS IS A BLOG SITE. They use templates to make everything easy to use. This isn't my personal domain. This isn't my business domain. Neither of those should look like a blog site, yet the majority of the internet now looks like a blog. Everything is a template and it's freaking, driving me out of my mind.

Back around 1998, we used to laugh at how pages that were designed by programmers looked like programs. They were sterile and unappealing. The programmers would hire html writers to make their pages more interesting. Then, along came CSS. It's the unimaginative programmer's wet dream. The templates are like programs. You fill in your information and have a webpage. It's just enough different from the next persons to be different, but just enough the same to make the nervous programmer feel comfortable. What started as a convenience has taken over the net. Sameness. Sameness. Sameness.

I looked up uncreative css, to see what I'd find and came across this page. It was posted in 2001. It's only gotten worse, since then.

In an attempt to vent, I made a creative page. It's on my real domain, that I can't mention here, but I sent the link to a friend, after bitching about the sameness of everything. She sent me back a link to a page she made for me. IT WAS A TEMPLATE!

She actually read my complaint, looked at my page, then slapped an image in a template and sent it to me as an example of creative css. A template! Am I speaking a different language? Are there people, my friend included, who can't see that templates are the antithesis of creativity??

I'm an html person. I know html like nobody's business. I can put anything, anywhere with html. I'm learning CSS, but slowly. I love the fixed background. God knows how much I love that. Seriously, He knows, and He's a little concerned about it.
I cannot use a template. Templates are for convenience - for blog sites and businesses - or for stupid uncreative people. That's it. Those are the only uses. Any domain that isn't a blog or a business needs to get out of a template.

If you have an example of a site that hasn't sold it soul to templates, please comment with a link. Creative sites should be having a field day with the new options CSS allows, but I'm not seeing it. It's really easy to stand out in a field full of templates - JUST STOP USING THEM.