Currently, it appears to me, there are two divergent fashions in Website design. The first is to sites that have extremely sophisticated and stylized graphics. This is a screen shot from Iberia, Spain's national airline. The second fashion, appears to be for sites, like this one, which take a minimalist approach. Speed is a major benefit.
Small text is very fashionable.
I use Javascript very sparingly in non critical situations where it won't matter if someone has it turned off. This site uses cascading style sheets for formating the text.