I made a WordPress theme (you are soaking in it) to match the aesthetics of my Directory Master program, which in turn lovingly appropriated the idea from the old DOS Norton Utilities program (which, along with Wordperfect 5.1 represents the pinnacle of user interface design, it’s been downhill since).
Here is a screenshot of what it might look like

In addition to the nice edge effect and animated menu buttons, It has some rudimentary visual editor blocks like:

And even

And tables. Can you tell I really like the 3d bar effect?

Program	My UI rating on a scale of 1-10
Norton Utilities 5	10
Word Perfect 5.1	9
Windows 3.11	2
Windows 95	1

Source code and installable WordPress theme zip file can be downloaded from my github