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Visualizing cladograms

Thanks to David Marjanovic for sending me the Dinosauricon-type equivalent of my classification (see both below). Coding is just a more compact way of visualizing the same thing (especially in larger classifications). Two major differences though: (1) I allow a formally recognized (traditional) Class Charophycea; and (2) I would only give informal names to the various subclades (fewer formal names means less nomenclatural bickering down the road).
Keesey and I are just approaching this from different directions. Dare we hope for an eventual compromise solution? Time will tell.
------ Cheers, Ken

Charophycea
   1  Chlorokybales
   2  Klebsormidiales
   B  Conjugales
   3  Coleochaetales
   4  Charales
   5  {{Metaphyta}}

--+--Chlorokybales
 `--+--+--Klebsormidiales
    |  `--Conjugales
    `--+--Coleochaetales
       `--+--Charales
          `--Metaphyta

P.S. Maybe I should combine coding and slight indentation (indentation alone is too confusing in larger classifications). Is this easier to visualize than the straight columns?: 

Charophycea
   1  Chlorokybales      2  Klebsormidiales
    B  Conjugales
     3  Coleochaetales
      4  Charales
      5  {{Metaphyta}}



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