Here's a quick demo of two nice options available for displaying hands. The first requires BBO to be accessible and its server to be up. The second is pretty and simple (and not IE friendly, so if I get someone using IE to stop it'll be a success -- maybe it works in IE9 though).
Test the spade 8 7 6 symbol.
So here's the BBO version of a hand.
Now for the fancy CSS version (acknowledgement at bottom)...