a friend rebuilt it in WordPress and put up with a tonne of requests and stuff, even duplicated an ancient horrible design to ease any politics
spent ages working on it
pretty much finished it
but a non web developer failed to deploy it because he naively copied over a database without changing the URLs
and refused to give direct access. Now another engine developer has barged in and implemented CSS styling changes to the original static design and announced it to the community, demanding SSH access to implement it
the project lead is now burying his head in the sand and about $3k worth of work has gone down the drain
it happened to myself a few years ago, after a few weeks of work, someone came up with an unfinished homepage design, people like it, so a server admin implemented it in a table based layout in the early hours of the morning surprising everyone