Eastern Wordpress ver. 2.0
I was given a bit more freedom by this point, and allowed to open up the home page more so it could breathe. The icons didn't last too long, sadly, because they were "too colorful"...
But at least I got rid of the content tabs in the middle of the page. So you win some, you lose some.
Wordpress 2.0, secondary pages
Similar design to the home page, this particular page (Current Students) was for important pages that needed to be "just the facts, ma'am", ostensibly.
The right section was/is a news ticker, which was a royal pain to set up but had some nifty functionality (scrolled, drew from posts of a particular category, removed automatically via expiration date).