Sometimes you just have to push some of the old designs under the rug and start fresh or just freshen up what you have. We were lucky enough to work with SewGreen on just such a project.
We worked with SewGreen to take their existing design and gave it a facelift. We incorporated their design into a new easier to use template that provided them with more flexibility to add news on a daily/weekly basis and still keep the original aesthetic, but with a few twists. Check them out http://www.sewgreen.org/.