Well lets see if I can sort some stuff out for you…
The website http://www.wcu.edu
A lot of the upper levels (read Vice Chancellors) wanted to gear the site towards attracting new students to the site (which they have done I think). The new design is somewhat of a Work in Progress, but I think its mostly content that is going to change at this point other than layout.
The web team–Jed Tate, Amy Walker and Newt Smith (director) is not being retired, they have however implimented Red Dot as their content management system to assist the different departments with getting the new content up to the new site. And the team itself is going to be very busy in the next year or so changing all the departmental pages to the new format.
I think some of the layout will change but that will be driven by the content/need for things (so complain to the departments that you want the changes made to their site)
and for the teal background…. all of ITS was like WTF Mate?!?!?!?!? and all of Web Services was like ‘we did studies and it works….cough cough*bs*cough ‘
Everyone is trying to learn the new ways to navigate the site so hopefully it will get better/you will like it more in the near future.