oi, and this from a forum coordinator! Such behaviour from programmers is a disgrace! Isn't Renderosity in a sense a client to them?
Given the short situation sketch im getting here I believe a decent webdeveloper should have said either:
"no we can not deliver a quality product in this given time frame with this few people on this current budget."
and you let them find someone else. Or, they should've said:
"we can give it our best shot, but be aware that things will take longer (and thus might become more expensive) to really deliver a proper high quality end product."

Oh, and trying to set up a thing like this without ANYONE working as designer is just stupid...

I can imagine how they might not feel like changing things now because its probably going to mean lots of previous work has to be re-done. But that's seriously just the result of the crappy workflow things started out with.
It's seriously disappointing to hear this... Sounds like irresponsible unprofessional mistakes all over the place...

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