Oh so are you the mentor? Oh yea that's what held us back too!
Our mentor knew absolutely nothing about web design and wanted me to update the news every five minutes like some news site and throw animated gif's everywhere. After doing one animated gif and writing javascript for it to repeat, all my div layers crapped out on me, therefore wasting a week of troubleshooting. THEN The sql tables failed and we had to back up to and old old backup and loose most of the stuff I had done.
I hated this year in terms of the website, last year was way more fun, with a cool mentor and helpful team members.