Michael at Mountain Man Outfitters was one of my first clients. The site I built for him in 2008 was hand-coded using server-side includes, custom bash scripts that assembled javascript image galleries, and hand-polished CSS.
Since then, we have rebuilt the site three times, on Joomla 1.5, Joomla 2.5, and WordPress. The site has migrated smoothly through five server operating system upgrades — all with no appreciable downtime.