As you pointed out, I've used Wordpress for stuff before, and I've been reasonably happy with it. It's good for the 80% case where you just need to put up a simple-ish site, and don't need it to do too much other than show some content you put there.
If you are going to use Wordpress, I highly recommend beginning with the Toolbox theme and writing a child theme based on it. I didn't do that for the Stranger Ways site, but I did for the PLOT site, and it made things a lot easier to customize.
I've also used Radiant on a few sites (Alleged Entertainment and the Journey marketing site both use it). It's got some cool ideas in it, and being a Rubyist, I like working with it, but it's not as easy to get going with as Wordpress, and frankly is probably not worth the trouble unless you're deeply invested in Rails.
The other thing I've worked with a bit is nanoc, which is one of the new bunch of static site compilers (the most popular of which is Jekyll). The idea here is that you write your site using some simple text-ish format like Markdown, write a template to stick the content into, run the compiler, and rsync the HTML files it generates up to your web server. Then you've frontloaded all the computation work and your site loads really fast. If you think you can get away with having all your pages be static HTML, then this is possibly worth looking into.
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Date: 2011-06-21 02:46 pm (UTC)If you are going to use Wordpress, I highly recommend beginning with the Toolbox theme and writing a child theme based on it. I didn't do that for the Stranger Ways site, but I did for the PLOT site, and it made things a lot easier to customize.
I've also used Radiant on a few sites (Alleged Entertainment and the Journey marketing site both use it). It's got some cool ideas in it, and being a Rubyist, I like working with it, but it's not as easy to get going with as Wordpress, and frankly is probably not worth the trouble unless you're deeply invested in Rails.
The other thing I've worked with a bit is nanoc, which is one of the new bunch of static site compilers (the most popular of which is Jekyll). The idea here is that you write your site using some simple text-ish format like Markdown, write a template to stick the content into, run the compiler, and rsync the HTML files it generates up to your web server. Then you've frontloaded all the computation work and your site loads really fast. If you think you can get away with having all your pages be static HTML, then this is possibly worth looking into.