In reply to Tim Kaye.

Scott, I wasn't confused. While I have some sympathy with your view that WordPress sometimes gets recommended when it isn't appropriate, I don't think it's a major problem -- certainly not for any business with plans to scale. It might require a short-term investment of time, but that will more than pay off later. A well-chosen managed WordPress host will take care of many of the issues anyway.

My point is that a much bigger problem is caused by those fixated on enabling more front-end fiddling, a la Word, on the specious basis that it improves the user experience. It doesn't. It just wastes more time and encourages the creation of awful-looking websites.

What businesses need is a site that is well built and designed from the beginning, and then a clean, distraction-free environment in which to add to the content from time-to-time.