In reply to Laura Brown.

If what you want is a 5-page brochure site where you don't update the content more than once a year, WordPress is a bad choice, though I don't think Blogger would be better. You're probably better off looking for an HTML site-building tool (e.g. Blocs for Mac) or using something like Wix (though I hesitate to mention them just at present given their bad behavior) or SquareSpace. If you just want a blog, you could use WordPress.com and never encounter a custom post type. But for the kind of sites many of us build, which use many types of content, this is good news. You could use it to create different layouts within a single portfolio post type, for instance, when people do different kinds of work.