I’ve written at length about how the disadvantages of Content Management Systems (CMS) usually out-weigh the benefits.
The latest, hottest CMS is WordPress. People are building websites using it and touting it as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
The first thing to know about WordPress is it is blogging software. So why are people using it to build websites? Yes, you can do it, but it isn’t designed for that.
It is, however, free, and for free software, it is pretty good. It may well be the best free CMS for rapidly and easily building a website.
Of course, saying something is the best free software is like saying “the best car manufactured in Croatia.”
We’ve done a website in WordPress ourselves – but it was a situation where the website was mainly a blog, and the person couldn’t afford the professional grade software we normally use for blogs (Movable Type). And guess what, it was harder to work with and there were things you couldn’t do or that didn’t quite work right. About what you expect for free software.
Claims that WordPress is great for SEO are exaggerated. In contrast to many CMS, it doesn’t make it very difficult or impossible to do SEO.
My two cents worth.