Okay this isn't a question or much of a discussion really (feel free to make it into one). After mucking around with Joomla, Drupal, CMSmadeSimple & Expression Engine (which is commercial) I decided to try Wordpress.
Awesome! So damn easy and customisable, it almost sells itself short by being tagged as just blogging software. It suits my requirements, but once I have finished my current project I'll be armed with more understanding in which to move on to learning Joomla or Drupal for projects with different requirements.
CMSmadesimple had some appeal due to completely separating design from content, but it annoyed me that the CSS appeared to be stored in SQL so you couldn't open stylesheets in Dreamweaver.
Joomla was alright but a bit messy and overly complex in some ways and it used tables in the default template.
Drupal & Expression Engine I didn't really give enough time to, if the CMS didn't grab me quickly I moved on, cos I just didn't want to waste too much time doing nothing, I wanted to get stuck in.
Anyway, I'll post a link to the site when it's finished.
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