Rich Brooks over at flyte new media sums up why a content management system (e.g. WordPress) is beneficial to your website. Here are a few outtakes:
Did you ever want to make a change to your Web site but it’s ten past five on a Friday and your developer has left the building? Have you ever wished you could make that small text change rather than paying a developer? Have you ever wanted to easily add pictures or video to your site?
His main points as to why you should convert to a CMS.
- Control Your Web Site
- Control Your Costs
- Control Your Search Engine Visibility
- A Control Center for Your Social Media Presence
He goes into more detail in the full article.

If you like using wordpress as a CMS, you should totally check out concrete5.
It’s free, PHP/MySQL based just like wordpress – but it wasn’t designed from the bottom up to be a blog. Instead it’s a building material that a designer or developer can use to easily build any site that the end site owner can edit. See a typo, just use the toolbar to put the page in edit mode and fix it.
There’s screencasts and instant personal demos at:
http://concrete5.org