Joomla Pros Does not give readers the feel of a blog Allows for people to view a site as static, with some changing content, rather than continually changing content Has nice layouts for recent news, most popular articles Allows for complete customization Cons The backend is a little hard to get used to. It will take awhile to learn how to navigate through the administration and add things. Still a CMS Unique layouts are going to be a little harder to find
Or use ThemeDreamer and then you can edit your WordPress theme in Dreamweaver. You get the best of both worlds: an easy to use CMS and the WYSIWYG editing power of Dreamweaver.
it's amazing what wordpress can do. i learn something new all the time about their features. i might have to look into more and maybe use it myself instead of using other web design softwares.