Can either Wordpress.com & Wordpress.org be used to build a good website as good or nearly as good as Dreamweaver , Frontpage or another site building software ? I should also mention it will be a content website , creative & very easy for a person who is a beginner to build as well as have many ways in which it can be monetized.
Nobody would use Dreamweaver or Frontpage to build a website anymore, that way of thinking went out the door when CMS systems became available a very long time ago. They are used for one off pages or for doing design. You can build an excellent site using WordPress but look at your business requirements and you may find other CMS systems do a better job but WordPress is an excellent starting point. I've built traditional blogs with it but also extended it to create sites that look nothing like a blog and have done ecommerce.
Is there a particular site building system besides wordpress you would recommend - what is easiest/creative to start wordpress.com or wordpress.org or does it matter much as I have used SBI's blockbuilding system before which was fairly easy.
heh, DW is very 2005, yes you can build an amazing website with it, just like you could do it via notepad... WP allows a lot of customization and allows you to use a lot of plugins with minimal knowledge of HTML.