Na, I don't see Wordpress working for you on this one. Unless it is purely a blog, you should stay away from blog software and use more advanced CMS.
I was asking that ques from Menj as he said " stay away from joomla at all costs " so i was wondering if he has got some specific reason for it , but thnx
Don't mean to repeat everyone, but it does depend on your needs. I have used WordPress as a CMS for many websites and I simply find it more intuitive to work with than Mambo. In fact, I converted all my Mambo sites to WordPress. I recently had a need for a real estate type mod and Joomla had it via the Hot Property plugin. I installed Joomla, but I can't say that I have played with it much. Initially, I tried to stay away from it because I was concerned that it had adopted all the messy spaghetti code of Mambo (maybe was Menj is referring to?). I haven't taken a look under the hood to know if this is true or not, but then I heard an excellent podcast interview with Mitch Pirtle that got me quite excited about where they want to take Joomla with 1.5: http://podcast.phparch.com/main/index.php/episodes:20060714
You can use WordPress as a CMS but it needs some template edits. That's how flexible Wordpress is. http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
For an SAT site, I suggest that you go with Joomla. As much as Wordpress is awesome for publishing your articles, Joomla I think will be a better fit for an SAT site. You want a "website" not really a "blog" for the site you're thinking of.
Big and fat: I'm assuming you mean code-bloat, large footprint? I think that's purely a matter or opinion Ugly: how can a CMS be ugly? It's not the CMS the end users see, it's the templated site. And many are far from ugly Heck - for free and open, I have no complaints whatsoever
Joomla is so slow to work with... For a content developer using it day to day it like watching mold grow...
I personally use WP over Joomla. Ive used both and I prefer WP as a CMS. My main reasons are its easy to make changes to the code and its very intuitive (and my coding sucks but wordpress looks after me). Sometimes Joomla can get messy when you dont do things in the right order or you have permission problems. Wordpress without any changes isnt a very good CMS, with a few plugins however, its AMAZING.
Joomla is realy slow. If you can edit and manage joomla around, it wont be such a load on your server and mysql as it is by default.