Tim,
What about a Drupal site?

Drupal might also be acceptable - but original site built upon Joomla and non-technical staff who will be using it are more familiar w/Joomla.

I could be convinced to change though

Tim

Drupal6 has 3 features that currently still sets it technically apart from Joomla1.5:

- ACL: elaborate Access Control Lists;
- CCK: Content Creation Kit. The ability to add custom content types;
- Deep taxonomies.

All three issues will be addressed in Joomla 1.6. At the same time, Joomla 1.6 will implement JForm and JContent, and achieve better source code density, which should become similar to the excellent source code density that you find in Drupal6. This has to an important extent already been achieved in the current beta. Joomla 1.6 final is expected to hit the shelves before April 2010.

At the same time, Drupal 6 and 7 will keep suffering from their notoriously confused architecture, their damaging lack of direction, as well as lack of backward compatibility. Drupal really looks like an eternal experiment continuously trying to find itself.

Site administrators, graphical designers, and other users simply do not understand Drupal, nor how to actually build sites with it, while they do understand Joomla.