Content Management Sucks

It seems to me that most CMS systems out there are just plain crap: All I want is a quick and easy wiki-like system to build a new website with as I don't have the time to crank it by hand, yet all of the wikis and CMS systems I've tried are either made far too heavyweight and complicated (I'm looking at you TikiWiki) or completely over-simplified with no real control over the look, feel or maintenace (yes, you PHP Wiki).

On the CMS front, I tried Drupal which isn't too bad, but it seems geared towards the blog-style homepage users; I want a site with static elements, wiki elements, and a blog. Yeah, okay, it's perhaps a lot to ask of any system and I don't expect it to do all of these things perfectly, but I had trouble finding anything that can do ANY of these things particularly well. Drupal manages its field very well, but it didn't meet all of my needs so I had to move on.

Currently I am faffing with PHPWebSite which makes it relatively easy to do the site-building part, but not the Wiki elements I need. Still, I can probably just install something else to do that and try and theme it to look the same. Although I've not tried too hard, it looks like it can handle blog-like elements fairly well too, so it seems like the best solution at the moment. Now I've just got to wrestle with the themes side of it: There's no admin interface for installing them, you have to manually arse around at the filesystem level to get them to work, which is a shame as the admin interface seems fairly well thought out on the whole.

The next problem is the lack of freely available themes, I'm probably going to end up hand-cranking one: Which is exactly what I was trying to avoid.