Trust me on this one.  I don’t care who you end up doing your site with (well, I’d rather you end up with us, but that’s besides the point) but please, please, please do yourself a huge favor and make sure your site creator is giving you a content management system (CMS).  Any good site designer/programmer should at least give you the ability to make simple text changes or very content specific changes to pages on your site.  We’ve seen too many people get left in the dust when their site design company closed up once their project was done, never to return again.  As the site OWNER, you entirely reserve the right to make changes to YOUR site quickly and easily.  

Of course we will always recommend our own CMS, The Guts, over any other alternative but here are a few good open source options if you’re out there looking. Trust us on this though: If you’re not a programmer, you’re better off to let someone who knows what they are doing install any of these for you.

Drupal

Expression Engine