Comment Faced the same problem - wrote my own CMS (Score 3, Interesting) 322
I faced the same problem with friends and professional clients - a mixture of common problems left them mith a real mess, and wary of consultants and designers.
I ended up writing my own Content Management System, and am now trying to slow things down...
I haven't even finished writing it and the company I work for (a systems integrator) want to license it for commercial use for several big projects. I have agreed with them to let me keep it open source and free for non commercial use - so you can find out about it on the PluggedOut webspace where I give all kinds of code away.
Actually - the CMS project has been a real eye opener to the problems of getting corporates to understand open source... another story for another time