I’m a CMS Convert.

I really haven't liked the idea of CMS systems for clients.  I'm not interested in rolling my own, and I haven't spent long enough with any of the CMS systems out in the wild to evaluate them.   From the short look I've seen, the actual content management is very hard for users to pick up - to the point they wouldn't bother.  And I'm definately not going to bother writing my own...

HOWEVER - there IS one thing that that a CMS will do for me.  Save development time.  I will be able to establish a reasonable layout for a website with a client, and then put it into a CMS system.  The CMS will make it very easy for me to change content when required, or if the client is kind of clever, they can do it themselves.

The thing that slows my work down is interruptions for small change requests.  So a CMS will help me either reduce the time required to make those changes, or eliminate them all together by passing those tasks over to the client.