[jbergens]

Many CMS's have limitations in what they allow you to style. The needs kind of clash, the system wants simple templates that every page should follow but writers may want to be able to put some extra styling here and there. For full freedom you basically end up with a programming language. Otherwise the more advanced things gets really hard to do (iterate over each news-blurb and show it but paginate it to only 5 items per page). Just allowing the user to add a few images to a page and have them show up nicely is pretty hard if you don't control the layout hard.