I've been developing mostly freehand until now. But there seems to be some benefits making a web-page inside a cms. I've had a quick look at Joomla, and I've testet Drupal (the latter seems a little simple, and the first I didn't understand well).
Which CMS do you use? Why?
Any recomodations?
(I'm most interested in free/open source)
At the moment it has got to be Joomla, v1.5 is very powerful and they have fixed a lot of the "creek" of 1.0. Investing some time in a CMS is the only why to fully appriciate what it can do though.
I highly recommend Drupal, it's flexible, open source, powerful and easy to build on. We've built a revolutionary video management system upon it with ease :-)