I like WordPress a lot – it’s my #1 tool for simple web sites. We use it for The Barking Seal Blog (this site!), but I also use it for a variety of more traditional sites, including the TechFest website, and even my personal wedding web site!
WordPress isn’t everything, and if you’re looking for a CMS with the longest feature list, don’t bother trying it. But if you want a reasonably-customizable web site that almost any end-user can update, I endorse it. Try WordPress.com if you’re not comfortable managing your own web server.
For the technical folks in the audience, it’s easy to install the free WordPress.org version on any server that supports the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). It is infinitely customizable (if you know PHP, HTML, and CSS), but will probably meet most your needs “out of the box”.
If you do use WordPress.org, there are a few plugins that are worth installing… here are the ones that I think every WordPress.org administrator should consider: