Best tools for making a small to medium size website

PlayAlongKeys

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If you were making a small to medium size website from scratch today that included, as part of it, blog sorts of posts as well as product information and listings, what would you use? In my case, I didn't need to do eCommerce, though I'd certainly consider doing it if the need arose

One of my fairly recent sites is playalongkeys.com, where I talk about my free music game, list songs and give some of my thoughts on music and tech in general. I did it using WordPress, which I also used for a website for the school where I teach. It went pretty smoothly, but in the past I've used tools like DreamWeaver and others.

There is probably stuff around that's perhaps far better and free or not expensive to use that I am not aware of.