What CMS would you recommend?

[Howard]

In joomla you will be able to use some good features where in wordpress you can use pretty good themes and can be customized as per your requirements and plugins are the plus points which can help in improving the site quality and web traffic. If familiar with dreamviewer then it will help in showing your own creative. Just need to be little bit of creative.

[Mickey]

Joomla looks hard and complicated but it is not. Once you know how it works, you will be able to manage it easily. For faster learning, you had better get someone tutoring you in using Joomla.