I think we have come a long ways since the days you need to write everything from scratch just to get a basic web site up and running to get your idea across.

I think we have come a long ways since the days you need to write everything from scratch just to get a basic web site up and running to get your idea across. Have you check out Umbraco? It's a CMS but very easy to use and extend. You can get your basic site up and running in no time. If you want to extend it further, you have custom control that you can add using XSLT, Java Script, C#, etc... This way, you can focus on building your idea instead of building a web site.