It depends on what kind of site you are trying to build. There is not just wordpress, if you are not satisfied with it, there are 100's of other. I would sugges

It depends on what kind of site you are trying to build. There is not just wordpress, if you are not satisfied with it, there are 100's of other. I would suggest you to find/search and give them a look before you start coding yourself from scratch. It will save your hell lot of time and enable you build a smart website that works really good.