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1) Drupal is powerful but if you aren't a php developer, have funds, have patience or experience with drupal, it will take you a long time to get up something that looks good and not like stock drupal.

2) Joomla is OK. Looks great, many designs, not impressive from a performance standpoint, can be a hassle to manage content as it gets larger, and is much higher in load than others. Modules are generally plentiful, some good but most are just awkward additions shoved into the software. I find it most useful to use Joomla for smaller corporate type sites where I need something up very quickly that looks very good.

3) Wordpress - if it's simple it works very well. Can be adapted to blogs. Personally my CMS of choice, surprised that I found it to be the best for most uses, at least IMHO.