Today I launched the blog you're reading thanks to Viviti.com - an easy to use (beta) content management system that's made primarily for people with no design or programming experience. Fortunately, it allows designers to upload their own designs as well, so that's what I did.
Although the documentation isn't complete yet, I'd still recommend Viviti to anyone looking for a simple solution to blogging. There are a bunch of ready made templates (they call them themes), and if you want to upload your own all you need to know is standards compliant css and xhtml (no funny code or square brackets). You can download a sample theme with a cheatsheet to get started once you log in.
Rather than a separate control panel to manage the content, you can edit your Viviti site in place using a toolbar and friendly ajax popup dialogs. This thing smokes Wordpress for simplicity in my opinion.
Since you can map a domain to your Viviti page via cname, I foresee Viviti being a terrific and (currently) free content management solution for web design clients. You'll need to request a beta key from Viviti to use it. Check it out and let me know what you think!
