I have been using Joomla since the lead development team for Mambo left around 5 years back to create Joomla CMS and have been very happy with it as I found the main aspect with choosing a framework is not so much the tech under the hood, but rather the strength of the community and access to support behind it as key elements for future scaling

A blog, as with any website, is only as valuable as the content published on it. If you intend to use a blog to create your web presence you would need to ensure that what you intend blogging about is valuable and of interest to other people and also - and probably the most important commitment - if you intend to blog - are you going to blog daily and consistently - i.e. daily... maybe weekly? Remember a blog is an online diary - so the point is to update information daily so that the content is fresh, informative and interesting, this way you can build up a followership and hopefully some discussions etc. ask yourself: - why do you want to use a blog to create your online presence? - is the information you plan to offer going to be helpful and interesting to others? - are you looking for an online presence for the purposes of growing your business or is it something personal? - if it is for business, do you plan to have a static informative (marketing website) as well as the blog? - if no, then is the blog going to be sufficient? Will people know who and what I do and offer from my blog? Hope this offers some help... I do websites for a living - so if you need any advice that you want to discuss outside of the forum, please feel free to contact me, else I am happy to offer any advice and help here as well :)