"In short, I think that markup is too important to be left in the hands of the people who make content management systems. They all too often don’t care enough about it, and they can never know the context that you will be using it in, and so in my opinion they shouldn’t be trying to guess."

"Trying to fix an organization’s content problems by installing a content management system is like trying to save a marriage by booking a holiday." from A List Apart.

"...working in an agile manner, developing what should be there, instead of wasting money and time on a CMS filled to the brim with bulky features that most people don’t need nor want."

We love Textpattern is a design gallery dedicated to showcasing sites created using the free, flexible, elegant, and easy-to-use content management system

Simple content management for simple websites

a really little content management system.

general overview of Drupal. from nettuts.

training, quality, functionality, redundancy and flexibility, and commitment. from vitamin.

usability, accessibility, and front-end code.

big red angry text and older, deprecated design.

Textpattern is a flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. It is both free and open source.