web building software

[Kevin Brown]

> With Mambo, Joomla, or Drupal, (do not touch Post-Nuke or any other 
> Nuke)  you have a full web applications package.  Calendars, news, news 
> feeds,  mail list subscriptions, forums, blog-like stuff, file 
> downloads, files  are cataloged by category, website is searchable, 
> etc.  You have much less  control over the look of the page, you may 
> only download templates from  websites and install them, then maybe put 
> up a logo and some  advertisements, but you have your super-sweet tools, 
> and they're usable in  minutes.

Not sure I understand this statement.  If the site is controlled by 
templates and you can only download them from the Net, then where did 
those templates come from, because it sure sounds like you can customize 
the look of the site by coding up your own template...