There are many reasons why a WordPress site is better for you than a traditional static site. The main ones being:

• You don’t have to call up your web person every time you want to make edits to the content
• Super easy to upload photos, videos, music, documents, etc…
• It’s optimized for search engines from the get go.
• Add and remove pages easily from the admin panel and the links take care of themselves
• Ready-to-go communication system via comments and RSS
• Thousands of plug-ins to enhance the site’s functionality

Although WordPress is well known as a blogging platform, you don’t have to include a blog section in your site, it can be purely undated pages. Virtual Impax just published an informative and informal little post about whether a blog is a good idea for your business too.

I just made a small site with relatively few pages based on a free template. It’s for The Other Café- a SF comedy club’s page for an upcoming reunion. It features a gallery, submission forms and a fair few custom graphics. As articles are submitted it will grow and is now ranked #1 on Google after a few short weeks for the search terms: (The) Other Cafe, a testiment to WordPress’s impressive in-built SEO.

I just read an excellent article that explains what the various options are for your website and also has good definitions of terms like CMS, Platform and pros and cons of various approaches.

Click on over there, then come back and if you have any questions.