One site that I maintain is actually a big FrontPage Web. All the “content” pages are done in FrontPage as normal HTML, since they’re all structured very differently and FrontPage’s WYSIWYG editing and automation are perfectly suited for this. Then, when a page is completed, a record for the page, with some meta information, is put into a database which is used to make sortable, filterable index pages of all the content.
We’ve thought about making the content pages dynamic by running them off an expanded database, but why? They’re simple to create and with proper use of include files and CSS we have yet to have a problem with keeping them maintained and consistent. The site works beautifully the way it is.
Content management is great, but it’s not the answer for everything. Before CMS, there was HTML, and it still works just fine.