Quote Originally Posted by remi View Post
Furthermore CMS systems offers the possibility to let your customers edit their content by themself without the danger that they are destroying your well thought out design.
How can anyone destroy something that isn't there? (for people not familiar with smilies this means "a joke").

CMS is what it's called - a content management system. It has nothing to do with design. It allows you to conveniently create and maintain your content, mostly textual, with minimum constrains on it's size and structural complexity. The resulting output in web CMS are the script generated HTML pages which represent this content in a visual form based on the layout information available.

Think of it this way - in a CMS you enter and maintain the text, and all the rest - graphics, design, code is generated automatically, you don't have to worry about it.

If you want to make your own design in CMS, you can customize templates but this is much harder task than creating a graphic site with typical web authoring tool (like Dreamweaver), never mind the XWD.

So it's all about priorities. Look at this board - it has a design which you may spot on hundreds of other forums all over the web. But this is irrelevant since the essence of this site is it's content. Knowing how talented all the moderators and users on TG are one may wonder why it uses default template? The answer is trivial - because no one really cares. The design of this site really doesn't matter at all.

So if you are about to create a site with tons of dynamically altered information, and neither you nor your visitors care a lot about it's unique design, you should go for CMS.
But if your design is important and you don't have a tons of content, it's much better to go for XWD.

Theoretically, you can use both CMS based content and XWD created design to embed it. But I'm not aware if someone had already created such a project.