First I just want to point out that this article was written three and a half years ago, during a time of signigicantly less modules and plugins.

However, I do see your points and I definitely agree, now there are modules and plugins all over the place that can assist in making websites on content management systems SEO friendly. Can we at least agree there is an argument though that if a website owner has to learn how to implement these (usually more than one to get SEO functionality and the design they dream of) they may be better off learning the basics of dreamweaver and learn overall website building skills?

PS Sorry for my late reply.

What I mean is…

*Limited SEO functionality* - out of the box Drupal and WP are seo friendly. Clean urls, appropriate use of h1 and h2 tags, and a slew of SEO modules. -> http://www.kristen.org/content/drupal-seo-modules
*Restricted HTML editing* - With a little know-how you can manipulate the HTML to your heart’s desire (it’s called “theming”). -> http://drupal.org/documentation/theme
*Design limitations* - Any design can be implemented on WP/Drupal. The limitations fall on the designer, not the CMS.
*Not keeping up to date with new web standards & innovation* - The thousands of developers contributing daily to the open-source community would vehemently disagree.
*Difficult to switch web hosts* - Move the files, move the database, change the nameservers. done.
*Website can look dated* - Why?
*Website can look like a ‘CMS website’* - If you don’t learn how to customize your CMS, sure.
*Price - Can be very expensive if building a custom system* - open-source CMS (WordPress and Drupal) are absolutely free.