Suggestions Please

[MikeSouth]

Have to agree that wordpress is top choice.

My only concern is that wordpress updates every week or so it seems...making maintaining it a bitch sometimes when themes arent compatible and such

Id look at setting him up a blog on blogspot or something like that...that way the day to day maintenance is done elsewhere but he can still do what you want

[Gyongyos]

Well... I will also vote for Wordpress because in this case the user is inexperienced and some blog scripts and especially Content Management Systems (CMS) are very hard to manage because they require big technical knowledge. Wordpress is one of the best blogging scripts available for free, but if you want to customize it you will certainly need to invest some money. There are many themes, but the good ones are overused so you will most likely need to invest money in the design if you want to make your website to look unique. There are SEO and other plug-ins for Wordpress so cusomizing the website is not a problem at all and even a very beginner users is able to install a wordpress plug-in.

If you are looking for more than a blog script use CMS because you can add custom pages, etc. I would recommend using Joomla.