After deciding which way I wanted to take odd: and restructuring the web site to match it was obvious I did not need the complexity of a fully blown CMS. Wordpress seemed like the best choice.
Scot Hanselman (and others) have a download link to the first chapter (more of a section at 1850 pages long!) totally free and totally cool. Get the NerdDinner.com walkthrough here.
You should be saving your work on a regular basis in case of crashes, but for those who forget to cmd+s like clockwork EverSave seems like a great idea.