Why Google Sites & Blogger over proprietary system?

• Goals?
• Who updates?
  
• Email posts to blogger.com
• Categorize posts via tags
• Relatively infinite design, programming and hosting resources
• Easier to maintain (?)
• I don't like the way the proprietary system paints the page with every link.
• The proprietary sites I've seen are very rough.
• How many people in the proprietary organization?
• If the proprietary organization doesn't work out, we can't can't someone else to work on the site for us because it's a proprietary system. We'd have to rebuild the site.
• Here are a couple sites:
• Saint Andrew and Saint John
• Saint Andrew's Newcastle
• Example
• Dr. Mel Levine in Bangor - April 30, 2008
  
• The pages are slow to load.
• Caveats:
• I am not a designer
• I am not a copy writer
• I understand function
  
• Spencer suggested that we look at the Acadia Senior College web site here.
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
• Service times should be first and formost - that's mostly what people want to see
• No fluff language.
• Money