Some techie background: We're using our own WordPress template derived from the commercial Reach theme from EugeneO. That theme made stylistically and code-wise a very professional impression. It's extremely well programmed and easy to handle. Posting became a pleasure and even extending the theme or changing small design issues turned out to be straigt forward (given you have some basic PHP and WordPress knowledge, but the Internet is your friend).

It was really a big time-saver to go for a commercial theme this time and it's not even that expensive. After all, we payed 35$ at ThemeForest, which is definitely worth spending. Thanks EugeneO! Including all the image editing, text writing, upgrading and cleaning of old content I got the new design up and running in less than one week. Compared to the one month it took last year it felt like a massive improvement.