The site was running off regular HTML, which I updated daily through Dreamweaver [pain], and I needed something which I could update easier that would also allow other people to update stuff without having to have my computer in front of them. So I started with regular Joomla, and converted most of the stuff in a couple of days. Since then--I'd say it's been about a month and a half--I've been constantly messing with it, tweaking it, trying different components/mods/plugs here and there.
It's still a work in progress though. Good luck on your site, if you have any more questions, let me know...I may be able to help you out.