Garri
Do you find TextPattern can handle images? I can see it's OK for text.
I've been looking at subdreamer which appears to do both (plus about 1/2 dozen others) varying from £0 to $40,000....
Incidentally, I haven't had time to look around this forum, and I'm sure you grizzled old-timers are familiar with it, but the classified section of
www.slowtrav.com is worth a serious look, if one's allergic to cms etc., and in particular for anyone who wouldn't know a blog if they stepped on it.
Excellent search engine positioning, knowledgeable, and communicative site owners, seriously interesting site, highly professional layout, good cms-type upload plus images and, most importantly for us, they allow outgoing links (so a good standby while we spend months producing our own definitive site and I needed something for the Alpine summer season). In addition about 2/3 of its 8500 pages are genuine content (rather than ads), which accounts for its high SE positioning I assume.
Cost is seriously good value for the results they produce - punters so far are mainly interesting, laid-back but highly picky North Americans.
Only downside so far, and I'm working on it, is they don't have short urls, so one's page ref. is a bit of a mouthful.
For our (non-specific) keywords we've been steadily on page 1 of Google etc. within 4 weeks, which for $35 / 6 months has to be something approaching awesome (or $50/year) - how long would that take with one's own site?
(and no, there isn't anything in it for me, but you might mention lay-my-hat if you sign-up and 'we' could get a group special offer i.e. extra images etc. and you might gently nudge Pauline, its founder, about getting short and snappy urls - OK, that's solved, see below)