We just went through a redesign only to find the styles on the public side of our website are more flexible, more choices, etc. than on the private side. The private side looks kind of boring and harder to work with.   The ability to have non searchable landing pages would also be beneficial since we like to link to other pages (and not having to create a new detail page off of a resource board tile just to get a link to the detail page to link to).

Update May 2016.    Our 8th graders traveled to Israel and we always have a web page where photos and impressions (diary entries) of the students can be posted.  We are using an old podium type page (we can still bring them up) because of the photo albums you can build, the ability to see a nice slideshow of the photos, the ability to download many photos at once and the fact that the permissions to allow editors to edit this web page are more efficient than having to work with current onMessage pages, especially those behind the password.