Happy New Year to all of you helpful designers. I want to merge the look of the wordpress blog into the rest of the site. Is it possible to do like a frame in the middle of the html file, and put wordpress there? Like inserting a table on the html file, and change that table to wordpress? And maybe put the same blogroll links on the html site, like menu's? And how do I do with: domain.com/blog/index.php? Should I have the: domain.com/blog/index.html in the same directory? Which one will Google consider as the master of them? Or should I do the other way around and implement the html design into wordpress? it must be harder to do it that way. By the way: I'm not interested in hiring a webdesigner for this. I would like to learn how to do this. Have a nice 2008!
Just use WordPress as a content management system and run both the site and blog off of it. Though I'd wait for WordPress 2.4 to come out in 28 days.
Thanks Dan. I will do that in 28 days with wordpress 2.4. content management system, CMS, seems necessary and interesting to learn then. I still think that I can "insert table" in a .html file and replace the table with the blog, but I don't know the code for that. By the way Dan; Interesting SEO info you have in your signature; Thanks!
What do you mean by "insert table"? (I've been hand-coding Web sites for five years now in case you're wondering.)
That's just a way to project my picture in my head. Let's explain my inner picture like this: You can select a new template with frames in Dreamweaver. That could be 2, 3 or 4 frames in one site. left, right, top or bottom oriented. (It's cool and impressing with Guru's like you, coding in Notepad, But I really recommend you to try a "drag and drop" WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) html editor, specially Dreamweaver CS3. There's a 30 days trial and you will be addicted!) There must be a way to add a frame the other way around; to do a "whole" in the middle of the site, and paste code in that hole to insert the blog there. I just want the same look of the blog as the rest of the site, as I mentioned.
This is no problem. I did it with my site - http://fiercestreetnetworks.com/ - You can get to the blog from the site's top navigation (or get to it here: http://fiercestreetnetworks.com/weblog/ ). Basically, what I did was install WordPress on a sub-folder, and use the "sandbox theme" - which uses BARE XHTML. Then I just edited the CSS/theme template pages to match my site. Now every new post looks like the rest of the site.
I would go the ESP way. I actually made mine look a bit different than my site. I have my domain (well, one of them) on the domain and the other in a folder /blog/. Learning to change the template in php is not easy for the right brained. You can do it but I would recommend downloading the page, (saving a backup) and making small changes and testing on the server. Some things you can manipulate in the admin section, other things you can't and you have to hand code it. I don't write php but I do understand how it works and can cut and paste it like a madwoman.