Hi, Probably this question was asked a thousand times here, but I could not find an answer for myself. Basically, I need a blog integrated on my website. Header and footer will be the same of my website and the body will be the blog software. I cannot implemet wordpress because it is rather complicated. Is there a software easy to install and modify which does not require programming skills?
No theres a bit more to it, he is asking as he wants to be able to have the same header and footer from his site in the blog so that it matches.
Are you using CMS (Content Managemnt System) for your website? If you are using Joomla or Drupal then you can easily integrate wordpress with it.
No, I am not using any CMS software. I only need a simple blog that will match my website. Not looking for lots of functionality.
Wordpress is the easiest CMS to reprogram go to wordpress.org and read the docs about the so called "Loop", all WP activities turn around the Loop, the files are simple php files rather well written so customization isn't hard at all the difficulty is to understand what the Loop is and how it can implement an entire blog, but if you understand it other customizations are trivial
What type of host [windows or linux] are you currently using? If linux-- WordPress is great. Windows-- I would go with a blogger.com blog and ftp to your site. I have integrated a lot of existing site designs with WordPress blogs. See my web hosting - blog for an example. PM me for more info. Q...
It is not so hard to modify Wordpress so that it matches your site. You install it under your current domain in a directory 'blog'. Then go to /blog/wp-content/themes/default/ and modify the following files: header.php and footer.php.