Alternative to Wordpress

Dumb question: why? ;^)

I'm not sure I understand your question. WordPress is for blog sites
(typically), but you mention you have a domain name and something
already done in Dreamweaver that you want to have WordPress look like?

My experience is that WordPress is fine for what it is: a tool to manage
blog posts. You can change its look, and you can add photos and such
to a post, as well as off-page links.

I've been working on some stuff for a realtor, and have a web site (with its
own unique URL) and a WordPress site (with a different URL that reflects
the name of the blog). The two link to each other, and depending on his
marketing, you'll go to either the blog or the website.

So maybe my question to you is: what are you trying to accomplish? Are
you looking to make the WordPress site your main web site? If so, as you've
discovered, it's not the same as a full-fledged web host site, so you can't do
all that you want.

Hope this helps . . .

You learn it or pay someone to do it.

Currently looking for a freelance person in my area to mod my site.

You can use a ready to use online platform and redirect your domain name.

i have also heard of dotclear, which is pretty good.

The CSS on the themes is fairly easy to modify, so why not give it a go?

If you're really having trouble, you'll need to hire someone to build you a theme, or help you build it at least.

There are more than a few designers/developers here who you could ask (myself included).

/Doug

To the powers that be:
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http://themetation.com/2008/07/14/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-1/
http://themetation.com/2008/07/15/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-2/
http://themetation.com/2008/07/17/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-3a/
http://themetation.com/2008/07/17/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-3b/

Enjoy!

If you open up the themes folder on your hosting site you can manipulate the CSS there. You can upload jpegs to the images folder of any wordpress theme and change the look of the template easily enough.

One option is to just pull in your blog posts via RSS using something like Magpie RSS. In this case, just include Magpie on the pages where you want blogs, pull in as many posts as you want and format as needed. This is done a lot of places. Applegeeks does it and I use it on one of my sites (I chose to display only a portion of an entry, but you can display your entire blog using this).

There's lots of "skeleton" themes out there to help you get started.

Hey man,

WordPress is very modifiable. I have built whole websites (not just blogs, but full-featured websites with dynamic and static content) using a WordPress back-end. I have found the custom fields to be especially useful. BUT you have your work cut out for you as there is plenty to learn. It has been worth it to me—ymmv...

You should probably look around at the WordPress Codex. There is a lot of very thorough documentation there. The forums are also pretty active and a lot of helpful folks frequent them. You may have better luck if you read up on what you can accomplish with WordPress, and then post back here with a more specific question.

That said, as someone mentioned, you can access your theme's stylesheet by navigating to wp-content/themes/yourtheme/style.css. Replace yourtheme with...your theme...Kubrick is the default I think. Also, as someone else mentioned, if you are just incorporating a blog into a site that contains static content, it might be a good idea to create a wordpress blog and then link to it from the site that you created in DW.

Anyway, someone can correct me if I am wrong here, but I don't think you are going to be able to use a WYSIWYG editor here—you are probably going to have to delve into some code.

Apologies for not really answering your original question, but I do like working with WordPress so it may be worth it to stick it out and really learn what it can do. If you decide to stick with WordPress, take the time to go through this guy's tutorial. It is a good crash course in the way WordPress on organized. It may be a bit outdated now, but I think the vast majority still applies.

Good luck to you!