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What is it with Wordpress?

by TyBrown
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I love how Wordpress sites look. They have such a crisp, clean feel to them. In fact, I have a few wordpress sites.

I have another site, though, that I want to get redesigned (communicanine dot net). I want it to have the same look and feel of a wp site. I don't want to switch it to a wp site, though. I want to be able to continue editing it in dreamweaver.

This may be a silly question (I'm not a tech, software, or design expert) but is it possible for me to get that look in a regular html site? Are there any designers out there that do that kind of work?
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    The "design" of a site can be done however you want. The Wordpress part is more on the backend of the site that helps manage all the content/links/categories...etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author shaddai
      Find a site you like, grab a screen shot & dump it into Photoshop. Then have photoshop do an auto slice to the image & spit out your table layout and the graphics for it.

      Voila...your graphics now look like whatever site you were looking at...and the table will drop into dreamweaver.

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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Taylor
    Most of what you see in the browser actually is just HTML (minus videos, animations, dynamic do-dads like countdown timers, etc). Wordpress takes a template, adds dynamic bits and pieces, shakes it up and pours out an HTML document.

    Hit Google up for "free CSS templates". With a bit of hunting, you'll be able to find hundreds of good looking HTML (along with CSS style sheets) templates that should work well for you. Just add content manually.
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  • Profile picture of the author markshields
    Yeah thats true I agree the wordpress part of the site is just backend programming, the actual look and feel of the website is more to do with the theme / template being used which isnt neccessarily from wordpress
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      Just find a site or sites you like and use them to make your design in dreamweaver. For one client I made a site and matching blog. The blog is WP, the site isn't. It's hard to tell the difference.
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