WP - Expert help needed

Hi All.


I've not a lot of experience with WP and trying to set up a site with WP as a CMS.

There will be some static pages as well as the blog, but even after searching forums and the plugins I've not found out how to get the look I want, static pages not showing the blog functions but the blog showing, edit, categories, archives and so on.

On static pages I don't want the blog stuff , edit, archives, categories and so on to appear. But on the blog pages I still want all the common blog functions. So there are two distinct page types - static and blog.

I've had a look around the plguins and found some that seem to let a user arriving at the site choose a theme but nothing that will let me pick one for the static pages and another for the blog pages.

How can this be achieved? Is there a theme that does this?

I'm most concerned about making the static page look just like the pages on a static site, it's not to hard until I try to keep the blog as well and then the changes I made (or theme choice) spill over onto the Blog pages and the blog looses a lot of it's functions.

I could make 2 matching themes with Artisteer and then install WP twice once as a cms for the static and again for the blog but it's nasty and clumsy.

Is there an elegant way to use two themes, do I even need two themes?

If I link a page to a parent page and save it how can I then edit the link to change to a different parent? I just had to trash n rebuild some pages I wanted to move.



Many Thanks aamcle