Building a Wordpress Theme from a Dreamweaver Site

I am tasked with generating a distributable Wordpress Theme package based on the layout and look of a site built with dream weaver. The site webmaster has given me permission to use their site as the basis for our project. They also provided the CSS and a template.php file to get started. My question is how to get from point A to point B:
Point A --- php based, dreamweaver authored site
Point B --- Wordpress theme package downloadble to install on std wordpress installation to replicate the site.
Looking forward to the best answer I can find --- lol
Point A Site: http://www.samoset.org/
Nicholas

$80 for a first time converting.  Don't underestimate your services, especially if you are in over your head.  The way to get from Point A to Point B depends on your understanding of Wordpress.  Have you worked with Wordpress before and understand it's template structure?  Here's Wordpress docs for a starting point.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

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