Dreamweaver WordPress Compatibility

I have a client that needs a website created that will have the usual web pages as well as an events/calendar page and an interactive blog with a comment posting section. They want it designed in word press because after it is complete they are going to train in word press so they can update the site themselves in the future. I only know dreamweaver and my question is this:
Can I create it in Dreamweaver then give them the files and have it be totally compatible with word press once they get it? In other words when (and if they can) pop the files into word press everything will work and look perfect and they will be able to sucessfully take it from there doing the updates themselves with word press? Or does it have to be created in word press from the start.
Thanks,
Paul W.

not taking anything away from word press, its a great blogging tool... but it's not really a cms. with that said, if you hack apart anything enough, you can make it cms like.
Can you "pop the files into word press everything will work and look perfect"... NO. word press is another one of those open source solutions that require you build the website around their solution, rather than add it to what you've already done. You will need to create and modify word press html/css files in code view to achieve the look/feel of the website, and download plugins to gain the functionality they will want... and using word press, your clients can fubar your design. are there people using word press successfully as a cms... yes... but it's not what it's designed to do.
I would encourage you to tell your clients to use something that can be added to an existing design, like incontext from adobe, or cushy cms, or similar. It's a css triggered cms which makes it incredibly easy to work with, and flexible as well. If you're a more advanced coder, you can also create your own cms... after all, it's just update server behaviors and database driven content... it's really that basic.

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