Integration with Dreamweaver

Question

Hi,
I've built my website using a combination of Dreamweaver CS3,
PHP and MySQL. I've also added a forum (phpbbb), photo gallery
(coppermine) and blog (wordpress). Problem is, I'm not satisfied
with how each of these integrates into the look and feel of my
website, also having to launch into a seperate windows.
Each has (unless I'm not doing something right), limited
capabilities to tailor the colors, add my header & footer, etc.
As these are pretty common tools, I'm hoping someone will have a
suggestion on either other tools that I can more easily integrate
into my existing site or help with how to properly apply CSS to
these tools.
Hope I've posted this in the right place. Thanks.

Answer 1

If you have already integrated these into your site then you
have done a good job. I have no experience of the tools you mention
but with regard to launching in separate windows, have you tried
setting the link target to _parent to load in main window?
For the overall look and feel of your site you have a couple
of options.
1. Apply dreamweaver templates to the tools. If this does not
work then you have a more complex option.
2. I'm assuming you already have css in your own pages. You
may have to add your css by <style> tags or insert a link to
your css file. This should somewhat change text and link to match
your own. As for header and footer You could add these by using a
file include. IE, create just the header and footer in separet html
files and then see if you can include them in the top and bottom of
the pages you need to. It will take time if the tools have many
pages because you may have to do it manually.
Regards
Paul