Adding a blog to a pre-existing church website? How?

[dlcjonathan]

im thinking about taking the iframe approach. The blog is for members and unbelievers. the goal is to spread truth & increase traffic, through search engines and links. will the iframe accomplish this goal?

what are the negatives of using an i frame?

[randyvogl]

Johnathan,
Best and easiest way to integrate the blog into your design is to take your existing website and create a new theme using wordpress. I just had my first experience with wordpress last week and was able to create a completely integrated blog in less than 8 hours. Now it takes a little bit of programming to get there which I am assuming you have but if you have MySQL and Php installed on your server then you won't have any problems. I would suggest against the <iframe> solution because I frames have a static size which does not work well with dynamic content. Best way to start in customizing a theme is to pick on that you like. Then download it unzip and first thing you want to do is update the style.css in the home directory to your own information... Otherwise you might run into issues later. Trust me... been there done that. Then put the theme into the wp-content/themes directory. Then start editing the header,footer.php, and index.php files until you get the results you are looking for, you are going to have a little harder time than I did because your web page is structured with tables I just had to insert the index.php into the correct div and everything grew appropriately, and depending on how you programmed the web page you might have issues there. If you want to see my integration with wordpress pm me and I will send you a link.
Thanks,
Randy Vogl

[randyvogl]

Johnathan,
I have looked at your code and tried to give you a place to start... this only took about 6 min so there could be errors so make sure to backup your blog directory before making any adjustments, then copy the default folder in the themes folder to your desktop rename to "desertlife". Then change all the comments in the head of the style.css document to match your own info and put into the themes directory. I tried to attach the code to the post but I can't do that yet so I will try and PM you with it.

[dlcjonathan]

thanks to my main man Randyv i was able to get this blog started. Wanted to share the link to the blog and see what you guys think.

http://desertlifechurch.com/dlblog/

also see the RSS feed widget on home page