How do I use WB2 Template WITHIN an existing website?

[Steve Bannister]

We have a school website, and a weather station page within that website. I would like to use the Weather Blues 2 template, to run within that page. Like a subset of pages. How though, would we be able in integrate within our existing website and link between the two, and still keep the feel of the original website. This is our existing page within the site; http://calingirips.com.au/weather-station/

Our web host company have asked me to ask you how this can be done.

Many thanks in advance,

Steve Bannister

[Steve Bannister]

Anybody? Please?

Steve

[Mr.Meteo]

Hi Steve,

I think your best way is probably to use the plain html template
coming with Cumulus. With its minimal layout, things will be easier
to integrate with your site.

As you already use a separate folder on your website ( http://calingirips.com.au/weather-station/)
you have to try to configure Cumulus to send files to this folder as a first move.

Problem is to insert all these data pages to your layout. I've seen that you're using
a Wordpress platform to manage your site... and I have not played with that
(my sites are all "hand made"), so I couldn't help you on that. You have to see
at first what is the way to "merge" things (include? iFrame or else)

Hope this could give you a start point.

Regards,
Jacques

[Steve Bannister]

Hi Jacques,

Thanks for the reply, and yes, it would be easy to create a sub-domain and link an iframe. My problem is, that I have uploaded everything to my public_html side of the website, but I still can't bet anything to show up on the page, and it is causing all sorts of headaches for our school

I look forward to the day that you, or someone, can create a wordpress plugin or widget, as 60% of all websites now use wordpress.

Until then, thank you for your help.

Steve

[w9sbu]

I am surprised that many people use wordpress. I've never tried it because I heard it limited what you could do with it.
In such situation, I would have the link to the WB2 index page open in a new browser. This way WB2 can interact with it's self and the school page is still standing by to return to. This would get it up and running soon, then at leisure you could start tweaking WB2 code to look more like the existing web site. As mentioned before, it will be much easier to modify the HTML templates to work with your site.
 The php templates will require mods to three different files for each page- page.php, page_text.php, and styles.css. This is a lot of code manipulation and unless you have a hard core code kicking webmaster who can spend some time on it, well- HTML would be the way.