Question : Integrating a WordPress blog into a Website

I have a client who would like to integrate a WordPress blog into her website so the design matches her look and feel perfectly and appears seamless.

She gave me this as an example: blog.publishedandprofitable.com, whose overall design matches publishedandprofitable.com.

Looking at the code, not sure how it was integrated.

How best/easiest to integrate a WordPress blog into a current website design?

What looks to be the process the Web designer at the site above took to perform this integration?

Answer : Integrating a WordPress blog into a Website

Looks like their Wordpress theme is custom built to resemble the rest of the site. This could be done by studying the structure of the main site (which is built in Coldfusion, so I would presume that each page is database driven content injected into a common template) and developing the Wordpress theme to match. Last is to use the same stylesheet or extend the main site's stylesheet, adding elements that are specific to the blog section.

Here's the stylesheet for the main site:
http://www.publishedandprofitable.com/public/mgstyle.css

Here's the stylesheet for the blog / Wordpress areas:
http://blog.publishedandprofitable.com/wp-content/themes/PandP/style.css

I would suggest starting by seeing if you can look at her Coldfusion files. If you're not versed in Coldfusion, that's okay -- you're mostly just interested in the HTML so you can see what elements are common to every page. Then you build a skeleton from that in which you can add Wordpress code.

Just concentrate on getting all the right elements on the page first. Once you've done that, copy her CSS over to the new Wordpress theme and decide what needs to be added and adjusted.

If you haven't done a Wordpress theme before, here's some help for that:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development