I've tried it all…stuck on embedding my blog into my website

I’ve been up and down the forums, and googleland, and I have yet to find a workable solution. I have tried all sorts of suggestions found here and elsewhere…I am not sure what I am missing.

Here is what I have…

My website is http://chrispoldervaart.com

I have a menuitem that calls blog.php. Within blog.php, I simply have an iframe that inserts my wordpress blog, which is found at http://chrispoldervaart.com/blog. If you access the [my blog] menu item, then you get my wordpress blog inside of my site’s index.php.

This at least works…but not without some nuances.

1. It’s an iframe…and I would prefer a better solution.
2. All of my rss links take people directly to the blog URL…so people don’t get my website when they click on a link..they get the blog with no website headers, etc.
3. Did I mention I want to avoid iframes?

I’ve so far been unsuccessful in finding a way to embed my wordpress blog into my current site.

For understanding my php site is at:

/httpdocs/index.php

My wordpress installation is at:

/siteapps/141793/htdocs/wp-content/

To simplify troubleshooting, I have created test.php at the root of httpdocs… http://chrispoldervaart.com/test.php

It contains the following code:

<!-- this is a test to make sure I have the right path. -->

<img src='/siteapps/141793/htdocs/wp-content/themes/travel-blogger/images/wordpress.png'</img> 

<!-- now to try and load wordpress. -->
<?php
// Include WordPress
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('/siteapps/141793/htdocs/wp-content/wp-load.php');
query_posts('showposts=1');
?>

<?php while (have_posts()): the_post(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
"
?>

The png image loads that I put into the path test code…but after that…nothing works. Just a blank white page.

What am I missing here? Can someone help me sort this out?

Thanks!

(please feel free to ask questions, and I can answer them. I am willing to help you help me. : )