All that swell stuff that was suggested starts with "make sure your modem is plugged in" type logic. I've been spending a week going through the same thing over and over -- You can't imagine how many times I've been pointed to "design your wordpress site" and it turns out to be "download a template". Well, I just found this, but it is late so I only got to a few sentences -- looks good -- an honest to goodness article about conversion instead of a treatise on the english language, bill gates, the way of the world and maybe touch on conversion... Look at this one: http://www.jestro.com/web-design/convert-xhtml-css-to-wordpress/
I hope it answers a few questions for me -- [Yeah, I know, header footer, sidebar and content.... That's swell - for a fun little page. How about a **real** site being merged / converted? Yeah, I get it -- header footer sidebar, content...]
HA!