Title: HTML to CSS
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# HTML to CSS

 *  [nealdavid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nealdavid/)
 * (@nealdavid)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-to-css/)
 * Hi I’m new to WordPress and css though have been doing html for some time. I 
   have a page that was done in Dreamweaver as html. I would like to keep this same
   site page (not currently active) as my home page in a blog. Is there a simple
   way to do this or will I have to try and rebuild the complete page in css which
   I know very little about but have been trying to read up on it.

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 *  [miocene22](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miocene22/)
 * (@miocene22)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-to-css/#post-1194160)
 * html and css do not do the same thing. You cannot rebuild an html page in css.
 * html is a markup language used to specify the content of a page.
 * css is a stylesheet language used to style and position that content.
 * Your page made in dreamweaver almost certainly uses html and css but as you made
   it in a wysiwyg editor the program did all the coding for you – most likely adding
   a load of useless bulk code along the way.
 * If you wish to have a page you made into a wordpress blog it will pretty much
   need rebuilding from scratch in the form of a wordpress theme. The minimum files
   required for a wordpress theme is an **index.php** file and a **style.css** file.
 * .php files can contain html but also contains php code that is executed and used
   to retrieve your blog contents and output it as html.
 * I suggest you first learn the basics of html and css before attempting to make
   a theme file. [here](http://www.w3schools.com/) is a good place to start.
 * Then consult the [codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Creating_Themes)
   for info on how to create your own wordpress theme
 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-to-css/#post-1194183)
 * Dreamweaver supports utilising CSS, why didn’t you tackle this problem when you
   were writing the code…
 * Updated versions of Dreamweaver do alot of CSS as standard now, so i’m guessing
   you’re on a slightly older version.
 * Move the styling into CSS in dreamweaver, once it’s all looking how you want (
   using CSS), move the code across, along with the CSS..
 * **If it’s not a huge page,** i can proberly convert the code to a CSS friendly
   version for you, just post it inside a pastebin and post the link.
 * [http://wordpress.pastebin.com/](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)

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