Hello, and thanks for trying to help!

I have a website that I’ve been using for a while. I designed it myself in HTML with CSS in Dreamweaver. I’ve decided that it would be a great idea to have a blog on it too, so my viewers can get more information. So, I looked into Blog Software. The only problem is that they give me no control over the way my entire site looks!

I tried WordPress, but word press made my whole site look dumb, and blank, and I didn’t want to sit and spend hours learning how to make a "WordPress Theme" that looked similar my website. What I’d like to do is use my current website, but have the blog in my content area (I have links and a header above it, and a footer below). A blog would be great so that the Devs and I could each log in, post a blog that would display who posted it and when, and would allow comments. I don’t really want/need much more than that.

Thanks a lot. I’ve been looking for a long time, and I know that the only options aren’t the one’s that seize complete design control from the user! Someone must have made a web designer/graphic artist friendly one by now!

Use WordPress, keep reading, first save your index file as index.php. Then add
< ?php
require(‘./path-to-your-blog/wp-blog-header.php’);
?>
to the top of your index.php. Then add the following code to where your want your post.

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_date(”,’<h2>’,'</h2>’); ?>
<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h3 class="storytitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<div class="meta"><?php _e("Filed under:"); ?> <?php the_category(‘,’) ?> — <?php the_tags(__(‘Tags: ‘), ‘, ‘, ‘ — ‘); ?> <?php the_author() ?> @ <?php the_time() ?> <?php edit_post_link(__(‘Edit This’)); ?></div>
<div class="storycontent">
<?php the_content(__(‘(more…)’)); ?>
</div>
<div class="feedback">
<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
<?php comments_popup_link(__(‘Comments (0)’), __(‘Comments (1)’), __(‘Comments (%)’)); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e(‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

Have fun.

I am looking for blog commenting software for a news-style blog. It MUST have Twitter/Facebook integration.
This is a self-hosted WordPress blog.

Disqus is great. It integrates with FB and Twitter. Many blogs use it and is well known.

http://disqus.com/features/

IntenseDebate is very good too.

http://intensedebate.com/features

Both have great reputations.