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I am building a website in html & css after finishing the design i was about to start mass making the pages and adding the content but it is quite a large site so i wanted to add a CMS so i can easily edit pages and add more to sections such as news etc

so i downloaded one the themes to see how the coding works so i could perhaps copy and paste it over and install it etc

but the theme is entirly xml inbedded

so is it possible to integrate overlap or somehow merge this website i have with cmsms

The themes are all packed as XML because they get imported using theme manager, you best bet is to install CMS Made Simple then look at the default content pages, like in the link below, to see how it works...

Mostly it's just a matter of copying your template/html to a new template replacing things like the hard coded menu ul li with {menu}, use {content} where you want to add content to the page, then copy your css into new style sheets then attach those to your new template, of course there are a few more tweaks you will need to do but it will get you going...

has anyone done it before, perhaps a guide or instructions on how to do it is available ?

or should i just jump in give it a go and should i succeed write one myself

There's documentation in the wiki: http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... d/Designer