Over the past year or so iv taken up web design as a hobby. As of now im able to create a pretty simple site using dreamweaver and photoshop. So far in my latest project iv taken a decent amount of time to create a template that is more pleasing to the eye with some more experience with photoshop and with flash (which iv just started learning.) Another thing im shooting for is to make the site more user friendly and to make my life alittle easier with updating content. Iv looked into PHPNuke and several other systems, I liked what phpnuke had to offer but I didnt not like the generic layout that you have to follow. Being that iv already made a layout id like to know if there are systems out there or other alternatives that it would be easy to integrate my template into or visa versa.

I find integrating templates you make with CMS time consuming and complicated

Hi Deals - sounds jist like my questions 'n queries ..
and Hi&dry - jacob - i'll call you cobweb ... thats helpful¿ .. add a hint.. if it's complicated what's the alternative,???? n give us a boost into php cms xml 'n all that... html & actionscript seems ezi 4 for blimmin mortals on facebook, so we need to get ahead, php up our lives.
I joined 5 minutes ago, my queries are creating forum boards.. php.. problem is running b4 walking.. so

wow thats hard to understand.

Use cms with a template they have already made, download one perhaps.
If not,you could always figure out how its done..Joomla has a ****in 80 page manuel that I did not care to read. Try this one Content Mangement Made Simple or CMSMS, they are very easy, I just lost interest when i couldnt get things to work for my purposes in a short amount of time. They have a video manuel. Hope this helps

I figured it might be a difficult task, Ill take a look at CMSMS. Thanks.