Blog via iframe or not?

[pbhatt]

We had our developers install Wordpress in the www.ourmainsite.com/blog directory. Our site is .NET based. Now we asked them to customize the blog's appearance to look like our main site.

Here is the proposal from our developers to avoid lots of PHP coding:

"In this approach we will create a custom page which will contain an iFrame in the body section. This iFrame will be solely responsible for showing all the blog pages.

The template for Blog Pages will be designed in php (except the Header and Footer section). In Short, We will run the wordpress site (Blog) in our [main] Site"

My Questions

1. Do the URLs have to stay the same for every page on the blog when using an iframe? (we want unique URLs for every page/post)

2. What are the SEO implications of this method? Will internal linking in the blog help pass all of the link juice throughout the main site and the blog?

3. How difficult is it to match the header, footer, and CSS (font/style/colors) of our main site in the Wordpress installation given that the site is .Net and Wordpress is PHP? Does spending some more time/money now to build everything in PHP without an iframe make sense in the long run?

Thanks!

[AlanMosley]

I would not do this, either the blog won’t get indexed, or if somehow it does, when people click on the link, they will go to the blog page, not the master page containing the blog page.
My guess is that the developers are expecting you to work around their limitations.
How far have you gone down the WordPress road?
I would make a simple UI with a html editor, save blog post to a database, then pull them as pages in your .net app.