DW and Zen don't link... or at least don't try to link them unless you have a PHD in zencart and a Doctorate in DW, and 45,000 years' experience.

For a ZC novice, the only way you can get your site to look like your shiny new DW layout, is to understand HOW the zencart template structure is configured.

Fundamentally, it consists of:

a HEADER section
a LEFT COLUMN
a CENTRE COLUMN
a RIGHT COLUMN
a FOOTER section

Each of these "areas" is structured to contain quite specific contents, or sets of data.

It should be quite obvious what these are:

HEADER will contain your main logo image, and probably some links to various popular functions / internal "pages"

LEFT and RIGHT column display "boxes" of data that are generally "static" links, or other pertinent data about yiour site, such as a SSL logo, or current special offers, or a summary of the shopping cart.

The CENTER COLUMN is where the bulk of the ACTION takes place... content here is compiled to allow the user to get on with the job of actually doing their shopping, so PRODUCT DATA, ADVICE PAGES, the SHOPPING CART, The CHECKOUT PROCESS... all take place in the centre column.

The FOOTER is similar to the HEADER, in that it contains a few "notices" and possibly links to a few other "pages".

Zencart is quite flexible, and a real "guru" can manipulate these "frames" (columns) to contain data that they would otherwise not contain.

To make you life easier, you should design (probably re-design at this stage) your DW template to enable the graphic elements to be "sliced" to fit the various "frames", and that it also tries to follow the function intent of each area (as I outlined above).

Your focus is surely to get a working, viable and profitable shop up asap... Dont spend 20 years trying to get "the right shade of orange" in the footer...

There many templates available that you could look at. Kuroi (forum user) has set up a template switcher so you can see some of the free ones.

STEER CLEAR of most commercial templates... They spell trouble for a novice.