I have a website that I was asked to “redesign”.
The site itself was built and still maintained by FrontPage, so there are hundreds (hopefully not more) of HTML pages.
My main limitation is that I can’t change any of the URLs because they have been there for over 10 years and have a lot of SEO value.
I want to rebuild the site in a smart way (CSS classes, dynamic pages, etc.) but also give the owner the ability to change content as he needs.
I was thinking of using WordPress, however I don’t have experience with it and I’m not sure what it’s limitations are.
My other issue, is that I need server side languages in order to enable this kind of site, but I don’t know how to do that without changing the URLs.
And after I deal with all that, is there any way around manually handling every single page?
Any suggestions, or pushing in a certain direction are all welcome.
Feel free to provide new, meaningful, URLs but make 100% sure that you configure correct 301 redirects from all old URLs to the new ones.