Many smaller businesses have websites that sit mostly dormant and produce very little in the way of results. If your website is built using old school html, then maybe it’s best you just ditch it, not the content, just the design and start over.
If your site is based on CSS or Cascading Style Sheets, then maybe upgrading to a more easily updated, and more SEO friendly site is the way to go. My recommendation would be WordPress. You may not know this, but it’s pretty simple to port any CSS template to WordPress, unless of course you don’t like the look of your website anyway. Then starting fresh would be the better option.
Obviously, WordPress files are more complicated than a straight forward web template, so basically you take up the template files and cut them up into the appropriate WordPress files. Here are the files found in a typical WordPress installation:
- Comments (comments.php)
- Comments Popup Tempalte (comments-popup.php)
- Main Index Template (index.php) [Required]
- Header (header.php)
- Single Post (single.php)
- Search Results (search.php)
- Category Template (category.php)
- Footer (footer.php)
- Sidebar (sidebar.php)
- Theme Functions (functions.php)
- Tags Template (tags.php)
- Archives Template (archive.php)
- Stylesheet (style.css) [Required]
That means that the files that do not already exist have to be created. While it’s pretty simple to port a site over to WordPress, it is NOT easy, if you need help and would prefer us to do ti for you, please use our contact page.
This article is meant to give you a little background in porting a template or CSS file to WordPress, for detailed information, take a look at the following sites.