There are three basic ways in which you could approach converting this site into ExpressionEngine.
1. You could use a third-party add-on such as Structure (http://buildwithstructure.com/) that is designed specifically to help maintain static pages in ExpressionEngine. This can be especially useful when dealing with multiple tiers of static content. However, since this is not part of the built-in ExpressionEngine functionality, this chapter does not use this method.
2. You could put the page layout code into templates, but put the main text of each page into a channel and then use the
{exp:channel:entries}
tag in your templates to display the page content.3. You could put both the page layout code and the main text of each page into templates and not use channels at all.
The last option, leaving the content of each page in a template, is actually a good approach in certain circumstances:
1. If there are only a handful of static pages, it might be less work and less...