Current site: Umbraco 6.1.4

Goal: Redesign site and move existing content to a new site design

Proposed:

Templates:

• WebPage.cshtml

Document Types

• SEO
• - Web Page
• Section

Content Example:

• About Us (Web Page)
• - Who we are (Section)
• - - Our leadership (Section)
• - - - Leader 1 (Section)
• - - Our engineers (Section)
• - - - Person 1 (Section)
• - - - Person 2 (Section)
• - What we do (Section)
• - - Our product (Section)
• - - How it works (Section)
• Contact Us (Web Page)
• - Phone (Section)
• - - Toll Free (Section)
• - - International (Section)
• - Email (Section)

With CSS we display and style the sections based on properties (class, ids and content).

I want to abandon the previous template structure and move to the new one and was curious what advice you would give. Should I just add the new document type (Web Page) structure allowed at root and start making

new page clones of the ones we need? Should I build a new site and then just delete the old one? The URL's that currently exist would need to be maintained.

Some context:

The previous site has strongly type document types for each page. Previously the about us page would have had properties for who we are and document types for leadership and engineers. Having the multitude of

document types is making it difficult for us to iterate with A/B Testing and deprecating properties from document types and moving them to others.

Just curious if anyone can offer advice on best practices for redesigning a current site inline with the new design and switching over.