moving web site without hurting rankings

asp permanent redirect

[jpl80]

I have a web site that was done with Microsoft's My Web Pages Starter Kit.

There is no need for this site to be dynamic and I want to make it static so that I can fix things like the IE6 png transparency bug, replace table-based layout with xhtml/css, etc.

How should I approach this so that it has no effect on Search Engine rankings. Would I have to just put a permanent redirect at the top of every .aspx file?

[Ocean10000]

Why not just replace the existing dyanmic code with static html in the aspx and keep the file names the way they are.

[jpl80]

I thought of that... but I wasn't sure if that was an option since these pages are generated dynamically. They are just virtual filenames... They don't actually exist.

But it makes sense... A request is a request... If the files are in place then that is what will be served.

I just really CANNOT afford any bumps in the Google ranks... so I wanted to ask to make sure. Thanks.