redirects for redesigned site at same URL

My company is redesigning our web site. we are moving it to a new server, but keeping the same URL. The new site has some similiar content, but the architecture has changed quite a bit and now most of the pages are coldfusion (.cfm) instead of .htm. Right now, we've created duplicates of all of the old files on the new server, but with none of the content, and from them we are redirecting people to the appropriate new files which have the content. This is what the code looks like for one of the pages:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Wimberley, Inc.</title>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=new-page.cfm">
</head>

<body>
<p>Please wait while we redirect you to the appropriate page....</p>

</body>
</html>

Can anyone let me know if this is an o.k. solution. Will we be penalized by google in any way for haveing these redirects or for haveing these basically blank pages with no relavent content. Any help would be appreciated. thanks.

redirects for redesigned site at same URL

Need help choosing the correct method to redirect to new page versions

Clay Wimberley

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