Website redesign: site going from .php to .html

[cakelady]

A site I'm working on is being redesigned because the current platform does not allow for content to be changed easily. In the process, they are going from .php to .html. I am concerned about their losing link juice. Can a site work with the old content remaining .php and the new content being .html or should all pages stay .php?

[anthonytjm]

You can use both php and html pages. An example would be shopping cart html site. All the cart pages would have to use some sort of php, asp, cfm etc for dynamic purposes. Another example would be quote forms. Many of our sites are html while our quote forms are php.

I think you would be fine to use both php and html. If you choose to go all html for ease of updates and maintenance purposes you can always 301 redirect php pages to new html pages.