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whwn i say by hand, I use visual studio, i just would not ues anything that spits out html, because they do not create clean code free from violations . although word press is popular it is not good for SEO, but if you can not write your own html, then wordpress or the like it has to be. You certaibnly are not going to be able to mark up microdata with the such

If you are already looking at a site rework under aspnet the have a look at incorperating this with MVC which offers a much more structured approach and allows handling of redirects 301 and produces much faster loading pages without all the cookie state stuffing of straight aspnet.  It also handles security much better with attributes to control protocol and access rights.