by tknoppe » Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:36 am
Hi Sylvia - yes you can transfer your content over to a WP site, but you need to, of course, do that manually - as in copy/paste the contents from the current static html site, into new posts or pages you create in the WP site; THEN (*and this is critically important!) you need to create a permanent 301 redirect in your .htaccess file so you point the old .html pages to their new location within your WP blog.
If you don't, folks will get either the old pages showing (because html sites can run simultaneously along side php sites); or if you delete the html pages, they will get 404 page not found errors.
Here's a pretty good for you, with screenshots to help you.