Redesigning an ASP.NET website
<p>My company's website is a kind of complex Visual Studio project that utilizes lots of custom libraries it has created. The site is an ASP.NET site with a Master page and such. I have been tasked with redesigning it; we have found and purchased an HTML template that we want to use, so the task seemed to be applying the CSS from this purchased template to the website... which I found out today is very difficult and just wouldn't work. Can't just switch the CSS sheet in the master page and be able to work it out from there.</p>

<p>Making the simple text pages is simple, just copy and paste into the new markup. But we have a lot of code behind, javascript, etc in our pages and I'm not really sure where to start, if not just start from scratch. I read this topic <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8977285/best-practice-css-to-refacing-redesigning-a-large-website">Best Practice CSS to refacing/redesigning a large website</a>, which kind of suggests to start from scratch... But it seems like I will need to use the code in the current project in some way, which brings the master page back and the whole problem... Should I really rewrite every line of code?</p>

<p>Can you give some tips or reference some links for me to get started?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>
