Need guidance about how to structure a non WP site

Sounds like you need to pop over to w3schools to learn html. It won't be just HTML you will need to learn CSS too.

It takes time but well worth it

Just curious, what is the need to move to a non WP site when you are already familiar with Wordpress. Looking at your question and your reply above, I guess you don't have any/very less experience in HTML/CSS. It might take days or even months and a lot of experience to master over it.

And it doesn't really matter what you are using. WP, Joomla html whatever...Your website's conversion rate would depend a LOT on your content, how you are presenting them and how you are creating an interest for the end user. Maybe you need to work on these areas....

You won't be able to use straight HTML/CSS to do everything you are going to want to do. Protect content from non-members, have easily editable content and sidebars, direct the flow of people through your sales funnel. You will need to turn to other coding languages anyways to do certain things, if your already good with WP then just stick with it.

I could make sales pages, OTO's and all that stuff without WP but I wouldn't because I can have a fully functional, SEO friendly, easy to update sales page in hours as compared to days with hand coding.

P.S. If you are really serious about hand coding your website get Dreamweaver or similar program it will help cut your coding time in half because it gives you coding hints.

The way you organize a website depends pretty much on the type of website you're building and the way you like to do it, but here we'll provide you some models that you can use to organize your website making each update an easier job. Our recommendation is that you create a main directory in your computer that will contain all the files and sub directories of the site, that you can later upload "as is" to the server.

The first thing you have to think of, is that putting all the files in the root directory may be fine for a site with 5 pages and 3 images. But if you have to handle 20 pages and 200 images, that organization model can turn into a serious problem. So what you can do, is to start grouping the files in some way and placing them in different directories to make your site a little easier to manage and update.

For example, let's say you have a site where you show up your artwork: a collection of 5 images designed by yourself. After think it for a while, you decide that you'll build one page to show the images, plus the home page and the contact page. This makes a total of 3 pages and 5 images. As it's not much, you can actually create this directory structure that will hold your files well organized:

It seems to me that you are trying to reinvent the wheel.

Wordpress or any other CMS handles the structure of a site, allowing you to focus on the content.

You could manually code and cobble together a collection or php snippets, for page headers, sidebars, nav menus, footers, and page content.

Edge360, Robin and everyone, thank you all. This group is always amazing. I have been able now to get a grip on some of my confusion, and map out a way to move ahead with some changes but not dumping WP, just learning to use it in a new way. Thank you all so much..I will ponder all this advice and start building my new site.