EASY WAY

Your old homepage may consist of one or several .html files, it is extremely easy to adapt it to the new page.
Say you have a "index.html" file, and the first part talks about yourself, copy the corresponding source code and paste them to a new file, save it as "about.html" under your template_files folder. Then copy the source code about your publications, name it as publications.html, etc.

You can edit a file in Word, do style changes like making some words be BOLD, underlined, smaller or red, or making some hyperlinks. Then in the Word menu, under File, choose "save as web page", save it as pagename.htm, where the pagename is the name of your page. Copy this file to template_files.

If you just want several line of text, you can also create a text file in any text editor, name it as pagename.txt.