How best to let Google know I have changed website

Soldato
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I have a website at http://smp.aeternum.co.uk that is currently in .xhtml

My site appears quite high in Google when using the right search [I am rather surprised at that too, site has only been up a month].

However, as my site is constantly being updated/corrected and added to, I am in the process of moving it over to .php. This will allow me to simplify my code and also make it easier to add/remove stuff [using an Admin panel of some description].

However, because the pages will undoubtedly change and have new names, how well will Google handle this, and should I do anything?

Basically I don't want people clicking on a link in Google to find the page no longer exists.

This is all quite new to me, so any help would be wonderful.
 
Ahh, didn't consider a redirect.

I used .xhtml because my pages are written in strict XHTML 1.1. The validator gives a warning if I don't use .xhtml. I don't want warnings! :p

Is Google able to tell the difference between different pages through the *.php?=contact and so on?

All my pages have the same template, so all I need is one PHP page and I can include the content from flat files [or DB].
 
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