Content handling for large sites?

[fliptight]

I work at a place in which copywriters pass content to the web developer via Microsoft Word documents. This is all fine and dandy for smaller sites but when a large site is being developed (for example say a 100+ page site) and site-wide revisions to the document are being made during development, managing and synchronizing the content becomes a nightmare.

I was curious how other places handled content when passing back and forth between copywriters and web developers?

[NogDog]

Something like that might be a candidate for a CMS or Wiki type web application, using one that allows multiple authors/administrators. You might want to poke around www.opensourcecms.com for some possibilities.

[fliptight]

thanks for that link. anyone else that has worked on large sites have an opinion?

[kiwibrit]

Word's not nice to handle copy for the web. I save as a .txt file - then cut and paste. Even so, it's a pain. However, fortunately, I don't get that many Word files to handle - so I am probably not the best person to advise.

I am looking into CMS to allow a contributor not to send me Word files, but enter content directory herself. Something like Joomla seems a little OTT for an existing site where just the odd page has to be manage - and where flat files rather than a MySQL database would be quite sufficient for content, but I don't want to code the thing myself - I'd be grateful for any suggestions.