Content Matrix advice?

[Acternaweb]

We are going through the a refresh of our corporate web site and trying figure out the best way to manage the content and making it easy for the developers to follow the changes they need to make for the new design

This is what we are interested in managing:
* Description
* Delivery Format
* Launch Format
* # of pages/# of words
* Responsible Party

I started using a Excel, but it gets combersome and confusing. Was interested in seeing what other people do/use.

Thanks,

Paul

[oilman]

I giant whiteboard with a bunch of recipe card size post-it note pads and dry erase markers. You can move the post-its around and re-draw flow arrows etc on a whim and different colored post-its have different levels of priority and different colored flow lines can help define relationships between different parts of the project. I know it's low-tech but it's hard to beat :)

The really nice thing is you get the whole picture in a glance.

[mivox]

I start by drawing a little diagram... then I usually end up with a stack of papers arranged in some strange order related to which pages link to what.

For you, it sounds like you might almost want to build an html "site" org chart... put copies of it on CD-R or Zip and distribute them to the development team. DOes that make any sense? I have a fuzzy, almost visual idea of how it would work, but it's hard to put into words...

[Acternaweb]

Do you have a template/sample of the html site map?