This chapter is aimed more at the departmental system level than at the large commercial site. Large commercial sites had better have some scheme for moving pages from authoring platform to test to production, with appropriate testing and signoffs along the way. They may have somebody whose entire job is to transfer files from the sandbox system to the production system. You, as the Webmaster, don't have to worry much about making life easier for those people. Some of the following discussion may still be helpful.

But if you're in a department, and the authority to write Web pages is delegated to the person in charge of the area the Web page describes, then you're going to end up with a lot of people building Web sites who really don't know what they're doing and don't really have either the time or the interest in learning. If they're Windows or Mac people, they may have a lot of trouble understanding the VMS file system, and some of them will never be able to sort out FTP.

So you need to make it easy for them to get their pages onto the server and as likely as possible that the pages will work properly once they get there. You're probably not that concerned with a formal check-in procedure.