Student newspaper: how to make it easy for student editors/writers

Question

Hi,
We've been working with InDesign for a few years now and one problem we've always had is each person works on their individual page and at the end of the process the production editor puts all these pages together into one document. Archaic, I know.
I'm looking for advice on how to improve this process. My research says moving to integrate InCopy is a must but what I'd like to learn more about is InDesign Server. If I understand it correctly, it would allow writers and editors to log in via the Web in a browser to put their content onto the page. I want to be able to release the writers and editors from having to come into the office to work on their assignments and like the idea that they could "write to fit".
Thoughts?

Answer 1

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But if every person is creating a whole page, why do you not use indb fies to put it together?
Ah, I second this. Create a template file for the one page, with the correct size and margins and as much styles as needed (paragraph, character, table, object), as well as all allowed color swatches (if none are needed, remove the existing ones). "Open" the template to get a copy as a normal file, and hand this over with instructions for Paragraph Style usage (and any other styles), and when the writer is done, glue it into a Book file to have the page numbering updated.