I have a senario and need to know what the best practice would be.

I'm setting up the CMS for our external web site. I've got 14 division sections. Each division has a staff member responsible for any part of the layout that is not part of the master template. What I want to do is allow them to do pretty much whatever they think they can fit into their page between the standard header and footer.

What I plan to do is make each of these 14 people a designer and restrict them to the pages for their division. I have a standard default template they can use, but I'm going to train them to change it to an ad-hoc template. Then they can add what ever web parts they need to make their page do what they want.

I'm then planning to use the workflow feature to gain some corporate oversite of their work. I would like every change they make to trigger the approval process before their page publishes. This way, if either I or the communications specialist see something that needs to be changed, we can let them know.

Is this the way the system was intended to work? Is there a better way to give our staff the freedom to create what they want on their pages but also give the corporate office the oversite to maintain consistent quality?

The only thing that seems to be missing is a way to set permissions properties on the web parts. I'd like to develop some web parts that are for corporate office use only, or I might want to phase in an idea in one division before I roll it out company wide.