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A good way to design your company intranet would be to make it template-based, which means that the content will be displayed on the same types of pages throughout the site. Content should be developed using web-style writing, which means to write in active voice, use short words and sentences, keep your paragraphs reasonably short, or even better, utilize bulleted list items instead of paragraphs where appropriate.
If the content on the intranet site is to be maintained across departments by a number of users, it may be a good idea to use a content management system, which will allow non-programmers to contribute to web site content without any trouble.
I recently built a web-based content management system (CMS) for use in external web publishing. Designed in PHP/MySQL, the CMS consisted of a series of forms which users would use to add or update content on the web site. All web site content was stored in MySQL tables. Whenever a user would add or update information, the record would be set to a "pending" status so that the user could preview the finished product on a web page before publishing it to the server. This content management system was custom built, in less than two weeks.
By enabling various groups to contribute to the site, this helps to keep the content fresh and up to date. Utilizing a content management system also helps to ensure that the site design is applied consistently throughout the web site.
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