Described herein is a method, for managing creation and publication of a document in a documentation management system (DMS), that includes causing display of a first graphical user interface (GUI) on a first client device. The method includes authenticating a first user of the first client device, and causing display of an author view of a hierarchical document structure in a navigational pane of the first GUI. The method includes saving content received in an editor pane of the first GUI as a page in the DMS and associating the first user as an author of the page. The method includes generating a document entry displayed with a draft status indicator corresponding to the draft status of the page. The method includes causing display of a reader-view of the hierarchical document structure on a second GUI with the content of the page displayed in accordance with the draft status.