You want to keep your website content up-to-date, but sometimes just thinking about using the editor is enough to send you to bed with a hot cup of tea.
An Editing Ride-Along is about identifying the sticking points that make your WordPress or Drupal content editing time-consuming, confusing, and hard to use. Fixing these workflow issues leads to easier onboarding for website content editors and more frequent content updates to engage your website visitors.
We’ll ride along with you as you update your content in your Drupal or WordPress editor and give clear, specific steps to improve your editorial workflow, so your editing form doesn’t feel as hard to use.
Editing Ride-Alongs Help You…
- Reduce complexity
- Streamline onboarding
- Reduce workflow friction
- Update or remove outdated plugins
- Improve performance
- Keep content up-to-date
What’s an Editing Ride-Along?
Clayton Dewey, Clare Parkinson, or Heather Brokmeier will accompany you on a walkthrough of your typical editing process. Along the way, they will offer concrete and actionable steps to reduce complexity and frustration, streamline workflow, and get organized. WordPress and Drupal are powerful tools, and using the editor doesn’t have to feel so difficult.
Editing Ride-Along - $200
Spend an hour with one of our expert strategists, Clayton, Clare, or Heather, walking through your editor and addressing all the problems that arise.
- Identify top priority editor issues quickly
- Prioritize fixes to make your editor easier to use
Who Are We?
Founded in 2012, DevCollab is a consultative web development team devoted to working with progressive, social justice, health equity, educational, and arts organizations. DevCollab is woman- and LGBTQ-owned and led.
Clayton Dewey
Technical Product Owner
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Clayton has been working in nonprofit technology and web development since 2011. He applies his background in linguistics and sociology to ensure websites meet users’ needs. Aside from content strategy and user experience design, Clayton also enjoys being a goofy dad and always appreciates a good paraprosdokian.
Clare Parkinson
WordPress Development Lead
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Clare has been working with WordPress since 2010. Her specialty is the WordPress back-end: getting all the parts to play nicely together so the user experience is as simple as possible. She is a co-organizer for the WordPress Naperville Meetup in Chicago’s western suburbs.
Heather Brokmeier
Front-End Development Lead
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Heather’s love of web development began almost two decades ago when, as a kid, she built websites for fun and dreamed of becoming a web developer. She received a B.A. in Web & Digital Media from University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and has been building sites professionally since 2015. Heather is happiest writing front-end code, thinking about performance and accessibility, and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
We really appreciate DevCollab's approach. They truly stand by their commitment to building sites that are long-lasting, people-friendly, and easy to manage.
The DevCollab team is incredibly thoughtful, creative, hard-working, and client-centered. They helped bring our vision to life, while empowering us to take charge of our content and features.
DevCollab is a joy to work with. Their attention to detail, rigorous communication, dedication to accessibility practices, and ability to help my team build and maintain complex websites is unmatched.
