Tennessee Disability Coalition Expands Audience Reach

The Tennessee Disability Coalition approached Plan Left with a Drupal 7 website that offered minimal capabilities or content management customizations. Their hosting service was expensive but unstable, with a hosting company that generally supported hobby or small business websites but not enterprise-level websites of the magnitude and importance of The Tennessee Disability Coalition.

TDC’s sessions, number of visitors, and pageview KPIs are all up, boasting success in the service of their audience. By harnessing the collaborative content management capabilities of Drupal, we’ve helped the coalition empower their key coalition stakeholders and expand their audience reach. Their website has been secure and reliably hosted for over seven years, with no interruptions in visibility or uptime.

Drupal development provides endless opportunities for customization, allowing plan Left to build tools at the organizational level. This gives The TDC the ability to deploy specialized announcements for campaigns and events. A Salesforce integration made building a CRM of government, legislative, business, resource, and consumer audiences possible. The project couldn’t be complete without specific attention to the accessibility of the site, so that all who visited could engage and understand. Our Website Accessibility Audit is just the first step to providing an inclusive website experience.

Without the ability to designate department roles for content management, the Drupal 7 website for The Tennessee Disability Coalition had become stagnant. Hosting services were not robust enough to provide the stability and maintenance the non-profit needed. Without a solution to provide more agility, security, and the ability to scale, the TDC struggled to grow.

Plan Left first upgraded the site to Drupal 8, then to Drupal 9, and now to Drupal 10. The website now features per-department roles so specific people can edit within their own section of the website, allowing more agility and room for growth without waiting for a web development team to build for content needs as they arise. We also provide enterprise-level hosting with security, maintenance, and support.