About Teresa Rosche Ott

Teresa has been developing web sites since Mindspring gave her 2MB of "free" web space in the mid '90s.
Her background in communication and decade of design firm experience bring a big-picture perspective to web projects, an approach that is particularly valuable to her small business and entrepreneur clients.

new WordPress site? seven simple ways to treat it right

The relative ease with which a WordPress site can be created has considerably lowered the barriers to entry for anyone desiring a personal blog, e-commerce website or a website for their offline business. As with any attractive idea, the simpler it is to pursue, the greater the number who’ll hop on board and create greater [...]

A $2500 web site for free

You guessed it: DIY. But for those with smarts and more time than money, DIY is the way to go and Tyler Moore’s video does a good job of walking through the steps. I won’t lie – it’s not a walk in the park and that’s why developers charge what we do. But the complexity [...]

GoDaddy: a no go for me

In a recent post about web host GoDaddy, Judi Knight echoes my thoughts, as well as my experience.

I’d like to teach the world to…

…use WordPress? Yeah, I know – but I’m serious. There will always be people who don’t want to get their hands “dirty” (if that word even applies to typing on a keyboard) by messing around with servers and FTP and whatnot. I’m grateful for these people because they help me feed my family, pay the [...]

even other CMS companies use WordPress

WordPress

I’m currently developing a site design for a client with a huge membership, so they chose a content and member management system that doesn’t quite have the elegance of WordPress but is pretty much the only non-custom solution that can handle their needs. Peeked under the hood of the member management company’s blog and guess [...]