Becky Kohl of Greenstarfish LLC works with graphic designers, writers, information architects, marketers and search specialists to create useful web sites. Becky creates wordpress and joomla themes, but also does custom jQuery scripting, css/javascript/html troubleshooting, security audits and usability testing.

Becky has been creating and managing web sites and web applications for 13 years, just over the 10 years it takes to develop expertise (Bloom 1985, Bryan & Harter 1899, Hayes 1989, Simmon & Chase 1973, h/t Peter Norvig, Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years). She is also a fourth-generation Fairfield County business owner (on both sides of her family!).

Becky graduated from Wellesley College, a women’s college in Massachusetts. Here’s an illustrative story about Wellesley: In 1886 Winifred Edgerton (graduate of Wellesley, 1883) received a PhD from Columbia University in practical astronomy and mathematics. She was the first woman to be awarded a degree from that institution. It was reported that one group of students tried to dissuade her participation in a Celestial Mechanics class by requesting that the professor use the most difficult text available. The book chosen was the one that Ms. Edgerton had used as an undergraduate at Wellesley.