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[ WordPress Plugin: Simple Ajax Chat Pro ]
Simple Ajax Chat Pro • Details

Simple Ajax Chat Pro

SAC Pro is the premium version of my free Simple Ajax Chat WP plugin. Unlimited chats loaded with awesome features.

  • Scope: Premium WordPress plugin
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: extensible, class-based/OOP
[ Wizard’s Collection: SQL Recipes for WordPress ]
Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress • Details

Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WP

Book and landing page for my latest book, Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress. Features over 300 SQL recipes.

  • Scope: book and landing page
  • Tools: Apache, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Book Features: syntax highlighted code
[ Wutsearch: Search Engine Launchpad ]
Wutsearch.com • Details

Wutsearch.com

Wutsearch.com is a single-page site that displays your choice of search engines. So it is easy to choose your favorites and search whatever is most useful.

  • Scope: free online website/service
  • Tools: Apache, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: options panel, responsive design
[ WordPress Plugin: GA Google Analytics Pro ]
GA Google Analytics Pro • Details

GA Google Analytics Pro

GA Pro is the premium version of my free GA Google Analytics WP plugin. One-step setup, lightweight, with lots of great features like frontend visitor Opt-Out.

  • Scope: Premium WordPress plugin
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: extensible, class-based/OOP
[ WordPress Plugin: Contact Form X ]
Contact Form X • Details

Contact Form X

Free WP plugin delivers a solid, Ajax-powered contact form that’s easy to use. Fully configurable. Display anywhere on your site. Your visitors will love it.

  • Scope: Free WordPress plugin
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: extensible, class-based/OOP
[ WordPress Plugin: Banhammer ]
Banhammer • Details

Banhammer

Free WP plugin makes it easy and fun to monitor traffic and ban unwanted visitors. Luxurious Ajax-powered UI complete with awesome sound effects!

  • Scope: Free WordPress plugin
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: extensible, class-based/OOP
[ WordPress Plugin: Prismatic ]
Prismatic • Details

Prismatic

Free WP plugin for syntax highlighting with a strong focus on performance. Display beautiful code snippets with Prism.js, Highlight.js, or plain code escaping.

  • Scope: Free WordPress plugin
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: extensible, class-based/OOP
[ WordPress Plugin: Theme Switcha ]
Theme Switcha • Details

Theme Switcha

Free WP plugin for developing and previewing themes behind the scenes. Features include access control, passkey links, and a sweet UI for the settings page.

  • Scope: Free WordPress plugin
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: extensible, class-based/OOP
[ WordPress Plugin: Blackhole Bad Bots ]
Blackhole Bad Bots • Details

Blackhole Bad Bots

Free WP plugin to help users protect their sites against bad bots. Features include bot tracking and management, user-agent whitelisting, and whois lookup.

  • Scope: Free WordPress plugin
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: extensible, class-based/OOP
[ WordPress Plugin: Dashboard Widgets Suite ]
Dashboard Widgets Suite • Details

Dashboard Widgets Suite

Free Plugin developed for the WordPress community. Features 9 must-have widgets rolled up into a single, easy-to-use plugin. Hosted at the WP Plugin Directory.

  • Scope: Free WordPress plugin
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: extensible, class-based/OOP
[ BBQ Pro WordPress Plugin ]
BBQ Pro • Details

BBQ Pro

Premium version of my Block bad Queries plugin for WordPress. Provides advanced protection against malicious URI requests. Fast, flexible, and fully customizable.

  • Scope: WordPress plugin and homepage
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, jQuery
  • Features: class-based/OOP + sweet graphics
[ shapeSpace WordPress Theme Template ]
shapeSpace • Details

BBQ Pro

shapeSpace is my deluxe yet minimal WordPress starter theme template. It’s 100% free and open source, focused on security, performance, and flexibility.

  • Scope: WordPress theme template
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • Features: modular and built with the WP API
[ SES Pro WordPress Plugin ]
SES Pro • Details

SES Pro

Provides a complete email-signup solution for WordPress-powered sites. Unlimited, shortcode-based, Ajax-powered signup forms with no limits and no monthly fees.

  • Scope: WordPress plugin and homepage
  • Tools: WordPress, PHP, HTML, jQuery
  • Features: class-based/OOP + Ajax
[ WordPress Themes In Depth ]
WordPress Themes In Depth • Details

WordPress Themes In Depth

Landing page for my fourth book, WordPress Themes In Depth. Clean, responsive design that is fully integrated with the Perishable Press Bookstore.

  • Scope: Landing page for latest book
  • Tools: WP, HTML, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: content sliders & lightbox
[ Plugin Planet ]
Plugin Planet • Details

Plugin-Planet.com

Marketplace for premium WordPress plugins, themes, and more. Site features include fully-integrated e-commerce, licensing, and forum functionality.

  • Scope: E-commerce/membership WP site
  • Tools: WP, HTML, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: automated everything :)
[ The Tao of WordPress ]
The Tao of WordPress • Details

WP-Tao.com

Official site for my third book, The Tao of WordPress. Site features include Ajax/modal shopping cart & login, responsive design, and clean code.

  • Scope: E-commerce/membership WP site
  • Tools: WP, HTML, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: Responsive slideshows
[ xyCSS.com ]
xyCSS • Details

xyCSS.com

Responsive web design on liquid CSS matrix. Site features docs, demos, blog, and downloads for xy.css and other tools for responsive, grid-based design.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, (xy)CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: Responsive grid-based design
[ WP-Mix.com ]
WP-Mix • Details

WP-Mix.com

WP-Mix is a flow of code, snippets, and tutorials to help with WP-based web design. The site is designed with xy.css, so it’s responsive and sticks to the grid.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, (xy)CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: Responsive grid-based design
[ .htaccess made easy ]
.htaccess made easy • Details

.htaccess made easy

Book and website about .htaccess. Membership site featuring help forums, PDF-stamping, URL-shortening, trackable downloads, and much more.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: Integrated affiliate program
[ Digging into WordPress ]
Digging into WordPress • Details

Digging into WordPress

DigWP.com is the companion site for an awesome WordPress book & blog that I co-author with design guru Chris Coyier.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: secure download system
[ Perishable Press ]
Perishable Press • Details

Perishable Press

Perishable Press is my personal design/tech blog where I write about WordPress, web-design, code & tutorials.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: 15+ alternate WP themes
[ eChunks.com ]
eChunks.com • Details

eChunks.com

eChunks is a plush gallery/chill site for sharing inspiring found photos, graphics, and videos. Collection currently over 800 images/media. Curated by yours truly.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: Chat forum, user-submitted posts
[ Product Reality ]
Product Reality • Details

Product Reality

Product Reality is a social-media FAIL site for your photos of downsized, overpriced, broken, & cheap products.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: Ratings, Favorites, & more

This website is now offline.

[ Angry-Birds.net ]
Angry-Birds.net • Details

Angry-Birds.net

Angry-Birds.net is a feature-packed fan site for the Angry Birds iPhone/iPad game. Video tutorials, Game Map, Forum & more.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: forum, game map, & tons more

This website is now offline.

[ PhotoGenics ]
PhotoGenics • Details

PhotoGenics

PhotoGenics specializes in photo-booth services. Features multi-layered image sprites for optimal performance. This is one of my favorite designs.

  • Scope: 3-page brochure site
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • Features: lightbox image gallery

This website is now offline.

[ CSSresetr.com ]
CSSresetr.com • Details

CSSresetr.com

CSSresetr is a lightweight, super-fast & dynamic, ajax-powered CSS-reset tool. Live preview CSS resets, reset library, and more.

  • Scope: single-page, ajax-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, .htaccess
  • Features: user-loaded URLs, ajax stats
[ Dead Letter Art ]
Dead Letter Art • Details

Dead Letter Art

Dead Letter Art is a collective of artists collaborating on creative projects, content creation, and DIY publishing. R.I.P.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: Chat Forum, Guestbook, Archives

This website is now offline.

[ jQuery Mix ]
jQuery-Mix.com • Details

jQuery Mix

jQuery-Mix showcases the Web’s latest and greatest jQuery techniques. Features user-submitted content plus automated post import via RSS feeds.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: user-submitted posts

This website is now offline.

[ Moses Lake Church of Christ ]
Moses Lake Church of Christ • Details

Moses Lake Church of Christ

The "Moses Lake Church of Christ" website enables the local church community to share content, connect via chat, and organize activities.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: chat forum, message board
[ Perishable.biz ]
Perishable.biz • Details

Perishable.biz

Perishable.biz is a multimedia and graphics archive featuring photos, artwork, & video. Focused on clear, simple presentation and top performance.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: sleek design using no plugins

This website is now offline.

[ Pink Floyd Thoughts ]
PinkFloydThoughts • Details

Pink Floyd Thoughts

Pink Floyd Thoughts is an experimental fan site for the music band, Pink Floyd. Minimal lightweight design with a focus on content and usability. Wish I had more time.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: the greatest band of all time

This website is now offline.

[ artSpace magazine ]
artSpace magazine • Details

artSpace magazine

One of my first attempts at “serious” web design. Built with pure HTML and CSS, a meticulously crafted digital compendium of esoteric artistic expression.

  • Scope: Static site with faux content
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • Features: crazy details

This website is now offline.

[ Monzilla Media ]
Monzilla Media • Details

Monzilla Media

A (much) earlier version of the Monzilla Media website, circa 2006. Like a one-page CMS, featuring my web-design work, tutorials, news and more.

  • Scope: WordPress-powered website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: imported blog content
[ Design Netwerk ]
Design Netwerk • Details

Design Netwerk

The "Design Netwerk" is an experimental class project from way back in the day. Basically a virtual catalogue of useful online design resources.

  • Scope: Hand-built, dynamic website
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
  • Features: lightweight & fast

This website is now offline.

[ F-Disk Media ]
F-Disk Media • Details

F-Disk Media

F-Disk Media is a former business project focusing on supporting and promoting creative individuals. Website online 2004–2009, features multimedia and mystery.

  • Scope: Static brochure site
  • Tools: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • Features: obscure & ambiguous

This website is now offline.

Services

I provide the following services:

Complete Website Design

Complete website design & development includes everything you need for a awesome new site. WordPress sites are my specialty, just because WordPress is such a powerful tool for building everything from small blogs to full-featured Content Management Systems.

Your new site will be:

  • Secure, Search-Engine Optimized, and Social-Media savvy
  • Built with the finest tools: HTML/PHP, CSS & JavaScript/jQuery
  • Built according to current Web Standards, with clean separation of structure, presentation, behavior, and content
  • Accessible, User-friendly, and Compatible with all devices

The bottom line for complete website design is that your site will be of the highest possible quality and will look and do exactly what you want it to. Secure, simple, semantic & powerful.

Redesigns, Updates & Quick Fixes

I get quite a few requests for updates and quick fixes, including design modifications, troubleshooting & diagnosing, and just about everything else. Generally, requests for updates and quick fixes are handled immediately. Site redesigns and more extensive jobs may require scheduling.

WordPress Plugins

Need a WordPress plugin? There are many ways to enhance & customize the functionality of WordPress. Just about anything you need WordPress to do, it can do it. Often a plugin is the best choice, but there are other solutions as well, such as widgets and custom theme functions. If you’ve got something in mind, drop me a line.

WordPress Themes

WordPress themes are completely awesome. There are a million places to download themes, but nothing beats having one built & customized just for you. I create WordPress themes that are beautiful, flexible, user-friendly designs built with clean code, semantic markup, and best practices.

Website Security

I am serious about website security. I have written countless tutorials, articles, & tips to help people secure their sites, and have developed many different techniques to fight spam, block bad guys, and prevent malicious attacks. There are some real bad people lurking the Web, but I can help protect your site and keep it running safely and securely.

HTAccess Help

I greatly enjoy working with Apache and PHP configuration files. I have written many articles & tutorials about HTAccess and how to do amazing tricks with stuff like mod_rewrite, mod_alias & friends. My work with HTAccess has been published on the Web and in printed form, and I am proficient at using HTAccess to diagnose errors, customize functionality, and protect your website.

SEO Help

How is your site performing in the Search Engines? How are you using Social Media to share and promote your business? Is your website optimized with proven SEO techniques that will help your sites in the search-engine results? When it comes to SEO and succeeding to the Web, these questions are critical. After analyzing your site, I can help answer these questions and develop a solid SEO strategy for your site.

Fine-Tuning & Detailing

I am an expert at fine-tuning and detailing just about anything. Websites, markup and other code are never really complete – there are always ways to improve the design and functionality of any website, plugin, or application. My detailing and fine-tuning skills will make your project the best it can be.

Content Creation & Copywriting

Need content? I can help you with copywriting, blog posts, editing, graphics, and multimedia content. Contact me for more information.

Domain Names & Hosting

Need help registering a domain name and setting up hosting for your website? I can help with choosing a smart domain name and getting it registered & resolved to your website. I can also help with finding the best hosting for your needs. I also offer hosting from my own Media Temple (dv) server for select accounts.

Consultation

Put my years of experience to work with a private consultation. Available in 30-minute increments via email, chat, or good ol’ telephone.

Other Services

I also provide the following services:

  • Custom Form Design
  • Graphic Design
  • DIY Publishing

Need help with something not listed here? Let me know!

About

Hello, I am Jeff Starr..

[ Jeff Starr ] Monzilla Media is where I do business. From web development to graphic design and everything in between, I have the skills & experience to help you succeed on the Web. I provide a wide range of design services, and specialize in building WordPress-powered sites that are clean, beautiful, and easy to use.

I’ve been creating on the Web since 1999, and have worked with many awesome people from all over the world. I live and work in the small town of Moses Lake, Washington, where we enjoy 300 days of sunshine every year. Lots of great outdoors stuff to do around here.

When I’m not designing sites and working on the Web, I like to travel. When that’s not possible, I enjoy working on my art and hanging out with family and friends. In the future, I would like to mobilize my operation, work remotely on the Web, and see the World.

Some of my favorite projects

Websites

Web-Dev Books

Video Tutorials

Others

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Tools of the trade

I build clean & secure sites using some of the best open-source tools:

Contact

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