About the author..

Jeff Starr is a web developer, author, and educator specializing in web security and building awesome sites with WordPress. He co-authors the book and blog, Digging into WordPress, runs his own design company at Monzilla Media, and shares security and design articles here at Perishable Press. Jeff also does video screencasts and works part-time as WordPress Editor at Smashing Magazine. Follow Jeff on Twitter, get in touch, or continue reading for more info..

About the site..

Perishable Press features articles and tutorials on many aspects of digital design, and is very much a work in progress. It is where I test code, post discoveries, and share solutions. Perishable Press has been online since 2005 and continues to evolve in terms of content, structure, and design.

Perishable Press strives toward web standards, usability, and accessibility. The site runs on an Apache server, and is built with WordPress, PHP/MySQL, HTML5 (current theme), JavaScript/jQuery, and lots of fancy CSS+CSS3. Perishable Press is happily hosted at Media Temple on a (dv) server.

Perishable Press provides high-quality, in-depth articles on web design and development, graphic design, social media, blogging, software, and more. Learn how to use WordPress, PHP, SQL, HTAccess, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to create beautiful sites that are usable, accessible, and secure.

On the surface, Perishable Press delivers high-quality articles focusing on digital design and web development — WordPress, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, XML, RSS, (X)HTML, CSS, HTAccess, and many other 1337 acronyms — along with just about anything involving creativity, inspiration, and artistic expression.

The primary thrust of the site focuses on the geekier side of web design and development, with successive thrusts covering everything from digital photography and graphic design to multimedia production and creative writing. I like to imagine a niche where “Modern Creative Media” represents the dynamic intersection between creativity and technology.

Thanks for dropping in to check it out. Feel free to dig around and explore.. as they say, “there’s gold in them thar hills!”

Favorite Things

My favorite things web-related include clean, sophisticated sites; unobtrusive, gracefully degrading implementations; progressively enhanced designs; well-formatted, semantical code; strict standards compliance; separation of structure, presentation, and behavior; as well as simplicity, usability, accessibility, et al. I am also especially fond of WordPress, which powers the site and is continually modified and tweaked to suit my diabolical development purposes. I even co-authored a book about it.

I also work diligently with graphic design, image editing, vector art, iconography, and typography. I love to sketch, draw, and paint, and thoroughly enjoy diving into artistic realms over a good cup of coffee. Beyond those things, I am also into digital audio mixing, video editing, and digital photography. — “It’s all good.”

Current Projects

In general, I like to keep several projects going at once. Here is a list of my current endeavors:

Digging into WordPress

Co-author Chris Coyier and I help you get the most out of WordPress with our book, Digging into WordPress, and its official companion site, digwp.com. This project began late 2008 and has helped many people take their WordPress skills to the next level. And it’s a lot of fun too ;)

Monzilla Media

Established in 2007, Monzilla Media is where I do business. From small business sites and personal blogs to WordPress plugins and customized themes, Monzilla Media strives to develop high-quality web and new media solutions.

CSSresetr.com

CSSresetr lets you experiment with various CSS resets and watch them work on live web pages. You can use the site’s demo pages or even upload your own. Also includes a complete library of all the best CSS resets. 100% Ajax-powered and awesome.

Perishable.biz

Thus the goal and purpose of this site is to organize and share these many archive and portfolio pieces with anyone who dares to explore — art, photos, chunks, multimedia content, and much more — all within a well-designed, super-flexible, ultra-organized, comprehensively tagged online infrastructure of digital existence. Like putty in my hands.

eChunks.com

A place for collected images, random photos, and lots of random nonsense. There’s a private chat/upload forum on the site so members can sit there and chat, upload images, and watch the updates in real-time right there on the screen. It’s a lot of fun, and basically where I go to chill out and relax online.

Dead Letter Art

Dead Letter Art (DLa) is an “esoteric, underground art collective” of which I am a member. Established in 2000, the DLa collective collaborates on creative projects, artwork, desktop publishing, printed materials, and just about anything else that strikes our fancy.

Perishable Press

Perishable Press serves to define and highlight ideas, consolidate and integrate projects, and organize and express the myriad happenings unfolding throughout my vast creative empire.

Thank you..

For those of you who subscribe to the Official Perishable Press RSS Feed, I would like to thank you. Knowing that you are reading is truly inspiring and encouraging. If you have not yet subscribed, I would of course be honored if you would choose to do so. Either way, thank you for spending a few moments here at Perishable Press!

More Information

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