About My Webshop & about Jim Moore 

About My Webshop

... in the beginning

Hello, my name is Jim Moore and I'll be your waiter today!

My Webshop was created initially to help serve my website design customers by providing them with a private workshop area where they could actually watch their sites being created - live on the Internet from their own home/office and on their own browser.

That way they could see how their site worked on their computer, and I could tweak settings to get the optimum result. It doesn't matter how it looks on my computer. The customer judges the results by how it looks on their computer.

This also enables me to see what I need to do to make the site as user-friendly on as many web browsers as possible - and there are several, let me tell you!

To my knowledge this had never been done before ... and I still don't know of anyone else who offers this service.

Certainly it isn't difficult. In fact, it makes my job a lot easier because:

  • I spot problems early on before it reaches a point where it takes days or weeks to fix God-only-knows how many different pages.

  • It provides the customer with a wide choice of background textures, colors, bullets, buttons, bars, photos, banners, typestyles and all the other bells and whistles they may or may not want. They can just browse through the workshop and see exactly what the different components will look like.

  • It saves me from having to explain things over the phone or in e-mail, often repeating the same explanations over and over. This cuts down or eliminates any misunderstandings.

  • It gives the customer a sense of involvement and participation, to whatever extent they choose.

  • It also gives the customer the ability to price the features and benefits they are looking at, on an al carte menu.

  • Each site's workshop contains a "To Do" list that shows exactly what remains to be done, who is responsible, and the date it is completed.

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From There to Here

After a few years, it became obvious that I could also use this opportunity to offer a wide variety of e-books, software, tools, tips, articles and scripts that anyone could use whether I designed their website or they chose to do it themselves.

I couldn't see ignoring the growing do-it-yourself market of people who, I'm sorry to say, have been ripped off by over-priced and dishonest "web designers."

In many ways it's easier for me to sell you the tools you want or need than to do it myself!

This is not to dishonor my own skills, but the fact is that I am now a full-time caregiver to my wife, who suffered a serious stroke in November 2005. I can't drive 100 miles a day to an outside job that barely pays the gas, so I am now working from our home near Nashville, Tennessee.

I can work any hours I want or need to, and my bed is only 30 feet away ... so I can work 'til I drop if I must. I am within sound of my wife and can look through the door right into our bedroom where she spends much of her time.

It's a plus for my clients because I'm nearly always near the phone (615-847-8222). And it keeps your costs down because I don't have the expensive overhead of running a "real" office.

At the moment, the office is in the garage, a 16x20 foot area that provides space for numerous computers, audio/video equipment, work tables and lots of shelves, as well as room for clients to come and visit if they wish.

It certainly isn't the fanciest office you'll ever see, but it gets the job done!

It's well equipped with an iMac and several IBM-compatible computers, including two laptops I can take with me on customer calls. I also have a scanner (a few actually), a fax, both inkjet and B/W laser printers, combined hard drive storage space of about 2,000 gigabytes. CD/DVD burners and enough software to choke an elephant, including Microsoft Office, MS Front Page, Photoshop, Dreamweaver (which I seldom use), and lots of other programs, many of which I share with My Webshop members (legally, of course)!

I've done websites for people all over the world - from California to Hawaii - sometimes without ever meeting them in person. I'd like the chance to do the same thing for you!

About Jim Moore

Hello again! Yup, it's the same me, but with a few more years, a few less teeth - and a quadruple bypass - added.

I've become somewhat "famous" (or "infamous") over the past several decades, so I won't go into a lot of boring detail here, except what's necessary to make you feel comfortable, I hope, with who I am and what I stand for.

I'm one of those endangered species sometimes called "a Renaissance man" ... or so I'm told:

a nerd, musician, writer, photographer, gardener, plumber, carpenter, farmer, fix-it handyman, web designer, tutor, computer repairman, nature lover, avid reader, philosopher, scientist, paralegal, reporter- editor- publisher, TV show host & producer for eight years, husband, father,  grandpa ... and meaner 'n a junkyard dog when I have to be.

Back in the early 1960s before it was hip to be a nerd (we were called "eggheads" then), I had my sights set on an Air Force career as an aerospace engineer. In fact, I majored in aerospace engineering at the University of Kansas after graduating from Pratt (KS) High School in 1963.

The Nerd in Me!

Most web designers are techno-nerds and I guess I can't escape the label. In 1961 at the age of 16, I designed and built a spy satellite called Project OBSAT (I'm on the right here with engineers from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, KS - the satellite is to my right).

It was also the same year I ran away from home because of an alcoholic and abusive stepfather. I lived in the school basement for several weeks before I was discovered by the school janitor.

The project won a lot of attention in military circles and the kid from Kansas won a lot of awards from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and NASA. I ended up being a 1963 International Science Fair finalist.

Whoopee! That and 5 bucks will get me a cup of Starbucks!

But life has a way of hitting you with some funny detours.

The events of November 22, 1963 sent my life into a tailspin. I was deeply affected by the murder of John F. Kennedy.

Thanks to a drunken stepfather who liked little girls (like my sisters) I had to drop out of college and go back to Pratt, KS and try to rescue my kid sister.

I tried to continue college at the Pratt Community College while at the same time working as a reporter for an award-winning daily newspaper, The Pratt Tribune.

From Nerd to Mercenary

From there I was going to go into the Air Force along with two high school buddies, but an infected in-grown toenail meant I didn't pass the physical, so I made the mistake of going to work for a door-to-door magazine sales crew and, when I couldn't tell the lies expected, was stuck in Des Moines, Iowa.

It was there I got involved with a group of anti-Castro Cuban exiles (that's yet another story!) and my life lurched toward politics and military intelligence, even going so far as to go along on some excursions into Cuba with the Students for a Democratic Cuba (SDC) as a photographer. I wasn't prepared for what happened when one of the others tossed a rifle in my lap and told me to start shooting!

Murder, Politics & Presidential Scandals

After my brief immersion in the world of mercenaries and cloak-and-dagger (the SDC had actually been created by the CIA I found out years later), I went back into journalism and politics, working for National Features Syndicate in Chicago.

One of the highlights of those years was a bitter run-in with the governor of Indiana when I began investigating the wrongful conviction of Randy K. Wilson, convicted of second-degree murder in former Vice President Dan Quayle's backyard of Huntington, IN.

In 1968 I was a volunteer worker for the Robert Kennedy campaign in Chicago. When he, too, was assassinated, I became Illinois state chairman for the presidential campaign of Sen. Eugene McCarthy and got involved in some nasty warfare with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the Illinois governor.

In the aftermath of that horrible year of death and upheaval, I defeated the Daley political machine in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision reaffirming the principle of one man-one vote.

Even though I won the case, the Supreme Court didn't hand down their ruling until after the 1968 elections.

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From the Chicago Mob to Fairview, TN

After a Chicago mob contract was put out on me for exposing a national watch-counterfeiting ring that resulted in the arrest of 47 New Jersey mob scumbags, I gave up life in the big city and headed south, first to Birmingham where I worked as a graphic designer on the training manuals used for NASA and the military, then to Fairview, TN.

There I started my own newspaper, the controversial Fairview Flyer. I quickly learned Chicago-style journalism didn't fly in small-town Tennessee and spent three months in jail for, basically, publishing a newspaper on Sunday ... but obviously there was a lot more to it than that.

Remind me sometime to tell you the story about Morris Heithcock, the Williamson County deputy murdered on his way to my house with a bombshell story one night.

On the Trail of the Assassins

When I walked out of jail in 1975 I had lost my newspaper and my family, and had to start all over, working as a freelance writer - more successfully than I had thought possible. I also went to work for Modern People magazine (actually a tabloid) with one assignment: discover the truth about the JFK murder.

Over the next several months I became somewhat of an "expert" on mind control and developed a close friendship with Texas Congressman Henry Gonzalez, who created the House Select Committee on Assassinations. He asked me to find out what the links were between Watergate burglar and Dallas.

Tapping into the military and intelligence sources I had used at National Features Syndicate, I discovered there indeed was a connection, one which still remains hidden from most of the American people. You'll find more details on this story at TennTimes the News.

When a $75,000 contract was put out on Rep. Gonzalez and I was nearly terminated myself in Nashville, both Gonzalez and I walked away from the monster we had discovered.

For several years I worked at various typesetting jobs for local printers and did freelance graphic design. But I still kept active in politics, serving as Davidson County (TN) co-chairman of the presidential campaign of John Anderson.

The Iran-Contra affair of the Reagan administration was another milestone in my career, after I watched Texas Congressman Jack Brooks on national TV bring up some information I had provided to all the members of the Iran-Contra Committee - the establishment of prison camps in the U.S. to hold future political "enemies" of whatever administration might be in power.

That chapter eventually led to an eight-year labor of love writing, producing and hosting The Omega Report, a weekly hour-long documentary cablecast to 3.5 million homes in Tennessee, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.

That adventure, too, made the news when I predicted the Oklahoma City bombing on the show just two weeks before it happened, using a proprietary events-analysis system I had used before in The Omega Report newsletter to predict the fall of the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union three years before it happened, much to the surprise of the CIA.

When I moved from Nashville to a farm some 50 miles west of there in 1999, I quit the show and devoted my time to the Internet, believing I could reach far more people at less cost.

Today, life is pretty tame. It has to be. I had a quadruple bypass in August 2001 and had to slow down somewhat. But I still do the work I love - writing, music, nature.

My writing is limited to the websites I do and to a growing number of e-books, audio-books and videos I've been working on since Sept. 11, 2001.

And no, they're not all about politics and intrigue.

Some of them have to do with Native American history, legends and prophecy. Others deal with alternative health techniques such as energy healing - based on the same technology I used in 1961 to give America a new tool in its spy satellite arsenal. Still others have to do with computer viruses, heating & air conditioning, do-it-yourself web design books & videos, and whatever else comes along that grabs my interest.

I hope this has given you a look at the man behind the technology of this website and our sister sites.