About

I’m Jim Nielsen, a web designer and developer with 20+ years experience, and this is my blog where I refine my thinking. It’s loved and referenced by many web design professionals and publications.

Stats

I keep these stats for my blog. Read into them what you will, as Homer Simpson once said, “You can come up with statistics to prove anything. 40% of all people know that.”

Writing

• Years Blogging 14
• Posts 660
• Words 513,105
• Tags 57
• External Links 2,877
• Internal Links 389

Posts / Words Per Year

• 2012 5 / ~2k
• 2013 29 / ~10k
• 2014 7 / ~6k
• 2015 14 / ~17k
• 2016 12 / ~16k
• 2017 20 / ~29k
• 2018 26 / ~38k
• 2019 45 / ~58k
• 2020 65 / ~66k
• 2021 85 / ~71k
• 2022 121 / ~90k
• 2023 100 / ~52k
• 2024 108 / ~56k
• 2025 23 / ~11k

Top Tags View all

1. readingNotes 67
2. engineering 61
3. css 34
4. designProcess 31
5. iconGalleries 24
6. myBlog 22
7. bookNotes 20
8. netlify 18
9. tips 13
10. html 11

Top External Links View all

1. twitter.com 278
2. github.com 193
3. adactio.com 93
4. youtube.com 77
5. mozilla.org 70
6. iosicongallery.com 66
7. wikipedia.org 55
8. css-tricks.com 54
9. daverupert.com 47
10. stackoverflow.com 46

Top Internal Links View all

1. /2021/writing-in-2020-and-2021/ 9
2. /2020/switching-from-react-to-js-for-templating/ 6
3. /2024/making-omgimg-pt-i/ 6
4. /2019/netlify-public-folder-part-i-what/ 5
5. /2022/joining-remix/ 5
6. /2022/the-web-beyond-browsers/ 5
7. /2024/making-omgimg-pt-iv/ 5
8. /2019/netlify-public-folder-part-ii-why/ 4
9. /2022/notes-from-in-and-out-of-style/ 4
10. /2022/stats-page/ 4