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 676
• Words 521,180
• Tags 59
• External Links 2,923
• Internal Links 398

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 39 / ~19k

Top Tags View all

1. readingNotes 67
2. engineering 61
3. css 33
4. designProcess 31
5. iconGalleries 24
6. myBlog 23
7. bookNotes 21
8. netlify 18
9. tips 13
10. html 12

Top External Links View all

1. twitter.com 278
2. github.com 196
3. adactio.com 93
4. youtube.com 81
5. mozilla.org 73
6. iosicongallery.com 66
7. css-tricks.com 57
8. wikipedia.org 55
9. daverupert.com 48
10. stackoverflow.com 47

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