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 703
• Words 533,536
• Tags 60
• External Links 2,985
• Internal Links 419

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 66 / ~31k

Top Tags View all

1. readingNotes 67
2. engineering 61
3. css 34
4. designProcess 31
5. iconGalleries 25
6. myBlog 23
7. bookNotes 21
8. netlify 19
9. html 13
10. tips 13

Top External Links View all

1. twitter.com 278
2. github.com 199
3. adactio.com 94
4. youtube.com 88
5. mozilla.org 73
6. iosicongallery.com 66
7. css-tricks.com 57
8. wikipedia.org 56
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. /2025/is-it-javascript/ 5
9. /2019/netlify-public-folder-part-ii-why/ 4
10. /2022/notes-from-in-and-out-of-style/ 4