{"id":338,"date":"2008-12-31T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cssnewbie.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2008-12-31T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:51:18","slug":"the-year-in-review-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/the-year-in-review-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year In Review: 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2008 was a great year for CSS Newbie. And in the same nostalgic spirit of CSS-Tricks,<\/a> Smashing Magazine<\/a> and (I\u2019m sure) countless other web entities, I thought I\u2019d take a minute or two to step back and reflect on what the year has brought for CSS Newbie.<\/p>\n

Although I first purchased cssnewbie.com some time in the middle of 2007 and wrote my first \u201cintro to CSS\u201d article<\/a> in November of last year, I didn\u2019t officially launch the site until February 1, 2008. Thus, this article also serves as History of CSS Newbie \u2013 before 2008, there wasn\u2019t such a website, and now there is. And thanks to you fantastic readers and commenters out there, it\u2019s become a better and more rewarding website than I had imagined it could.<\/p>\n

Growth<\/h3>\n

On January 1, 2008, CSS Newbie had exactly zero visitors \u2013 it seems even I was too busy recovering from my celebrating to stop by! Luckily, that trend hasn\u2019t continued. I published my first \u201cofficial\u201d article on the site (talking about how to create book-style article introductions)<\/a> on February 1st. That day I saw a huge jump in traffic… 11 visits! <\/p>\n

By the end of the week, that one article had gained me a couple hundred visitors, and a milestone against which to work. Although the number was small, that first week\u2019s worth of traffic meant a great deal to me. It proved, if nothing else, that maybe I wasn\u2019t entirely crazy to think that I could put together a website talking about CSS. Maybe, just maybe, a few people would find what I had to say interesting. <\/p>\n

That first successful article gave me the drive to write a second, and so forth until here we are at the end of 2008 and the CSS Newbie table of contents is chock full of interesting tidbits, so much so that I often find myself looking through the archive to remember how to do things I\u2019ve forgotten! That\u2019s one benefit of writing for CSS Newbie that I never expected.<\/p>\n

Statistics<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m a bit of a statistics nerd. As such, here are some interesting stats that help visualize the year\u2019s progression.<\/p>\n