January is coming to a close already so I thought I’d better get this out! I want to do a little wrap up of 2007 and give my thanks where thanks is due.
Thanks to all you readers, subscribers, and commenters
I really appreciate everyone who has come to be a reader of CSS-Tricks. This has grown way bigger than I thought it would and it’s all thanks to you. Most of the content of this site comes from community discussion and questions sent to me.
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Thanks to my Guest Posters
David Walsh
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Jermayn Parker
-If anyone else would like to guest post, please contact me.
Top 5 Traffic Drivers (in order)
StumbleUpon
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DZone
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Google
Special Thanks to other blogs that link here regularly
Smashing Magazine
Noupe
Dr. Web
Xyberneticos
Posh CSS
etc.
I couldn’t list everyone here, but believe me, if you’ve linked here I’ve probably checked out your site and I really appreciate it!
Places I Guest Posted
Tutorial Blog
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Thanks to my Sponsors
You can trust I’m not getting rich over here =) — but the money I earn from having sponsors for this blog goes a long way to offsetting the costs this blog incurs as well as the time I put into writing/researching. So thank you sponsors!
Plans for 2008
There is lots of stuff cooking for 2008. For one thing, DZone has a new CSS Zone of which I will be a Zone Leader. I will be adding some of the content of this site over there at first. The zones are really just starting to take shape and it remains to be seen exactly how they will work, but I am sure it will continue to get cooler and more useful in time.
The other big plan is to start shooting screencasts. They will be focused on CSS (of course) and be walkthroughs of how to accomplish different techniques. Screencasts have some advantages and disadvantages. The big advantage is I feel like they do a better job of actually “teaching”. I can explain things in plain English and go through the thought process behind things easier through talking than writing. The disadvantage is that you can’t copy and paste code out of a screencast, so they can be less helpful on-the-fly. I don’t plan to go all-video with this site. I don’t even plan to commit myself to any regular video schedule. We’ll just see how it goes and see how you all like it and go from there.
One big final THANKS to everyone and I look forward to a great year!
Its been great to read the css tricks hear, so thanks Chris!
Any chance of adding your rss feed number? Also any other little subtle changes you got for the new year?
Parabem, Congrats, Felicitaciones! Chris!
have been so useful to read you blog! know I got some new tricks in my sleeve, thanks to you!
@Jermayn Parker: I am currently Photoshopping away at a new design, but it’s looking like it will take me a while to get anything up and running. I probably should put the FeedBurner subscriber count somewhere on here. I’ve always been a little conflicted about it but enough people have wanted to see it I guess I should. It’s over 2,300 now, which is sweet. It might not happen until the redesign though.
Hey Chris, great job this past year with CSS-Tricks and good luck moving forward. Sounds like you’ve got great things planned! Send me an email if you want to hear an interesting story about dZone…
Chris, Your Tricks are pretty much right on.
Everytime i write a post related to CSS techniques, i find myself surfing here at css-tricks and i just can’t help not adding it to my post :)
Hey Chris, Thanks greeting, I hope you can achieve anything you want for the 2008 and much more clear. What we need, you know where to find a friend. :)
It was a great pleasure to co-author with you. I hope we get around to write new articles.
Best Regards