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Personal blog · bradfrostweb.comdesignweb

Create A Pro Website is a personal blog at bradfrostweb.com about design and web. Since 2011, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Yet another viewport resizing tool”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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37HN people?
2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 21 in 2013

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Yet another viewport resizing tool
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-02-25
  2. Responsive navigation patterns
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-28
  3. Single-Field Credit Card Input Pattern
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-20
  4. Fixed Positioning in Mobile Browsers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-10
  5. Responsive Web Design: Missing the Point
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. datashaman · 2014-07-23
    Coincidentally, 'ish' is the name of a useful viewport tester for responsive design. http://bradfrostweb.com/demo/ish/

    Comment linking /demo/ish/

    on “Responsive Logos”
  2. ryanjodonnell · 2013-11-06

    Submitted Float Label Pattern as a story · 162 points

    HN discussion
  3. dredmorbius · 2014-01-02
    I'm all about readable fonts, though mikeyanderson is going a bit overboard in the too big direction. He's also committing the fatal sin of mixing ems (for his h1 title font size) and px (for his h1 line height). The result is overlapping characters: http://i.imgur.com/tEplJmv.png I've griped on HN (and elsewhere) more than once about small fonts, low contrast ( http://www.contrastrebellion.com/ can't get enough goo…

    Comment linking /

    on “Optimal Characters Per Line”
  4. charlieirish · 2013-11-18

    Submitted Redesigning Techcrunch as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  5. amirnathoo · 2012-04-30
    The point is to get better results for the same effort. Instead of having to spend time styling the top bar and tab bar to look native, and battling with fixed positions and mobile browser inconsistencies, you just drop a line into your config. Many people seem to think fixed position elements and dealing with scrolling in mobile web views is a pain: http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/mobile/fixed-position/ http://www.kyl…

    Comment linking /blog/mobile/fixed-position/

    on “How to build hybrid mobile apps combining native UI components with HTML5”
  6. pulleasy · 2012-07-03

    Submitted How much does a responsive web design cost? as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  7. robin_reala · 2013-09-06

    Submitted “Fuck You.” as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  8. uptown · 2013-06-27

    Submitted Mobile Web Problems and How to Avoid Them as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. gits1225 · 2014-04-20

    Submitted Single-Field Credit Card Input Pattern as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. alwaysunday · 2013-10-07

    Submitted Development is design by Brad Frost as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. nvk · 2013-09-23

    Submitted Designing In The Open as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. mduvall · 2013-09-07

    Submitted On Progressive Enhancement as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. bergie · 2013-06-18

    Submitted Atomic Web Design as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. ChrisArchitect · 2013-01-28

    Submitted Performance As Design as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. dirtyaura · 2012-11-23

    Submitted Responsive Web Design: Missing the Point as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. orofino · 2012-02-28

    Submitted Responsive navigation patterns as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. onra87 · 2013-10-01

    Submitted On speaking as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. bpierre · 2013-09-18

    Submitted 7 Habits of Highly Effective Media Queries as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Dekku · 2013-07-16

    Submitted Responsive Navigation Patterns as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. nvk · 2013-04-01

    Submitted A Response to ‘Responsive Web Design is Not the Future’ as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. nvk · 2013-02-28

    Submitted The Invisible Aspects of Design as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. firlefans · 2012-03-21

    Submitted Responsive web design is missing the point as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. DanielRibeiro · 2011-11-10

    Submitted Fixed Positioning in Mobile Browsers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. johannh · 2014-10-13

    Submitted Job Title: It’s Complicated as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. shaaaaawn · 2014-07-24

    Submitted Responsive Disco as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. nickmain · 2014-07-17

    Submitted Single-Field Credit Card Input Pattern as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. akbarnama · 2014-05-29

    Submitted Yet another viewport resizing tool as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. tnorthcutt · 2014-05-20

    Submitted HTML Wireframes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. hepha1979 · 2014-02-27

    Submitted Responsive Strategy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. uptown · 2014-02-25

    Submitted Ish. 2.0 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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