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Brian Cray
Personal blog · briancray.comdesignwebbusiness
Brian Cray's personal blog at briancray.com covers design, web and business. Since 2009, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Getting sign-up: elements of an effective online community signup process”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brian Cray's posts on web design tools, books, and short technical tips, such as locating web visitors with JavaScript and Google Analytics time-on-site figures. Commenters mostly cite them without comment.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Getting sign-up: elements of an effective online community signup process2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-13
- Does your website add features or solve problems?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-30
- 3 eye tracking studies that influenced my latest redesign2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-28
What Hacker News says?
But you ARE just collecting links and saying "here they are". http://briancray.com/2009/06/13/5-web-tools-user-experience/ Just a link with a "sign up for free" blurb. http://briancray.com/2009/05/04/5-books-web-professionals/ Two sentence synopsis' with a link to Amazon. http://briancray.com/2009/07/27/eye-tracking-studies-influen... Two sentence synopsis' with a link to the REAL content. The REAL irony is the titl…
Comment linking /2009/07/27/eye-tracking-studies-influence-redesign/
on “If you hate all of the unoriginal design blogs, this post is for you”Submitted HTML5 Microdata: Why isn't anyone talking about it? as a story · 79 points
HN discussion6. Pretend you are better than your competition and mock them. Check out the posts on that site http://briancray.com/blog/ How is he any better?
Comment linking /blog/
on “If you hate all of the unoriginal design blogs, this post is for you”- pw · 2010-03-05
Submitted Fire the “web designer” as a story · 40 points
HN discussion Hi, looks like it was a fun project. While you save yourself from checking the DB for a duplicate hash with your hex id strategy, a side effect of this technique is that every URL created with your service is effectively public. For instance, I could start at http://briancray.com/tests/shorturl/0 and work my way up through every URL ever shortened by incrementing the id in hex. Whether this is a vulnerability or und…
Comment linking /tests/shorturl/0
on “Free PHP URL shortener script that can shorten over 4 billion URLs”Submitted If you hate all of the unoriginal design blogs, this post is for you as a story · 37 points
HN discussionI guess the only thing to do would be to compare the GeoLocation API result with some other data like GeoIP[1] failing that you could look through the browser history - assuming that if you were in siberia you would have visited a siberian domain (by TLD) recently. [1] http://briancray.com/posts/find-web-visitors-location-javasc...
Comment linking /posts/find-web-visitors-location-javascript-google-api/
on “Ask HN: Can you prevent me from hacking Facebook to check in from Siberia?”Submitted Target IE6 and IE7 with only 1 extra character in your CSS as a story · 36 points
HN discussionLooks like the trailing slash breaks the link (at least it does for me). I used http://briancray.com/2011/04/12/time-on-site-bounce-rate-get... and it loaded correctly.
Comment linking /2011/04/12/time-on-site-bounce-rate-get-the-real-numbers-in-google-analytics
on “Time On Site & Bounce Rate: Get the real numbers in Google Analytics”Submitted Diving deep into user behavior with Google Analytics, Event Tracking, and jQuery as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fire the "web designer" as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why developers should build single-purpose websites as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delicious.com loses its holy grail as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does your website add features or solve problems? as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web form usability: Better form submission feedback with jQuery as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Measure what is relevant: A critical look at bounce rates as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Online community best practices: Reward your top users as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Web 2.0 business models – where do you fit? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why some web-based products are successful and others aren’t as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 eye tracking studies that influenced my latest redesign as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting sign-up: elements of an effective online community signup process as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surviving Silicon Valley as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted UX Case Study: Designing a user-focused web app as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design better websites by thinking about your kitchen cabinets as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blog design best practice: Scrollbars not sidebars as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Calculate Distance With Javascript And Google Maps API as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Javascript module pattern: When to use it and why as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Detect retina displays with javascript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metadata design pattern for the web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted SEO for bloggers: Crafting high-ranking post titles as a story · 3 points
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