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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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Most-linked posts?
- Yet another viewport resizing tool4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-02-25
- Responsive navigation patterns3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-28
- Single-Field Credit Card Input Pattern2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-20
- Fixed Positioning in Mobile Browsers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-10
- Responsive Web Design: Missing the Point 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-21
What Hacker News says?
Coincidentally, 'ish' is the name of a useful viewport tester for responsive design. http://bradfrostweb.com/demo/ish/
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on “Responsive Logos”Submitted Float Label Pattern as a story · 162 points
HN discussionI'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…
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on “Optimal Characters Per Line”Submitted Redesigning Techcrunch as a story · 72 points
HN discussionThe 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…
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on “How to build hybrid mobile apps combining native UI components with HTML5”Submitted How much does a responsive web design cost? as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Fuck You.” as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile Web Problems and How to Avoid Them as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Single-Field Credit Card Input Pattern as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Development is design by Brad Frost as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing In The Open as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Progressive Enhancement as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Atomic Web Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance As Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive Web Design: Missing the Point as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive navigation patterns as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On speaking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 7 Habits of Highly Effective Media Queries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive Navigation Patterns as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Response to ‘Responsive Web Design is Not the Future’ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Invisible Aspects of Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive web design is missing the point as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixed Positioning in Mobile Browsers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job Title: It’s Complicated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive Disco as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Single-Field Credit Card Input Pattern as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet another viewport resizing tool as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML Wireframes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive Strategy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ish. 2.0 as a story · 1 points
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