Tips Archives – Alex Dimitrov

Resources for web developers and designers

I am love collecting interesting things to read. And I have a few resources I go through when doing so:

Front-end and backend

CSS-Tricks – obvious pick
DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 – Dev.to is a great new site with a lot of content written by the dev community
WDRL – Web Development Reading List | The Weekly has a ton of content already + new content posted each week
phly, boy, phly :: Welcome
The Man in the Arena by Carl Alexander
Tom McFarlin | Practical WordPress Development
WP Dev News – Fresh news for WordPress developers
Bruce Lawson’s personal site
bitsofcode
Pony Foo — Web platform, JavaScript, modularity, front-end architecture, performance, and more!
CSS { In Real Life }
A List Apart – For people who make websites
Web design and development articles and tutorials for advent ◆ 24 ways

Design:

Others:

If you have any other great resources you use on a weekly basis, please share!

January 2, 2020

How I crafted my view for the League of Legends champions select screen

It all started in my school years when I and my buds were playing together online in the hours after school till midnight (and after more often than not).

Now, I wasn’t a hardcore gamer, not even close, though I could say that I am more or less proud of my “Global Elite” rank achievement on CS:GO.

So it was then when I stumbled upon League of Legends – an MOBA style game by Riot Games – a game with more than 100 million active users each month!

So you can see how quickly I got addicted to it, hitting hours and hours every day. In case you don’t know it (or the MOBA genre in general) it’s a team based 5v5 game where each player controls a champion with a set of unique abilities.

I won’t get into details about the gameplay as this is not the goal of this writing, but I must say a few general words to explain it better anyways.

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August 10, 2017

Decision making as a designer and front-end developer in a WordPress agency

First, let’s start with what “decision making” is, and more importantly – good decision making.

When trying to make a good decision, a person must weight the positives and negatives of each option, and consider all the alternatives.

Clients come with problems. And they want them solved. Most of the time that’s a business problem, not technical. They want growth, they want improvement, they want income. Designing and developing must come with this core idea in mind. You want to provide a product that will improve your client’s business.

But to do so as an agency, you have to understand the business of your client. Why a certain design decision is better than another. What is the user base? How will this design decision affect the technical implementation of it and therefore the budget of your client? Long term commitment is crucial for understanding this.