Thoriq Firdaus

Thoriq is a writer for Hongkiat.com with a passion for web design and development. He is the author of Responsive Web Design by Examples, where he covered his best approaches in developing responsive websites quickly with a framework.

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (April 2015)

How’s your (friendly reminder) April Fool’s Day this year? Well, for the rest of us who aren’t into pranks, here’s the latest installment of f…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2015)

Time for another round of fresh resources, for the month of March. In this round of series, we have a budding browser, mockups for a device of the wea…

10 WordPress Plugins For Better Backend Administration

One of the best parts about WordPress is how easy it is to customize with plugins. To illustrate its flexibility, here are a few examples of what you …

How to Use WordPress Jetpack Offline

Note: This post was first published on the Feb 23, 2015. Jetpack offers a variety of modules to enhance your WordPress site with features like contact…

30 CSS Puns That Prove Designers Have a Great Sense of Humor

The job of a web designer can be a real pain and frustrating one, but it is also a close-knit community with a healthy sense of humor. Take for instan…

Control How Google Indexes Your Content with Meta Tags

There are many search engines out there but most of the time, site owners care about getting their site indexed on the almighty Google. One way to per…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (February 2015)

After doing this for more than a year, the hardest part about writing this monthly resource pile for designers and developers is the introduction. Whi…

10 Windows Phone Tricks and Settings You Should Know

You feel so excited as you have just received a brand new Windows Phone. You start exploring the phone in almost all the corners. You have already ins…

How to Download & Install Apps on Older Version of iOS

iOS 8 comes with many improvements and plenty of new features such as Continuity, Apple Pay and SMS Relay. Sadly, many of these features will not work…

Creating Custom Meta Boxes in WordPress

In a previous post, we discussed the WordPress custom field, which allows you to add and display new entries in a post using the Custom Field box prov…

How to Retrieve Your Gravatar Image URL

Having a profile picture also known as “avatar image” is pretty essential online. We upload our best profile picture on websites and social sites …

How to Add Custom Fields in WordPress Without Using Plugins

WordPress allows developers to tailor the platform extensively to suit their specific needs, including the ability to add new metadata within posts. T…