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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Koala App: A Cross-platform App for Modern Web Development

In the days of Netscape and Internet Explorer 6, most web developers only wrote web documents in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Today, we have plent…

A Look Into: Internet Explorer 11 DevTools

The Internet Explorer in-browser Developer Tools (IE DevTools) has long been lacking several critical functionalities for debugging, making it nearly …

5 Reasons Why I Don’t Install WordPress Plugins

… well not ALL WordPress plugins, just the bad ones. Like every other tool out there, there are some plugins that work for you, e.g. for creating co…

A Look Into Atom: Github’s New Code Editor

Github, a popular git repository that hosts a ton of open source projects, has recently announced a new code editor called Atom which shook the “cod…

How to Create WordPress Custom Fields The Easy Way

WordPress provides the essential fields that allow us to publish posts and pages. A few of these fields include the Content Editor, Category Options, …

Find and Install WordPress Plugins via Github

WordPress plugins are “officially” distributed through the WordPress-owned plugin repository. You can search for any kind of plugin to add extra f…

Let’s Talk About Mobile Emulation in Google Chrome

Mobile emulation is a powerful feature built right into Google Chrome. If you’re a web developer, QA tester, or digital marketer, it’s something y…

What’s New In Codekit 2

Codekit 2 was released a few weeks ago, and as expected, there are some big changes in this new version. For those of you who’ve just heard of it, C…

How to Manage and Use Code Snippets in WordPress

In our previous discussions, we explored various WordPress customizations that involve adding code to the functions.php file to enhance theme function…

12 Essential Plugins for WordPress Developers

As the current most-used CMS, WordPress has numerous plugins that enhances its capabilities. To name a few, there is a very popular plugin called WooC…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2014)

We have been covering this series for almost two years. But it seems that the resources for developers and designers are infinite; every month, there …

Easy Mac Setup: Install PHP, Apache & MySQL – Part III

This is the last part of our series: Install PHP, Apache, and MySQL in Mac without MAMP. And if you have been following the series (see Part 1 and Par…