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.

Latest posts

Setting Up PHP, Apache, and MySQL on macOS Without MAMP Part II

In the previous tutorial of this series, we configured Apache and PHP, enabling us to run .php files on our local server. As a follow-up, we will now …

How to Install PHP, Apache, and MySQL on a Mac Without Using MAMP

Using MAMP is probably the easiest way to get PHP, Apache, and MySQL up and running on macOS. You simply place the application in the Applications fol…

A Guide to: Responsive Web Design with Bootstrap 3 and Sass

Bootstrap offers a responsive grid system and a variety of web components that make it easy to create a responsive website swiftly. While Bootstrap tr…

Covering Event in Real-time with Liveblog for WordPress

Liveblogging is a popular way to cover an event in real-time – it is similar to a Twitter feed, only it happens on your own site. If you like to fol…

CSS4 Document Rule: A User’s Guide

Lots of websites have a ton of pages, but typically use just a single stylesheet to dictate the design. This is good practice because it reduces HTTP …

How to Publish a Post to WordPress via Email

WordPress post and page editor comes with a WYSIWYG editor, making it as easy to write and format posts as using a word processor like Microsoft Word …

3 LESS CSS Features You Should Know

It’s been a while since our last discussion on LESS CSS. Today, LESS CSS has reached version 1.5, and it has been evolving with new features that ma…

Creating Animated Tooltip Easily with Hint.css

Tooltip is a great way to display extra information on a website without taking extra space. The tooltip generally appears upon mouse hover, and there…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (February 2014)

It’s already the second month of the new year (gasp!), we hope you are still working towards your goal and New Year resolutions. And if yours was to…

18 Essential Plugins For Sublime Text

Even though SublimeText comes with a bunch of great features that help our work as web developers, like any other tool, there will always be a room fo…

Optimize WordPress Monitoring and Tracking with Stream Plugin

Note: This post was first published on the Jan 29, 2014. WordPress offers all the essential tools to build and manage your website independently. Howe…