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 (January 2014)

Hey it’s a new year! Happy new year to all our readers and thanks for checking in on us for more fresh resources for designers. Like all our previou…

Creating Design Specifications in Photoshop Using SpecKing

Editor’s note: SpecKing is no longer in service. Imagine you’re a web designer, preparing to pass your Photoshop designs (PSD) to web developers w…

How to Customize Your WordPress Query

Today, we’re going to explore the WordPress Query. Although the official WordPress documentation for Query exists, it can be quite overwhelming and …

Customize WordPress Admin Color Scheme

WordPress just got a new upgrade and 3.8 comes with a bunch of new thing to be excited about. One that you will notice immediately, is that the WP-Adm…

How to Convert Web Images to Grayscale: 3 Easy Methods

I’ve always been a fan of grayscale images because they look more artistic. Many photo editors, like Photoshop, allow you to turn colorful images in…

How to Display “Featured Content” in WordPress

You probably have stories in your blog you want to highlight to your readers. This is commonly referred to as “Featured Posts” or “Featured Cont…

How to Inspect Font Family with Google Chrome

It’s a rather common practice to use multiple fonts for a single page on a website. For example, we can write the following: font-family: Times New …

How to Enable Maintenance Mode on Your WordPress Site

Sometimes, you may need to put your website into maintenance mode for upgrades. This will make your website temporarily unavailable to public access. …

5 (More) Useful Chrome DevTools Tips for Developers

Google Chrome comes with a handy set of web development tools in the form of DevTools (The Chrome Developer Tools). In a previous post, we showed you …

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (December 2013)

Since we are at the end of the year 2013, we want to make this series special. As always, every month, we search for tools, apps, and resources for we…

How to Convert Photoshop Text to SVG

With the advent of high-definition screens, web designers must ensure their images are optimized for HD to avoid blurry or pixelated websites. Using v…

A Look Into: HTML5 Download Attribute

Creating a download link is usually an easy task. All we need to do is use an anchor tag <a>, and add the reference URL pointing to the file. Bu…