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

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (November 2013)

This series has completed a full run of 12 months thanks to your support. So far, you know the drill, but if you aren’t familiar with this series, w…

Exploring WordPress Date Queries for Post Filtering

We can display posts published on specific dates with the date parameters in WP_Query. The functionality, however, is basic. We can query posts by day…

How to Rename Your WordPress WP-Content Directory

If you have been working with WordPress, you probably already know that all assets like images, stylesheets, themes, and plugins in WordPress are by d…

Effortlessly Manage Notes and Lists with Sublime Text

There are a lot of free plugins created by the (awesome!) community to extend the capabilities of Sublime Text beyond just a code editor. In this post…

How to Install Ghost Blogging Platform on Your Mac

Note: This article was first published on: Oct 24, 2013. Ghost.org is a blogging platform created by John O’Nolan and further developed with the hel…

Create a Swipe-Enabled Slider with jQuery (Step-by-Step Guide)

Image/Content Slider is one of the common components we find in a website. It is quite simple to create one with jQuery. In fact; we have discussed it…

WordPress Tips: Displaying Author Lists with Pagination

In brief, the template tag is a simple way of querying information from the database and displaying it at the front side of your website. For example,…

Customizing Browser Scroll Bar With CSS / jQuery

Windows, OS X and Linux have their own style for the scroll bar as you can see in the following screenshot. This in return could lead to undesired res…

Adding CSS Vendor Prefix Automatically with Sublime Text

There are many CSS3 properties that are still experimental. An experimental CSS property uses vendor prefix, and as we already know, each browser has …

How to Auto-Compile LESS into CSS

We have discussed LESS CSS a few times in our previous posts. If you have been following our LESS post series, you should know that we have to compile…

A Beginner’s Guide to jQuery Selectors

As you may already know, CSS3 introduced a set of new selectors that allow us to select elements in the document with less HTML class addition. But, t…

Exploring WebP, The Image Format for the Web

Traditionally, JPEG and PNG have dominated web imagery. However, the advent of high-definition screens has forced web designers to rethink these forma…