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 (October 2013)

Ladies and gents, our fresh resources compilation has reached its first year! And I’m really excited for this round as we have put together some rea…

Building a Mobile Panel with jQuery Mobile

In terms of screen size, mobile devices have smaller screens than a PC monitor. When viewing webpages or apps, there are some elements that are transl…

Boost Your HTML & CSS Workflow with Emmet

As web developers, we’re constantly searching for tools to enhance our workflow and productivity. This post is dedicated to web developers who frequ…

How to Edit and Debug Code Directly in Google Chrome Workspace

It’s common to use the browser’s Developer Tools to debug and test code during website development. However, changes made in Developer Tools do no…

How to Create a Github Page for Your Project

So here is the story: you built a cool open source project and shared it to the world for free. Then, it suddenly got really popular, and as more and …

5 Ways to Optimise Your Social (Count) Buttons

Note: This post was first published on the Sep 17, 2013. Nowadays, including social sharing buttons on web pages is a popular way to boost user intera…

How to Use CSS3 Page Breaks to Organize Printed Web Pages

While we live in a digital era where most content is easily accessible online, many people still prefer reading long-form text on paper. It’s possib…

Creating a Stitched Effect Using CSS

There are many visual effect possibilities we can achieve with CSS; the limit is only our creativity and imagination. This time, as the title suggests…

Quickly Fix Grunt ‘Command Not Found’ Error in Terminal

In one of our previous post we have discussed how to build customized jQuery. In the process, we used Grunt to perform the task, for testing, compilin…

7 Tips To Better Mobile-Optimized Websites

More and more people get online through their smartphone and tablet these days. So, it is important that we as designers and developers address how ou…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (September 2013)

Four months to go before we revisit another round of new year resolutions. In the meantime, let’s see what is in store for September’s round-up of…

A Look Into: Using CSS Variables

Variables finally come to CSS. Yes, the CSS that we use everyday for styling webpages. We have disccused several times on using variables with CSS Pre…