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

Understanding CSS3 Circular and Elliptical Gradients

Today we are going to continue our discussion on CSS3 Gradients. In the previous post we’ve showed you how to create Linear Gradients. This time we …

Exploring HTML5 Form Input Types: Date, Color, and Range

Forms are ubiquitous across websites, serving as critical tools for user interaction. From logging into platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google t…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (October 2012)

Each month, the web design and development community generously shares a wealth of free resources. It can be overwhelming to keep track of all these n…

Create Multiple Columns Layout (Magazine-alike) With CSS3

In general, people will lose track when reading extremely long content. That is why, in print media like magazines and newspapers, the content is divi…

HTML5 Tutorial: Login Page with HTML5 Forms

HTML5 brings many features and improvements to web forms, there are new attributes and input types that were introduced mainly to make the lives of we…

How to Customize and Theme the jQuery UI Datepicker

jQuery UI is very user-friendly and is popular on many websites needing interactive features. In this post, we’ll explore one of its features, the D…

Effective Tips and Tools for Working with LESS

In our previous tutorial on using LESS to design a navigation bar, we explored the practical use of LESS for code compiling. This time, we’ll cover …

A Look Into: CSS3 Box-sizing

Not too long ago, when we designed a box on a webpage using a div element, we typically set both width and height to 100px, adding 10px of padding and…

How to Create a Responsive Navigation For Your Site

One of the trickiest parts to be responsified on a website is “the Navigation”, this part is really important for the website accessibility, as th…

A Look Into: CSS3 :first-of-type Structural Selector

One of the aspects I find most exciting about CSS3 is the introduction of new selectors. These selectors enable precise targeting of elements without …

Understanding Pseudo-Element :before and :after

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is primarily intended for applying styles to the HTML markup, however in some cases when adding extra markup to the docume…

Creating a Volume Controller with jQuery UI Slider

If you are a freebies hunter, chances are you have downloaded lots of PSD user interfaces (UI). Some of them are truly amazing and could save our time…