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 (July 2015)

Web developers are blessed with free tools and resources found online, which we dutifully collect in our Fresh Resources series every month. If you mi…

Google Polymer – How It’ll Change the Way Web Apps are Built

Along with Google Photos, Google has also rebuilt Polymer from scratch, addressing performance improvement and efficiency. Think of Polymer as an SDK …

9 Google Photos Features You Need to Know

Learn how to use Google Photos to organize and share your photos easily. Get tips and tricks to make the most out of this powerful tool.

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (June 2015)

Can you believe that this series has been running for almost 3 years? In that short a time, we have featured at least 30 lists of the freshest resourc…

Google Fonts Not Working in China – How to Fix it

We are using Google API to serve libraries such as jQuery and Web Fonts because it serves fast through Google’s reliable infrastructures. It is used…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (May 2015)

It feels like New Year’s was just yesterday. Nonetheless, we are here now in May, and the time has come for us to share new resources with our fello…

Choosing the Right JavaScript MVC Framework [Infographic]

With web design and development evolving at a fast pace in the past couple of years, more and more new tools are introduced with better approaches to …

5 Essential Tips for Installing WordPress Plugins

Plugins make WordPress powerful – we can change and add almost any functionality to WordPress easily just by using a plugin. However, not all plugin…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (April 2015)

How’s your (friendly reminder) April Fool’s Day this year? Well, for the rest of us who aren’t into pranks, here’s the latest installment of f…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2015)

Time for another round of fresh resources, for the month of March. In this round of series, we have a budding browser, mockups for a device of the wea…

10 WordPress Plugins For Better Backend Administration

One of the best parts about WordPress is how easy it is to customize with plugins. To illustrate its flexibility, here are a few examples of what you …

How to Use WordPress Jetpack Offline

Jetpack comes with plenty of modules to help you use contact forms, utilize infinite scrolling, shortcodes, and a whole lot more. These features can h…