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 (February 2013)

It’s the time of the month to feature more resources and tools to help designers and developers with their jobs. In this round, we will feature a fe…

Getting Started with Modernizr JavaScript Library

Modernizr is a JavaScript Library used by many popular websites including Twitter, USMagazine, Good.is, About.com, etc. In one of our previous posts, …

Getting Started with Twitter Bootstrap

Building a website from the ground up is very hard. Even some people who are able to code in web languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS would find di…

Optimize Your jQuery UI Accordion with Custom Themes

In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the process of creating a custom theme for the jQuery UI Accordion. We’ll leverage various CSS techniques…

How to Use CSS3 Multiple Backgrounds

Adding background image with CSS is nothing new, this feature has been there since its inception. But we were limited to only add one image in one dec…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (January 2013)

Time flies! We’re already in a new month, a new year. And a new year calls for a new batch of resources Here is the latest round up of great resourc…

Understanding HTML5 Shiv and Polyfills

Updates: Loading Polyfills is no longer a common practice to provide compatibility. You will find that a few of these repository linked on this articl…

Guide to: Using Transparency (Opacity) In Web Design

Note: This post was first published on the 7th Jan, 2013. Transparency is an effect that allows us to see what is underneath. In design, transparency …

HTML5 Basic Elements: Header, Nav, and Footer

HTML5 development is not finish yet. But, there a few new elements in HTML5 that can be used today, elements that are already supported in current and…

A Look Into: Essential Firefox Tools For Web Developers

Firefox stands out as a top choice for web developers, thanks to its array of useful extensions designed to simplify the development process. In this …

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (December 2012)

We are already in December; time seems to be running too fast, right? Much like the previous few months, we are going to feature some useful resources…

CSS3 Image Reflection [CSS3 Tips]

So far, we have discussed a lot of new properties in CSS3. Beyond that, there are actually a few other properties that are currently not included in C…