Daniel Pataki

Daniel is a writer for Hongkiat.com. When not coding or writing, you'll find him playing board games or running with his dog. You can drop him a line on Twitter or visit his personal website.

Latest posts

Maximize Image Impact: Pre-Defined Sizes for WordPress

Optimizing images on a website is a daunting task. You can choose to use fewer images, compressed images, sprites or svg; the list goes on. One place …

20 Awesome Board Games For The Modern Day Geek

It pains me to see that adults not only "play" less and less — play is just as important as work if you’re looking for a balanced life — but tha…

Master WordPress in 12 Months: Essential Resources Included

If you want to learn something new this year, why not make it WordPress? It powers a huge chunk of the web, you’ll understand your own website bette…

14 Tools to Minify Javascript

Javascript minification is a technique which condenses your script into a much smaller footprint. You lose human readability but you conserve consider…

Using The TinyMCE Editor In WordPress [Guide]

Although they may not know its name, everyone who uses WordPress is familiar with the TinyMCE editor. It’s the editor you use when you create or edi…

Discover the Best Features of WordPress 4.1 Twenty Fifteen Theme

By the time you are reading this WordPress 4.1 is near release (or has been) and it will carry a new default theme, Twenty Fifteen. I actually like th…

20 Minimalistic & Professional Business Card Designs

Even in this day and age, business cards are important. They can serve many purposes: Reminders, a way to leave notes, portfolio showcases, a way to o…

How To Add Holiday Notices To Your WordPress Site

The festivities are upon us and what better way to spread the cheer than putting up a holiday-themed notice on your site? You might be going on vacati…

How To Create Your Own WordPress Shortcodes

Shortcodes are a very powerful feature of WordPress. In essence a shortcode is a placeholder for some other content. A well-known shortcode is the bui…

How to Install Windows on Your Mac (When All Else Fails)

I have a 2011 iMac and I’ve installed Windows on it successfully before. The process was extremely straightforward. I popped in my Windows disk and …

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (December 2014)

Editor’s note: We’ve come to the end of another year. This final month of 2014, we’re looking at a round of resources by Daniel Pataki. A develo…

A Look Into: Firefox Developer Edition

After a brief preview, Mozilla has officially launched Firefox Developer Edition, a browser tailored specifically for web developers. Though not offic…