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

How to (Automatically) Backup Your Website into Dropbox

As website owners, one of the important things you should do is to regularly backup the website. Some web hosting providers may already have the backu…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2020)

As we enter the second half of 2020, the web development landscape continues to evolve at an exciting pace. This month’s collection showcases some r…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (June 2020)

As we navigate through these challenging times, the web development community continues to innovate and create amazing tools to help us build better w…

10+ Best Free JavaScript Lightbox Libraries

Lightbox is one popular way to overlay images on the web. When you click on an image, the Lightbox pops up with some form of animation and dims the ba…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (May 2020)

If you’re a web designer or developer and want to make the most of your spare time, take a look at this round of Fresh Resources series. In this lis…

10 Best Free macOS Apps For Developers

For web developers, applications are important factors to better productivity; without having the right ones, developing a single website could take u…

How to Build A Fully Customized WordPress Login Page

Many of you, I believe, are familiar with the WordPress login page at wp-login.php. It looks nice, and works fine. But when it comes to creating a web…

HTML5 <article> and <section> Elements

HTML5 comes with a bunch of new elements with more to be recommended in the future. However, there are some elements that might be a little confusing …

How to Upgrade PHP to Latest Version

PHP7.4 has been released with a handful of new features — like the arrow function array_map(fn (Foo $foo) => $foo->id, $foo), typed properties…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (April 2020)

Despite the doom and gloom due to the COVID-19 virus spread, it’s not stopping us from sharing fresh resources and tools with our fellow web develop…

How to Play Animated GIFs onClick

The Animated GIF is a popular way to visualize a design concept (here’s an example of how we did it for the post text effects created with CSS) or s…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2020)

It’s time again for us to share fresh resources with our fellow web developers. In this round, we have some great new tools from big names in the te…