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 Create a Blog Using Jekyll: A Guide for Beginners

Originally just a blogging platform, WordPress has evolved into a fully featured CMS. With WordPress, you can create nearly any type of website, from …

How to Use Accounting.js for Effective Number Formatting

Learn how to use jQuery Accounting.js to format numbers, currencies, and dates in your web applications for a professional and polished look.

Quickly Inserting File Paths in Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a notably minimalist code editor. It lacks a traditional GUI, with even the settings managed via text. This minimalist approach sharpe…

Using Kit Language in Windows and Linux

In the previous post, we have discussed about Kit, a very simple HTML templating language. If you had been following this, you should find that the GU…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (April 2014)

As we enter the second quarter of 2014, we’re excited to share another collection of valuable resources. This month’s highlights include framework…

Optimize Web Development with Symbolic Links and Apache Alias

Today, many web developers work remotely. We have access to numerous collaboration tools and file-sharing applications like Dropbox. However, a common…

How to Add CSS3 Border Radius Support in IE8 and Earlier Versions

CSS3 allows us to create rounded corners using the border-radius property. However, this feature is not supported in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and ear…

Building Static Sites with Kit and LESS – Part I

In this post, we are going to walk you through a project. In the project, we will create a static HTML website, and we will be using Kit Language for …

Koala App: A Cross-platform App for Modern Web Development

In the days of Netscape and Internet Explorer 6, most web developers only wrote web documents in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Today, we have plent…

A Look Into: Internet Explorer 11 DevTools

The Internet Explorer in-browser Developer Tools (IE DevTools) has long been lacking several critical functionalities for debugging, making it nearly …

5 Reasons Why I Don’t Install WordPress Plugins

… well not ALL WordPress plugins, just the bad ones. Like every other tool out there, there are some plugins that work for you, e.g. for creating co…