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 Get User Location with HTML5 Geolocation API

In many cases, obtaining user location would be extremely useful to establish better user experience, for example: E-commerce sites can immediately pr…

Anchor CMS Blogging Platform (Review)

Publishing online is easy. Almost anyone can do it, even without paying a cent, thanks to numerous CMS that are available for FREE, I’m sure you are…

How to Customize WordPress Editor Styles

WordPress is updated regularly, about 2 or 3 times a year. In each of its new release, it introduces either some new feature additions or some improve…

A look into: Foundation 4 Responsive Framework

ZURB has recently released a new version of their popular responsive framework, Foundation. In this version, they’ve made some drastic changes, elim…

Understanding Retina Displays and Media Queries

Apple revolutionized screen quality with its Retina display. This technology offers incredibly clear, vibrant, and detailed images. However, it also p…

Guide to WordPress Development With Microsoft WebMatrix

We have previously talked about web development with Microsoft WebMatrix. In today’s post, we are going to discuss WordPress development using WebMa…

How to Retrieve and Display Battery Status with HTML5

Apart from introducing new elements, the people behind web standard, W3C, also introduced a set of JavaScript APIs that allow developers to communicat…

A Look Into: WebMatrix for Front-End Development

There are plenty of web development applications for Windows system, such as Notepad++, Netbeans, Eclipse, Komodo, Aptana etc. These applications are …

Showcase of Long Shadow Icon Design

Flat design has been a tremendously hot topic for the last couple of months, and we have also discussed it several times in our previous posts. And if…

Easy Color Scheme Generation with Adobe Kuler for iOS

When designing, be it on the Web, for an app, or in a print product, we have to decide what colors to use on the design. There are a whole bunch of to…

Web Design: Hide / Show Notification Bar With CSS3

Inspired by one of our readers comment from our previous, we are going to show you how to create a notification bar with a control button in this tuto…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2013)

Ah yes, the regular monthly roundup is back. In this round, we have another ten different tools, apps, and services to help designers and developers. …