In order to link through to an RSS feed of your article postings, just link to:

 yourwebsite.ext/wp/feeds/

Where yourwebsites.ext/wp/ is the path to your wordpress installation.

The RSS code seems to work nicely in as much as it filters per category you are currently in. Or put another way, depending on which category you are view, the RSS feed will show the current dataset (categories).

One point with the default WP RSS feed, it seems to default to the last 10 postings, somthing which would need to be looked at for SEO.

Just add the /feeds/ folder to the end of your site URL and hey presto you have your feed!

You can see the nCoded RSS Feed for this category, as a demo to how default WP feeds look and work.

In summary the points raised were:

1. Start with a simple problem (during analsis)

2. Create prototypes as early as possible.

3. Get people on the network to work with the product prototype rapidly and often.

4. Release early and release often.

5. Manage your software development and operations to real numbers that matter.

6. Gather usage data from your users and input it back into product design as often as possible.

7. Put off irreversible architecture and product design decisions as long as possible.

8. Choose the technologies later and think carefully about what your product will do first.

9. When you do select technologies, consider current skill sets and staff availability.

10. Balance programmer productivity with operational costs.

11. Variability in the productivity amongst programmers and development platforms each varies by an order of magnitude.

12. Plan for testing to be a larger part of software development process than non-Web applications.

13. Move beyond traditional application hosting.

14. Build upon an Open Source foundation.

15. Consider mobile users as important as your regular browser customers.

16. Search is the new navigation, make it easy to use in your application.

17. Whenever users can provide data to your product, enable them.

18. Offer an open API so that your Web application can be extended by partners around the world.

19. Make sure your product can be spread around the Web by users, provide widgets, badges, and gadgets.

20. Create features to make the product distribute virally.

21. The link is the fundamental unit of thought on the Web, therefore richly link-enable your applications.

22. Create an online user community for your product and nurture it.

23. Offer a up-to-date, clean, compelling application design.

24. Load-time and responsiveness matter, measure and optimize for them on a regular basis.

25. User experience should follow a “complexity gradient.”

26. Monetize every page view.

27. Users’ data belongs to them, not you.

28. Go to the user, don’t only make them come to you.

29. SEO is as important as ever, so design for it.

30. Know thy popular Web standards and use them.

31. Understand and apply Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA).

32. Online products that build upon enterprise systems should use open SOA principles.

33. Strategically use feeds and syndication to enable deep content distribution.

34. Build on the shoulders of giants; don’t recreate what you can source from elsewhere.

35. Register the user as soon as possible.

36. Explicitly enable your users to co-develop the product.

37. Provide the legal and collaborative foundations for others to build on your data and platform.

38. Design your product to build a strong network effect.

39. Know your Web 2.0 design patterns and business models.

40. Integrate a coherent social experience into your product.

41. Understand your business model and use it to drive your product design.

42. Embrace emergent development methods.

43. It’s all about usability, usability, and usability.

44. Security isn’t an afterthought.

45. Stress test regularly and before releases.

46. Backup and disaster recovery, know your plan.

47. Good Web products understand that there is more than the Web.

48. Look for emerging areas on the edge of the Web.

49. Plan to evolve over time, for a long time.

50. Continually improve yourself and your Web 2.0 strategies.

Elgg, started in 2004, is an open source social engine which powers all kinds of social environments - from education and business to martial arts and rugby. If you are looking for a professional social intranet or want to run a site for your organisation, Elgg is a great choice.

You can View and Download the Nature Open website design, or preview more designs from this author, or view openwebdesign.org (resource promoter).

The Nature open website design is a CMS and Blog type design with a calendar and latest news blocks on the left hand side. It has been nicely styled (CSS lists, links, etc) also with professional looking yellow orange glossy block and content titles.

You can download the Florist Open website design, or preview more designs from this author, or view openwebdesign.org (resource promoter).

The Metamorph Florist open website design is a CMS and Blog type design with a calendar and latest news blocks on the left hand side. It has been nicely styled (CSS lists, links, etc) also with a creative ‘chic’ looking header hopefully with the FW/PS PNG file!

You can download the SpringFlowers Open website design, or preview more designs from this author, or view openwebdesign.org (resource promoter).

The SpringFlowers open website design is a CMS and Blog type design with a calendar and latest news blocks on the left hand side. It has been nicely styled (CSS lists, links, etc) also with professional looking yellow orange glossy block and content titles.

Here is Feedsessive, a free, simple and elegant RSS icon pack for you to use however you wish, in either personal or professional projects, with no restriction

An excellent collection of nice and professional icons in many different colours including some black and white high contrast versions. They are available in key professional formats including EPF, PDF, and PNG image file formats.

http://blogsessive.com/blogging-tools/feedsessive-free-rss-icon-pack/

 http://blogsessive.com/blogging-tools/wp-plugin-latest-posts-by-category-archive/

Introduction:

The first thing that you need to establish is which sidebar you want to edit; This isn’t as clear as it could be as it is up the theme designer to setup which sidebars are used.

For this example we will assume you have 3 side bars, named sidebar.php, sidebar1.php and sidebar2.php - sidebar has full width, sidebar1 is half sized and is formatted to the left hand side, and sidebar2 is formatted to the right hand side. 

To get a clearer idea of this, just take a look at the sidebars used on this website, as these follow this convention.

Getting started:

For this tutorial we will just change one sidebar, but the procedure can be used on any sidebar - in this case we will be editing side1.php - which is the 1/2 formatted left hand side sidebar.

*Normally (see note above about theme designers choice of how to implement and position sidebars) the following code will be used to create a ‘menu’ block which displays ALL the categories you have, including both root and sub categories.

<?php //wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=0&title_li=<h2>Article Categories</h2>'); ?>
<?php //endif; ?>

Explanation:

As you can see this functionality is achieved by calling the WP API function wp_list_categories(), passing it 3 argument parameters. The first one sets how the returned categories are ordered, the second sets if you want a count to be displayed (0=false, 1=true), with the third set how you want the title to display.

Required design:

Now if you consider what we require, instead of just one category listing with ALL categories - instead what we require is one ‘menu block’ per category, name as the root or parent category with all the sub categories below.

Implementation:

The code below implements this functionality via calling the same function above multiple times, but in each case limiting the sub categories being returned (as well as excluding the display of the root or parent category).

<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=0&use_desc_for_title=0&child_of=6&title_li=<h2>Online Tutorials</h2>'); ?>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=0&use_desc_for_title=0&child_of=3&title_li=<h2>Open Web Designs</h2>'); ?>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=0&use_desc_for_title=0&child_of=27&title_li=<h2>Open Software</h2>'); ?>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=0&use_desc_for_title=0&child_of=4&title_li=<h2>Modules Addons</h2>'); ?>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=0&use_desc_for_title=0&child_of=5&title_li=<h2>Themes Templates</h2>'); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

So if you need to split you master categories into ‘menu blocks’ displaying each category and it sub categories - then this is how to do it! simple huh!?

However, Google has put together a very useful desktop application (built with .net) that allows you to drag and drop files straight into you Google docs account; useful huh?

As a sample application it also gives you full access to the source code so that you can modify it and rebuild the application.

You read more about this application as well as download the sourcecode and application from here:

 http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86805&topic=12022