Here is the first installment of our top 10 links for the week.  Every week, we will be picking ten links we see as being very useful and important to the web development/business crowd.  This list covers both technical articles for developers and higher level business ones.

10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks for Wordpress - Smashingmagazine
Great tips for any user of wordpress that relies on RSS for syndicating content.  Most of these tips show you how to gain more control over your RSS feeds.
5 good programming habits in PHP
General rules of …

At work the other day, I was forwarded an email with a co-worker asking for my thoughts to a question. The question went along the lines of: “How many emails in a defined time period should we be sending to our customers? How many emails is too many?” My answer? One!

A quiet shift is happening in the world of web design and development - one that has been in the works for a few years, but is now starting to come to fruition: the mobile world is mobilizing to point a whole lot of eyes onto our websites. Our canvas may be shrinking, but the opportunities will continue to grow. Here’s what’s happening in the mobile world that will affect you as a web professional, and what you can do to prepare for the change.

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No matter how small or trivial you may think your project is, you will always benefit from doing at least a little usability testing. Here are five reasons why.

A couple weeks ago we took a look at some of the first steps to take when selecting an open source publishing platform. The next step we’re going to cover will touch on design. What should you consider when it comes to designing a new look and feel for your open source tool?

One of your worst nightmares as a web designer is getting caught up in a conversation where you’re trying to defend a design decision, and what you’re battling isn’t a rationed and informed perspective based on…

In the last post on selecting an open source publishing platform we offered a pretty simple tip to help you get started: take a look at the source code of other sites in your field and see what tools they’re using. Once you’ve figured that part out, the next step is to determine whether you have what it takes to roll out an installation of the tool yourself. What extra plugins or modules are required for the full feature-set you’re looking for? How active is the community in using those …

Over the last few years, open source web applications have gained real traction on the web. From individuals to small businesses, non-profit organizations to public institutions and large corporate agencies, all across the board a growing number of websites are using open source technologies to turn the gears.
But what works for one, won’t work for all, and quite often the sucess of your site may depend on that very first decision you make in selecting one tool over another. So how do you choose which tool(s) to use?

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