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Webmaster Articles Blog Carnival Aug 2007 Edition

Welcome! We have another truckload of webmaster articles for you today. If you have a blog post of interest for our next edition, feel free to submit it. If you’re interested in hosting an edition on your blog, feel free to let us know (a comment is fine).
First, the Miscellaneous:

adam presents Improving the conversion rate [...]

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“Starting a Great Blog” Tutorial Completed

Webmaster-Source’s Starting a Great Blog (with Wordpress) tutorial is now complete. The twelve-part series walks you through starting a blog. The sections are as follows:

Domains and Hosting
Installing Wordpress
Configuring Wordpress
Themes
Posting
Spreading the Word
Monetization
Stat Tracking
Wordpress Plugins
Social Bookmarking
Conclusion

That’s a lot of reading, isn’t it? Take a look if you’re interested in starting a blog. Stand out from the Blogger [...]

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From the Network...



Google Acquiring Feedburner

Google just bought Feedburner! Is that surprising? It’s not to me (well, not too much anyway). Think of it this way:

 Feedburner = RSS “re-hosting”, feed stats, and feed ads
 Google = Web site stats, website ads

So, you combine the two.
I believe the feed stats will eventually be integrated with Google Analytics, the ads with [...]

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CSS Slicing Guide

Hey, I saw a useful thing on Digg today (unbelievable, I know)! CSS Slicing Guide, a website that teaches how to use Photoshop (or other programs) to slice a layout into working CSS code instead of tables.
As you may have noticed, there are tons of sites that still use tables to line up images into [...]

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