Derek Scruggs

I recently installed phpBB on HappyMudan.com, a new site my wife and I launched last week. I like phpBB, but it’s not the most search engine friendly bulletin board. I did a little Googling and found this site, which has a few optimization tips and which I highly recommend.
However, one thing it doesn’t include […]

Leo Notenboom recently turned me on to WebDrive, and I love love love it. In a nutshell, it allows you to mount an FTP site as a hard drive, so your applications treat it just like any other hard drive. It’s very handy when editing HTML. Just open the file from the remote computer, edit […]

My wife Dong, who runs HappyMudan, is from China. I’ve always been interested in travelling to and understanding other cultures, so she’s indulged my interest in spades just by answering my stupid questions (”Do they have Christmas in China? What’s a typical Chinese breakfast? Are there pizza parlors in China?”)
Anyway, one shared interest we have […]

WordPress is a great blogging tool, no doubt about it. (It powers this blog.) What you may not know is that it has some great features for search engine optimization (aka SEO). Here are a few tips on getting the most out of WordPress for SEO.
Optimize the Template
As it happens, the default WordPress template […]