Exporting and Importing Your Emails Via Horde Web-based Email Client
If you want to change your web hosting server and if you are among those people that use Horde to manage emails by storing them into different folders then you might need to transfer those folders over to your new hosting environment before you proceed to the server migration.
What you need to do first is to download every single folder in MBOX format and then create each folder in the new Horde environment and after that import each downloaded file to its corresponding folder in the new server. Below are the steps you should take to transfer your folders over to the new hosting server:
Exporting folders
- Login to the Horde with your email as the username and its password
- Navigate to “Mail” and then click on the “Folders” icon from the top bar
- Then select the folder you want to export (one folder each time) and from the “Choose action” drop-down menu click on download folders
- Then a window will pop up asking you to click on the OK to download that folder in a MBOX file format
Importing folders
- Login to the Horde in you new server environment click on “Mail” and then click on the “Folders” icon from the top menu icon bar
- From drop-down “Choose action” menu click on create folder and in the small window that pops up enter the name of your folder you want to import and finally click on OK
- Then checkbox the new created folder and this time click on import messages from the “Choose action” drop-down menu
- And navigate to the location where the MBOX file has been stored while you were exporting folders
And that’s it
Different Methods of Redirection
There is one main reason you might decide to redirect a page to another one and that is moving the location of files or changing the URLs. On the other hand there are 3 major methods for setting up a redirection which include 301 (permanent), 302 (temporary) and Meta redirect.
301 redirect: is the server side, permanent and search engine friendly redirection.
302 redirect: is used for temporary redirection. This means although the requested page now resides under a different URL but the preferred address to be used in the future is the original one (source one). This means when a URL returns a 302 redirect the users are asked to continue using the source URL as the redirect is temporary and could be modified in future.
Meta redirect: not only is not a SE friendly redirect but also is considered as a spam technique and might cause ranking penalty. For this reason it should only be used when you don’t have any server access.
In case of Meta redirect, search engines sometimes tend to index the URL of the original page with the content of the target page (it seems this happens when the original page has a higher page rank than that of the target one.
Apparently zero delayed Meta redirect is somehow considered as a 301 redirect by some major search engines.
Web Inspectors
Web Inspector has made web development and debugging easier by allowing web developer to simply browse the live DOM structure of a web page in a collapsible compact structure user-friendly interface.
Different web inspectors have different features but most of them have some main common features and that are as follow:
- highlighting the node on the page while it is being selected in the DOM hierarchy.
- By clicking a node you can dig deep into the DOM hierarchy which is perfect for debugging web pages with nested structures.
- All the CSS rules applied to a selected node can be viewed under the “style pane” with the overridden properties crossed out. This live easy access to CSS styles is perfect for fixing cross-browser issues.
Latest versions of most of the major browsers have their own built-in web inspector tools. In most cases you can simply open up the web inspector by right clicking on a web page and then selecting “Inspect element” this is true for “Google Chrome” and “Opera”.
For Firefox you need to install the firebug add-on then you will be able to right click on a web page and select Inspect element.
For Safari you have to first activate the web inspector feature by going to “preferences” and then “advanced section” and check the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” checkbox now by right clicking on a web page you can click on “Inspect element” to open up Web inspector.
In case of IE you can access the internet explorer built-in web inspector by selecting the “developer tools” under the IE “Tools” menu.
Goodbye to Web Directories
For a couple of years Web directories played a crucial role in the field of search engine optimization for building high quality back-links or even to gain some direct traffic.
A web directory is defined as a Web site containing list of other Websites assorted under different categories and subcategories. Web directories were intended to send traffic/visitors to the websites at the very beginning but later on they were mostly used to build back-links rather than sending direct traffic.
The first thing about directory Web sites is that Google treats them the same as any other web site. So if you submit your Web site to a high page rank good quality web directory then the back-link is going to be helpful for your website other way around a low page rank poor quality directory might not be useful or even might damage your Web site ranking on Google and other important Search Engines.
A web directory might come in different types according to their categories, their listing plan and the way they are maintained. Most of the general and some of the niche directories provide all the 3 below listing options.
Base on their categories type
1- All-inclusive directories: General directories that have all sort of typical categories.
2- Specific directories: niche directories that have just technical categories related to their niche area.
Base on the way they are maintained
1- Human-edited directories: Have a strict and hard-line submission policy and the submitted Web sites are reviewed by the human editors before being included. For this reason the Human-Edited Web directories are of a higher quality.
2- Non human edited directories: Have a less strict submission policy and don’t have a human editorial revision and have less control over their listings.
Base on their listing plan
1- Free listing: Is free of charge, inclusion is not guaranteed and it might take long time for being included (even up to 6 months or one year)
2- Featured link or paid listing: require money for being included. Most of the time inclusion is guaranteed and support fast inclusion (24 or less and up to a week) your link would be placed on top of the free listings and often in a highlighted eye-catching way.
3- Reciprocal link: they require you to link back to their website in order to be included.
