Tranferring a domain away from website.ws to another registrar can be a huge pain. But if you are tired of paying $10 a month for your domain then these are the steps for transferring a domain from GDI:

1. First you need to get an authorization code from GDI, there is no way to instantly access this code, you need to send a message to GDI support.  To Contact GDI support, login to your website.ws account, find the “Request Support” link in the left navigation, click on the category “Domains”, then scroll to the bottom of the page and find the link to “Contact Support”
   
2. Ask GDI support to send you the “Transfer Authorization Code” for your domain. Within a few hours (or days….) a GDI support rep should email you a long authorization code.
3. Now you can go to your new registrar of choice.  (I use Unlimited Hosting by Spatical Company for all of my domain and hosting needs).  When you start the transfer on the new registrar they will ask for the authorization code you received from GDI.
4. Next the new registrar will send an approval email as shown on the contact details of the domain.  At least in my case, this was not my email address but a website.ws email address, something like othertld_support@website.ws  If you don’t receive an email from your new registrar to confirm the domain transfer, then the same may be the case for you.
5. Once again contact GDI support, this time tell them an email has been sent to them for the approval of a domain transfer.  Ask them to forward the email they received to you so you can click the link to approve the domain transfer.

Good Luck!

A couple of interesting sites to record here as an archived bookmark
CMS systems:
Website Baker
Big Ace

And some free for non-commercial use icons:
Icons

Have you been looking for ways to get more twitter followers?  Here I will give my findings on one website touting the name of followers itself in a tricky way:  http://followe.rs

Followers (followe.rs) Stats:

• A search on digg reveals that it has actually been dug 427 times as of today, but most users just digg their own affiliate link, so the diggs are probably not getting a lot of attention, since no one digg is getting any significant number hits.
• A twitter search on topsy shows that links to followe.rs have been tweeted 7,649 times.  With the automated tweets that followe.rs sends out each day, that will continue to increase, but it isn’t surprising to see that the top results for followe.rs on topsy appear to be unique tweets that users have written themselves.

For the history, 82 days ago sitelogr reported these numbers:

World Rank:	#38,878
Estimate Value:	$38,507 USD
Estimate Income Per Day:	$53 USD
Estimate Visits Per Day	17,583
Hosting Country:	United States
Website IP:	204.51.247.83
Alexa Rank:	39,806
Google Pagerank:
Google Index:	17 links
Yahoo Index:	15 links

As of today Jan 17, 2010 it reported slightly different results.  It appears the overall traffic to followers (followe.rs) is has decreased in the past few months, which is reflected in the lower Alexa rank.  The Google pagerank and links indexed in Google and Yahoo have both increased.

World Rank:	#68,504
Estimate Value:	$27,060 USD
Estimate Income Per Day:	$37 USD
Estimate Visits Per Day	12,356
Hosting Country:	United States
Website IP:	204.51.247.83
Alexa Rank:	69,224
Google Pagerank:
Google Index:	29 links show google links
Yahoo Index:	22 links show yahoo links

Followers (followe.rs) Reviews:

• Syed gave it a thumbs up on his blog, all though most of his content is just taken from the followe.rs website.
• A user on the social media group forum reported having great success with followe.rs, after a few days using the system he was already showing a potential earnings of $380.  Dwayne’s results are probably not “normal” results for affiliate commissions, but most users agree that it does definitely get you more followers.
• Terrie recommends upgrading to Pro if you are serious about making money with followers.
• Josh shared his quick thoughts on followe.rs.
• Dave gave his results, and Rob also shared his opinion on his blog.
• I saved the best for last, imreportcard has done a great job of only providing useful reviews and comments. The review for followe.rs is the most thorough and informational that I found.

Followers (followe.rs) on social media websites:

• One user posted a sort of sales/info video on metacafe.
• Youtube is full of videos ripped from the followe.rs website and posted be various users. But particularly interesting is the one by krishloop who has managed to drive 6,226 views to his video
• Another user created their own facebook group for followe.rs and have been able to get an incredible 37 fans!

That is everything I could find (that had at least a little bit of worth showing).

Current expired domains with traffic. Domains to buy now: http://tr.im/buynow

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On some client work for a client I have been helping them turn this animation into an animated gif from it’s flash form.  To get the smooth animation in Flash we first turned the fps (frames per second) up to 31, then I exported each frame by exporting the movie as a jpeg sequence.  Then I also exported the animated gif from flash, (but didn’t get the a very clean picture). So I replaced each frame in the animated gif with the exported jpeg frame, then customized the palate to really keep clean the important pieces.  Also, Fireworks seems to do a much better job of dithering the flat image then Flash can do with all the layer information it uses.

I have added a new website to my list of my Steven Hansen personal online presence: Steven Hansen, Pro. I have added it as a sort of resume.  I hope to add any of my works online or offline to the site.  It has been sort of a debate of whether to publish those sorts of things under the company name or myself.  In the end I will probably do some of both.  Adding it to my personal site gives me a good spot to send possible employers, while adding it to the company site gives it a better flavor for potential clients.

afraid.org – FREE dns

and

django – python website framework

jquery plugin I want to try soon – http://media.brianbeck.com/shared/javascript/jquery-ahover/demo/demo.html

and another jquery form validator – http://shugartweb.com/jquery/form

Also, I received an email today that GoDaddy is going to be doing a 6.99 promotion for all .com domains this month of August 2008 the coupon code is: gdp0804b Click here to go to the World’s Largest Registrar – GoDaddy.com

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