Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Function Over Form?

To be frank (you’ve no doubt noticed it yourself, if you visited my About the Author space), FF.net is a pretty butt-ugly site. Nonetheless, I found much more success with my writing there than I did at Blogger.com. It keeps almost anal-retentive stats of each piece written. (None of these stats are viewable by anyone but the author, with the exception of reviews which can be read by anyone.) For instance, here is the breakdown of everything I’ve written, as of 8 pm HST, December 11, 2007:


I can even see the breakdown of hits and reviews by chapter of each individual title I’ve published. In the case of A Shower of Kisses, my most popular work to date by raw hit total, the breakdown by chapter looks like this:

Finally, there’s the author’s stats page, which keeps track of who has placed you on their Favorite Author list, as well as how many times your About page has been accessed:

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