I had some private messages asking for clarification, so let me explain what the database is.
I do rec pages here on my site. (they are under Other Goodies). Have since I started this site. Since then, they consistently have been on my top tens since then. One is always there. Often True Blood and Twilight, but hey, they have the most stories and is a big part of what I write.
To make it easier to describe, here is a screenshot of what they look like now:
Yes, they were copied originally from my favorites on FanFiction.net. Luckily however I did it, (and I do think I copied directly from one to the other!) the links came with it. Over time, some people moved, and we updated the links to them.
We go through and check the links, but it is harder than you think to update these.
FanFiction does not have a real organization for you to find the latest stories you added. They do it by update, or other choices. So we were going one by one, on my favorites, to try to figure out what to add. Add to that I am infamous for going back through a fandom and finding old completed stories to add as favorites, well you can see the problem. It was literally line by line check. Not something that was a good idea. Not with everyone wanting story updates and so forth.
After last year’s You Want Blood Awards, I made a database that I slowly been adding fandoms to it. I have not really added anything, but a few websites and some blogs I know have written things in Dr. Who and so forth. I was testing it for the big ones. I ran it by the impossible to ever replace 4Padfoot, and she cheered since it comes out in a spreadsheet version.
Here is a brief look at the information I am collecting (in the database itself). It is shortened so I can fill in the blanks as I go without having to move the screen around:
There are additional fields, but they are for other sites, such as Dokuga and so on. There is a place for me to mark if I reviewed the story yet, as well as a place for notes. I am not caring about reviews, since I don’t care about them when I read a story, nor about the views. This is pure, this is what I like, and recommend to others to read. To be truthful, the views and review numbers change all the time and there is no way I want to try to keep up with that. And some are spread over different sites and so forth.
I use the descriptions I find, and that box after the link is for 4Padfoot and I, in case the story disappears from the internet, we can click that check mark off and remove it from the lists. Completion dates and so forth is for the You Want Blood Awards and for me later when I do the Crossovers. It is also to let someone know if a series is still active.
I am not posting full stories (I use up enough of my own free space without adding more!!!!) and am only wanting to share the stories I love with others.
For the Crossover site I am doing, this database will also hold the stories on it. No more information, no less. Well, they get pictures if they ask nicely.
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask me.
