{actually, as a side note, having just typed the title, the thought comes to mind that the English language, without punctuation, is a nefarious beast. because at this point, you don’t know if that statement is an imperative, or one of those second-person rhetoricals. for the record, it’s one of those second-person rhetoricals. i’m sure Bing or Morse would be able to supply the proper label to ‘second-person’ rhetorical, but i don’t even know if they read this blog, and i’ve been horrendously crappy about posting on otherwhirled.com lately. sigh.}

but yeah, anyway, you just never know how people are going to take things. i’ve had some trouble uploading files to my business site, which trouble came somewhat ironically (and mostly unrelatedly) in the midst of getting synthaetica.com launched. and since i’m done with getting synthaetica.com up and running, it was time to refocus my development efforts on the new version of the business website. out of convenience, i had my ISP point my old domain name shadowart.com at this new developmental site, and as a result, since i’ve had some trouble uploading files to shadowmoon.com, i went ahead and used shadowart.com for the online proofs of a couple of recent engagement sessions.

since shadowart.com is in development, i have it “invisible” to search engines, and the only people who know about it are those whom i’ve told (which i guess now includes you, who incidentally constitute the vast majority of “those whom i’ve told”) about it, the clients whose proof sites are up there, and a couple of wordpress developers whom i’ve asked for some assistance on beefing up some plugins so that the site could handle the selection of images for purchase—something we’ve been needing to have embedded in our business site for about a decade now.

so in the meantime, i’m building up the site, adding page, tweaking the site header image and other little things with the template, and realize that the site has begun to become rather slow for no apparent reason. out of curiosity, i go look at the stats, and was shocked to discover that there were (at the time) about 250 visits on one particular client’s proof site (over 300 now) .

now, i really don’t know (read,”bother to look”) how many people normally come look at an engagement proof site, but since the site is invisible and closed, it was obvious that those visits were by no means random. so, i called the client to ask how many people she had shared the site with, and it turns out that the number of visits is roughly equatable to the number of people she and her fiancé have shared the site with. go figure. the other engagement proof site on there, for what it’s worth, has totaled 24 visits. mine, of course, are not counted.

i have a suspicion that the latter number is the more expected one.

anyway, like i said, you just never know how some people are going to take things. i guess it means i did i good job?

maybe.

but since it beats the shit out of daily visits to my more established blogs, it does make you think {although by “you”, i probably just mean “me”. what a silly language we have….}