Franxfictions’ 100,000th pageview
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A celebration is in order
The 100,000th page view was reached between Dec 11th and 12th
My fiction and blog webpage https://www.franxfiction.com with all of its subpages was created by Melissa Thomas-Baum in 2012.
Today it draws visitors from Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cech Republic, China, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, USA and Zimbabwe.
On December 12, 2025, I celebrated the 100,000th page view, by an anonymous woman or man from one of these countries.
Melissa’s formative time as scientific illustrator, just before she joined my Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) lab in 2010, was as intern with The Scientific American. For five years we had the benefit of her esthetic judgments in drafting and finalizing scientific illustrations, many related to the ribosome. Because of the complexity of the ribosome structure and the process of translation, I considered paramount the consistency in the presentation of the multitude of ribosome complexes in our scientific articles. In this she excelled as a quick glance at the papers listed on the Frank Lab website which she also redesigned on the WordPress platform.
She set up franxfiction.com on the same platform as well – separately from her job responsibilities with the group – as a personal website for my blogs and literary fiction content.
I was lucky to secure her continued support of both websites after she left and became independent as founder and owner of Buckyball Design, LLC.
From: Hashem, Y., des Georges, A., Dhote, V., Langlois, R., Liao, H.Y., Grassucci, R.A., Pestova, T.V., Hellen, C.U., and Frank, J. (2013). Hepatitis-C-virus-like internal ribosome entry sites displace eIF3 to gain access to the 40S subunit. Nature 503, 539-543.
As one of the many users of WordPress I’m able to generate free daily reports on the statistics of access. What follows is a snapshot of the movements during the 30 days prior to December 12.
total page views 100,059 on December 12
daily page views during the 30 days before December 12. Highest peak is 67
pages accessed during that period
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