Counter Knowledge Base

Counter

How do I setup a counter?

There are different types of counters you can setup on any of your web pages. Below are a few examples. To create the counter image, you need to do the following two things. Decide what type of counter you would like to use, and place the corresponding code in your web page (example code is under 'HTML Code' below).

You can place this code in your HTML page by using the File Manager in the control panel to edit your pages.

Note: Input your site specific data in place of YourDomain.com-PageName.html in the HTML tag below. Please be sure not to use strange characters like '/' in the name of your data file.

Counter Examples:

How do I change the appearance of my counter?

1. CHANGE THE DIGIT STYLE

We have five (5) different styles of digits installed on our server. You can change the style of your counter by simply adding dd=(A,B,C,D,or E) to the img tag.
For example:

There are 5 different styles installed the server:

2. CHANGE THE BORDER OF THE COUNTER

You can change the width of the border on your counter by adding ft=X (where X is the number of pixels).
For example:

3. WHAT IF I WANT TO USE MORE THAN ONE COUNTER?

No problem, all you need to do is simply change the data file (df) to yourdomain.com-whatever. Make sure you include your domain name or sub-directory name in the name of the data file. Just be sure not to use strange characters like '/' in the name of your data file.

More Information on this counter located here.

Available counter in your control panel

This is for Eastern Time. Notice where it says GMT-0400 that tells it to look at the GMT time and subtract 4 hours. So if you are on Central Time it would need to be GMT-0500 and so on across the country.

Central Time:

Q: Why doesn't the counter count off? I've changed the number to reflect 128. The number on the counter doesn't change when I go to my web site.

A: The counters in our system are really meant to count unique visitors, so it only counts you about once every 30 minutes. If you go in and then go in again, it will only count you once

Q: Why doesn't my counter match what my site statistics says?

A: That's because :) your counter is only counting the page that it's on. Your site statistics is counting every page in your web site.

How do I put a counter on my web page?
A: You'll need to input the counter html code directly into the html source of your index.html page, or other page where you want to add a counter.

Go to the Admin Suite/File Manager/domain name-www folder, find the file you want to add a counter to, then click on it's link. This will bring up the File : /home/domain name/www/index.htm page where you will see a text box where you can edit the html code for that page.

Scroll down to the bottom of this html source file, place your cursor in front of the /body and return, then go up to that blank line you just made (when you clicked on return) and paste the html code for the counter there. This will put the counter at the very bottom of your page. When you are done click on the Save File button below the html/text box, go out to your site, hit your browsers reload/refresh button and the counter should show up.

If you want the counter to be anywhere other than the bottom, you'll have to locate the spot within the html code and paste the counter code in.

What is the source code for the counter?
img src="http:/www.yourdomain.com/cgi-sys/Count.cgi?df=yourdomain.com-test.htm"

* If your domain name has a dash in it, the counter in our control panel probably won't work for you because of the way it calls the counter - it uses a dash in the script after the extensions (i.e. yourdomainname.com-test.htm

What you might try though is using your IP address instead and see if that works.

Front Page Users

There is a counter that comes with Front Page. If you can't get the Front Page counter to work just by using their directions. You can use this code:

<font size="1" face="Arial Narrow"><img src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=index.html|Image=3" alt="Hit Counter">
</font>

To reset this counter, just right click on the hit counter, click on front page components, then set the counter and the number of digits. You can change the style of the counter from there also.