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How To Add a Counter to Your Home Page

Placing A Counter On Your Page.

Adding a counter to your home page is really simple. It allows you to track how many people have gazed upon you beauty.

Let's assume that your page is called default.htm and that's where you want to show your counter. Then all you need to do, somewhere on your page, is enter the following line of HTML code:

<img src="/cgi-bin/counter.exe?link=<yourURLname>&style=odometer" border=0>

Of course you would replace the <yourURLname> with your URL's name. This will produce a counter that looks like the traditional "odometer" counter found on most web pages. It looks like this:

There is one thing that you need to be sure of first. That is that the portion after the link= matches your URL name. In the example above I assumed your URL was "stef". The important thing to remember is that each URL has it's own counter. If you happen to have a name exactly like someone else's then you two will share the same counter!

So You Want To Get Fancy?

You might have noticed the part of this code that said style=odometer, and wondered, "Hmmm, I wonder what other styles there are?" Well, wonder no longer:

  • beach
  • chalk
  • curly
  • cyan
  • eggs
  • electric
  • fancy
  • frozen
  • halloween
  • handwriting
  • lcd
  • led
  • neat
  • noisy
  • odometer
  • oldstyle
  • orange
  • red
  • scoreboard
  • sf
  • speckled
  • timex
  • So, that's all there is to placing a counter on your TG Forum Home Page. As always, if you have any questions just eMail stef@tgforum.com