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trundlebush
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Hello,
If you read any of my posts before you'll know I'm a newbie to web-building using adobe go-live 6. Anyway my question today is; I want to put a web counter on my website so I can tell how many (if any) visit my site. Where would I get a counter and how would I add it? Do I need to know html? (I know almost none) Cheers,
- Dr T
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putasolutions
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It would certainly help a little to know some HTML, simply to be able to place it in the correct location on your page
Microsoft provide a free one at bcentral
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tansy
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Hi Trundlebush, I am also a newbie but I have found this site most useful and you will find counters there, www.bravenet.com Hope this helps, first time I have felt useful, I am just amazed at the depth of advice available on this forum, its worth a fortune. Happy Christmas Everyone. Tansy
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owen
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Bravenet is useful, but sadly I can't use any of their services on my website, because Bravenet add advertising which attempt to place tracking cookies. This would be going against the content of my site.
Owen,
http://www.isecurity.org.uk
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RichardB
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Hi, try HERE, might be what you are looking for.
Richard 
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safeTsurfa
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Another non-advertising alternative is HTMLgear part of Tripod-Lycos. That stuff provides a fully moderated guestbook too, and you don't need to be hosted at Tripod/Lycos/Angelfire to use it.
Of course, by far the easiest way, is get hosted at a site which supports CGI/PHP, and insert a tiny pre-built script like I have at my domain.
safeTsurfa
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gollum
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I would say safeTsurfa has the best idea. To write a php script to do a hit couter aint that difficult either, and with php, you can record stats eg refferrer, ip etc. I dont know any perl (what most people call cgi), but you should be able to do the same in that. A good book, which I am learning php from is PHP in easy steps by Mike McGrath published by computer step. It has a stats sript in it and this can be altered to record hits.
Edited by TheFatControlleR on 23/12/2003 23:39 (server time).
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safeTsurfa
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Don't even need to write your own for this, I use pre-made ones, readily available for free use from many scripting tutorial sites. Try a Google search. I actually run two - the visible one, and the hidden one which logs the IP etc of every visitor who enters the domain.
I also log them again if they use the interactive items (guestbook, recommend the site mail, etc). That way, if they start up any crap on my domain, I can nail them for it with their ISP, which is essential if you are running a registered family safe site (the ICRA logo isn't there for decoration).
safeTsurfa
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webby
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Hi Trundlebush
I have tried a few different counters on my websites and if you want one where you don't have to fiddle about with scripts you could try: www.statcounter.com
You just copy and paste the code into the html of each page you want to track.
They offer a large amount of features for free - no advertising on your site, no popups etc and if you have any problems in using their services they have a forum where you get plenty of help. Much better than Bravenet
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