doug Posted September 28, 2003 Report Share Posted September 28, 2003 Where can I get a simple hit counter. Went looking in PCA and followed a suggestion to try Google. The first free one came up asking for the details of my site, including password etc. Bombed out of that. Carried on browsing PCA then saw FE's response to powerless's suggestion re: an FAQ page. Shivered and came back here for friendly response. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirbster Posted September 28, 2003 Report Share Posted September 28, 2003 I use statcounter. they send me a report each week on my hits, lots of information on there from screen resolution of visitors to which browser they are using etc.It's all totally free.Statcounter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shirley_Crabtree Posted September 28, 2003 Report Share Posted September 28, 2003 Have you checked to see if plusnet provide one Doug?I'd be surprised if they don't....try looking around the members centre.(I can't,I'm not a member).ISP provided counters are usually very,very simple to use.Blueyonders is merely a cut n paste job.Cheers.Shirl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted September 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 It turns out that my account with plusnet does not have the webstats facility. I can get it by upgrading from my present £18.99/month to £21.99/month.Being a mere geriatric pensioner with our Tone to support I can't afford it. Anyone got any suggestions? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 hmmmm, Im with plusnet and have access to all the webstats plus the site buildiers and all the rest of the gubbins they throw in........as for hit counters go to www.bravenet.com ive used them in the past Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 Kirbster a couple of posts up this thread recommended Statcounter. Put a link there and everything for you. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 The one i use is Site MeterYou get a lot of reports, bar charts & graphs with them aswell.I have been using them for 2 years now with no probs, and there free :D Good luckTony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 Having partly sorted out my index page I'm still struggling re-hit counter. I've pasted a suggestion by Shirley onto the stats page but it doesn't seem correct. Anysuggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 <IMG SRC="/zisp/counter"><IMG SRC="/zisp/counter">doug you have used the html code for the tag brackets instead of the brackets themselves. If you see what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 Huh? Haven't a clue :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 the code should look like this <IMG SRC="/zisp/counter">but on your web site... when I look at the source it looks like this... <IMG SRC="/zisp/counter">the angle brackets are called tags.... these things < > for the code to work it has to have these tags the trouble is that you have the html code < and > instead of < and > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 But I have posted and can only see Where can you see the < ? :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Doug, r/click when you are viewing the page, select 'view source' and it's the last line there, if you open the page on your hd, using notepad you can edit that line.HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Right. Give that a go this afternoon. Breakfast now then race to get the last of the hanging baskets in - first frost last night. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 When you are looking at your site if you click on View in your browser, then view source the actual HTML code that makes the page look the way it does will be displayed.An HTML tag is a code element that tells the Web browser what to do with your text. Each tag will appear as letters or words between a < (less than sign) and a > (greater than sign). So if I wanted my text to be bold then the HTML would look like this <b>this text is bold</b>But the actual text on the web would look like this this text is boldBut say I was writing a web page and I wanted to show someone a particular tag. If I just typed <b> then the web page would intepret it as a command so to get the angle brackets to show I have to give the web page the code for angle brackets that you see.So if I was showing you how to do this this text is bold on a web pageThen the actual HTML that I would write would be this <b>this text is bold</b> which would actually come out looking like this<b>this text is bold</b>Try this, open notepad then copy and paste the following into it. then click on save as and name your document "practice.htm" only without the quotes. Just save it to your desk top for now. then close notepad and you will see a new web document on your desktop. Double click it and it will open in your browser. Voila!!! Click on View and view source and you will see the html that you just wrote.Have a look at my www that is done using very simple commands 'cos I don't know that many. Look at the source.here is a link you might find useful too. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-page1.htmok..... here is the html then.<html><head><title>practice</title><head><body>To make text bold the HTML command needs to look like this<b>this text is bold</b> but it will show like this on the browser<b>this text is bold</B></body><html>One last thing. I don't think you can get a hit counter to work just by copying and pasting an image tag........ although I could be wrong. Can anyone help doug on getting his hit counter onto his page???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 instructions for using the zisp/tools counter http://help.blueyonder.co.uk/html/web/zisp..._tutorial.shtmlhttp://help.blueyonder.co.uk/html/web/zisp...reference.shtmlmight be of use ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Wow! Just popped back in to paste a thought and there's a complete listing of things tp follow up! The thought - which may be answered when I digest those threads - is should I put the hit counter on the index page. I'm still using the index page as generated by the plus.net editor which isn't user friendly, as far as I'm comcerned, i.e. I can't get it to do what I want and trying to generate my own in Word or Front Page wasn't doing very well. So I'm leaving it for the moment while I get on with the meat of what I'm trying to do at the present.You said to have fun Nel and so I am. I've got lots of questions but they're for later. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Well most people put their hit counter on their main page, home page or index page or what ever you like to call it.Did you have a look at that tutorial site???Madboy has done a lot in Frontpage.... I could never get to grips with it myself but I think that is because I was trying to do all sorts of complicated stuff without knowing the basics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Well I've had a go and added a link to the index page. All I'm getting is a box with a red X in it. What am I not doing properly? Still at least it's a step forward. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Doug, I was having a look around plusnet and I found this pagehttp://portal.plus.net/supportpages.html?a=38these are plusnets counters. It doesn't say that there are any restrictions to the type of account you have. Why don't you give one of those a go and see what happens?? I'm off today so will be popping in and out I think, we will get this sorted one way or another. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Aw gee, thanks Nel. It's sort of working now. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Sort of??? It looks ok to me.......... I was number 10. :D Well done Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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