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Web Page Access Counter
Web Page Access Counters are made available to Forward Communications Web Site Customers through this page and at a nominal fee. There are many different styles that you can use. You can even change styles any time you want just by modifying your own Web Page.
You can choose from these styles to use. Please see the usage instructions below.
| Style Name | Example |
|---|---|
| led |  |
| odometer |  |
| lcd |  |
| speckled |  |
| noisy |  |
| cyan |  |
| eggs |  |
| halloween |  |
| curly |  |
| timex |  |
| red |  |
| orange |  |
| chalk |  |
| scoreboard |  |
| neat |  |
| beach |  |
| electric |  |
| fancy |  |
| frozen |  |
| handwriting |  |
| oldstyle |  |
| sf |  |
| shadow |  |
| recess |  |
| bigballs |  |
| stencil |  |
The counter is called like this in your HTML:
<img src="/scripts/counter.exe?arg1=value1&arg2=value2&...&argn=valuen">
where the arguments are:
| Argument (* means required) | Possible Values | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| link* | anything that doesn't contain a space | Uniquely identifies the page calling the counter. This is case-sensitive. See examples below. |
| width | 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or 9 | The width of the resulting image in digits. Extra zeros will be added to the beginning. If the width is too short for the number to be displayed, it is lengthened so that all digits may be displayed. Default is 4. |
| style* | any directory name under the /digits directory, for example, led, or the reserved value simple. Should not contain spaces | Specifies the set of digits to use in constructing the final image, or specifes the use of the simple style 1. Should be all lower-case |
| ord | yes or no (must be lowercase). | If ord=yes, an ordinal number will be outputted 2. An ordinal number is a number like 345th, 10871st, 22nd, etc. The default is no |
| bgcolour | RRGGBB or trans | When using the simple style, specifies the background colour of the
image, or if trans is used, specifies a transparent background.
RRGGBB should be 3 2-digit hex values in one string, similar to the
HTML command <BODY BGCOLOR="RRGGBB">. This argument has no meaning when style does not equal simple. The default is 000000 (black). |
| fgcolour | RRGGBB | When using the simple style, specifies the foreground colour of the image. Same format as bgcolour. The default is FFFFFF (white). |
| inc | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 | Determines how much to increment the counter. Using 0 means the counter will not increment. Using a value less than 0 will result in no increment. Using a value greater than 5 will result in an increment of 5. If you are calling from a computer specified in the [No-Increment-For] section of counter.cfg, this argument has no effect. |
Notes: 1The simple style looks like this:This style requires less disk I/O and thus (should) execute more quickly.
2To use ordinal numbers, you need to have GIFs called th.gif, st.gif, nd.gif and rd.gif in your /digits/X/ directory, where X is the style name. Only the LED style comes with these extra GIFs: you will have to create some for the other styles. If you use the simple style, you can always use ordinal numbers if you wish.
Examples
Here are some examples of using the counter.
<img src="/scripts/counter.exe?link=myhomepage&style=led">
<img src="/scripts/counter.exe?link=page2&style=odometer&width=7">
<img src="/scripts/counter.exe?link=page3&style=simple&bgcolour=00FFFF&fgcolour=FF0000">
<img src="/scripts/counter.exe?link=page4&style=led&width=0&ord=yes">
<img src="/scripts/counter.exe?link=anotherpage&style=simple&fgcolour=00FF88&ord=yes">
Q: How do I create my own styles?
A: Simply create 10 GIFs, one for each digit. They must all be the same size. Save them as 0.gif, 1.gif, etc. . Style names may not have spaces, and are limited to 64 characters. You may use transparent GIFs as long as the transparent colour is the same in all 10 GIFs. If you want to use ordinal numbers with this style, you must also create files th.gif, st.gif, nd.gif, and rd.gif. They must be the same size as the digits and should say, respectively, "th", "st", "nd", and "rd". Then contact Carl at Forward Communications for instructions on how to place them on the Web Server for you to use in your page.
Q: How can I keep track of hits without having a visible counter?
A: Not sure why people want to do this, but anyway:
In your <img src="...">, put height=1 width=1.
Q: How can I get my web page to load faster when I'm using a counter?
A: You should specify the height and width of the image. Each digit in these style are 15x20, so width = 15*(# of digits displayed) and height = 20. Now put this in your HTML: <img height=20 width=X src="/scripts/...">
Q: I'm using the simple style, but I can't change the background/foreground colour?
A: 1) Did you spell bgcolour and fgcolour correctly? (Americans note the U).
2) If it uses the default colour (black for background, white for foreground) then you didn't specify 3 two-digit hex numbers.
Remember that it goes RRGGBB (Read, Green, Blue).
Q: How accurate is the counter?
A: The counter increments everytime it is loaded. It is not loaded when:
