Counters

[Chameleon]

I followed the directions but some of them made no sense. For instance, you give lots of examples of counters but where in the world do you put the dd=??

I put a counter on my page but it doesn't work. How do I fix that?

I been thinking about going through all your HTML help and posting the bugs/I-Don't-Understands so you techies who know all about this stuff (and so miss the little bits) can lower it to our level? (This is meant in a humorous light.)

Anyway, HELP!!

--Chameleon the semi-techie

[Deb]

Ok, glad you asked http://www.susogi.net/forums/smile.gif And yes, I'll try to get in that area soon and write it in simpler terms... What's posted here will help a great deal in deciding how to make it easier for all http://www.susogi.net/forums/smile.gif

The quick fix tutorial is as follows:

You can put whatever code you'd like before and after the counter tag... For example to arrange the size of text around it or center it on the page etc etc....

Make sure you have at least the following in place with your counter tag....this is the minimum needed...
/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=UserName_count

Remember to replace UserName_count with your username... if all of your counters only contain UserName then they will ALL add one for each time any page is loaded... the df attribute defines a file that is holding the number to add to... it can be called whatever you'd like... you could for example define each page on your site with a seperate counter df=UserName_index.html and df=UserName_page2.html etc etc....

Now to add different features to your counter you can do this in any order seperating them inside the tag with what we call pipes
--> | <-- Making sure everything is contained within the quotes...
A pipe is created by holding the shift key down and hitting the \ backslash key...

so if you wanted to add the dd tag (dd defines what images you want the counter to be displayed in) to your counter you would add it like this

/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=UserName_count|dd=Whatever

Replaceing Whatever with the name of the images you want to use in your counter..

And if you wanted to add the ft= option to your counter also (ft defines the border width) you would just tack it on like this

/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=UserName_count|dd=Whatever|ft=3

The same goes for any of the MANY MANY options that are available with these counters adding any of them by seperating them with the pipe....

Hope this helps a lil bit... Please feel free to ask any questions in this area... the true counter help file is HUGE because their really are sooooo many options and ways to utilize this script.. so detailed questions will be easiest to answer http://www.susogi.net/forums/smile.gif

I'm going to head over to your page and see if I can pinpoint the problem your having http://www.susogi.net/forums/wink.gif

Deb
p.s. the counters will not allow the same IP to just 'reload, reload, reload' in order to count... so if trying that is what is making you think it's not working hehe nope that's not it.. it likes to wait a while before it counts the same person again or it will wait until another person loads it then it will count you again.. so two different ppl reloading a bunch would make it jump but one person doing it will not http://www.susogi.net/forums/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by Deb.]

[Deb]

Ok, seems your counter is working now http://www.susogi.net/forums/smile.gif

you have this on your page...




<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=chameleon_count"align=absmiddle>



</BODY>
</HTML>

All looks great... the only thing I may change if it were my page is possibly centering your counter so it doesn't sit on the border in your bg image you could do this by changing the

tag to a <p align="center"> and not forgetting to close the tag with a </p>
anotherwords it would look like this

<p align="center">
<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=chameleon_count" align=absmiddle>
</p>



</BODY>
</HTML>

To give you an example of an image set that may look nice on your page using many of the features... try putting this tag in your page... maybe the example will help you out a bit http://www.susogi.net/forums/smile.gif

<p align="center">
/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=chameleon_count|dd=RAINBOW2|ft=0|tr=1|pad=N
</p>



</BODY>
</HTML>

What that does is tell the script to give you the (dd=)RAINBOW2 images and make the background on them (tr=1)transparent along with making sure they have (ft=0)no border and only shows the (pad=N)numbers needed w/o showing the zero's before the numbers needed to show your current stats....

Hope this helps http://www.susogi.net/forums/smile.gif
Deb