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How The Heck Do I Install A Hit Counter?

We make a subset of George Burgyan's HTML access counter available. This counter is a text based counter that has the ability to count any page that you may have. It also make allowances for non-displayed counts and straight counts (123) or ordinal counts (123rd).

Usage
Use of the counter can be as simple as adding the following line to your HTML page at the point where you would like the count to appear.

You can also add the options listed in the following table. For example if you would like a count that is listed in ordinal fasion add the line

to your HTML page. If you would like an ordinal count that does not link back to this instruction page add the following line to your HTML page:

Example:
You are the 4121st person to read this instruction page.
Please note: Your filename MUST end with .html (not .htm) for the counter to work correctly.
There are more examples available.

Options
ord
Ordinalize the count.
Example
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
nc
No count. This option is useful if you want to include the counter in several places in one page. Just set all but the last counter to not count, and everything will work fine.

nl
No link. Use this if you really don't want a link back to the counter instruction page. Use this with care because it really cuts down on one of the most freqently asked questions on the comp.infosystems.www.* newsgroups; "How do I add a counter to my page."

nd
No display. Added by popular request. This makes the counter count but not display it's results. At this point you will have to modify your page to remove the -nd option when you wish to see the current access count.

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