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[html on wheels]

I built a web site for my father using html and he has repeatedly asked my for a counter so that he will know how many people have visited his site.

www.billeverhar dt.com

Does anyone have any idea where I can get the code for a counter? or if I can even put in a counter considering I am doing the site strictly with html?

[ronverdonk]

If you want to use counters with strictly HTML, it is not possible. That is because you need (a) a file or a db to store the info and the counters and (b) some logic to collect the data, such as (I assume) date/time, ip address, browser, page visited, etc.

Your server provider may keep details on visitors as a service. But if you want to collect, store and display the visitor's data yourself, you have to use some server-side language, like ASP, PHP.

Ronald

[html on wheels]

I just copied some code and put it on the web site and we have a counter now, but I had to erase a hyperlink (Link to Buy) which was showing up beneath the counter itself.

I just hope the people who view our site aren't going to be antagonized by the website from which I copied the free counter code.

[drhowarddrfine]

They'll be more antagonized by the counter because nobody cares. Displaying visitor counters is oh so 1990s.

[html on wheels]

Speaking of nobody "gives a crap", IE works just fine on my computer, thank you.

[drhowarddrfine]

IE works fine on everybody's Windows computer. It just doesn't work fine on the web. It's 10 years behind web standards and is the bain of every web developer's work. Use a modern browser. Don't use IE.