Gledwood's Drug Confessions: A Heroin Addict's Blog
Saturday, 30 December 2006
HELP!!!
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: extremely irritatedly, as I just said.
Topic: miscellaneous

PLEASE HELP ME!!

I know someone out there can.

All I want to do is install a hit-counter on this blog, so I'll have some idea of how many folks come tiptoeing across my innermost confessions...

I've found the hit counter. I know how to highlight, ctrl+C to pick up then ctrl+V to set down again.

I opened my html editor. I was unable to scroll through loads of <g.obble/dygo%ok> crap as only one paragraph of <r/ubbish> was showing.

Please, does anyone know where I'm meant to paste the technical code? How do I do this? Someone must know. Loads of you lot have counters on your blogs. You must at least know someone else you can collar — please force them to answer me!

Or if you cannot answer yourself, tell me where I can go on the net to find out...

Many thanks.

PS What do you think of the new darker, less-glary blue? Answers below, please...


Posted by gledwood at 4:48 PM GMT

Saturday, 30 December 2006 - 7:28 PM GMT

Name: "CW"

Not quite sure what you're doing as there is no html editor for the blogs. There are only advanced customization templates. Counter code would go on the main page layout template (index.btpl).

A good place to put it might be under the side panel link components code if the counter isn't too wide or you may stretch out the side panel link and cover up some of the text in your entries. You could also place it at the bottom of the page under the entries. You'll probably want to place a line break <br> before the code for the counter or include the counter in a <div> so it starts on a new line.

Since blog pages are dynamically generated from basic templates, the counter will appear on all your blog "pages" and will probably increment with every page view. That's not going to give you a lot of info unless the counter sets cookies and can remember visitors for an entire session so they are only counted once/ session.  A basic hit counter won't be of much use there.

Saturday, 30 December 2006 - 8:04 PM GMT

Name: "Ruth"

Anonymous said...

Hi Gledwood

Re the Neoworks counter; I'm with Blogger Beta and can click on edit template and in the side bar area click on New Element; this gives a range of choices like add picture, add site feed etc. One of them says HTML/Java script and I just paste the code into that. Hopefully Lycos have something similar. Remember if your using neo2 that you need to paste in 2 codes, the first is just the tracking device, the second is the actual counter. Good Luck

Hope the New Year brings a better and brighter future

Love

Ruthx
p.s. Did try to answer on your blog but it didn't let me sublit my comment. Will try again later in case you don't see this message

Saturday, 30 December 2006 - 8:10 PM GMT

Name: "Gledwood"
Home Page: http://gledwood. tripod.com/blog

Ruth if you see the above and wonder how it got there (!!!) I transferred it myself from yours so I can keep all advice in one place...

... hoping it shall make some sense to me...

... I did try this templates thing but the only templates I found were the ones like the meditating man in the corner who incidentally looks just like me...

... do I go into the html editor to find these templates?... supposedly no html editor for blogs, but how come I have one?

I really don't get this. There's some missing piece of info I ought to have... I will keep this info safe then when things make a little more sense to me hopefully all shall come in useful.

MEANWHILE ROLL UP ROLL UP COME ON EVERYONE TELL ME WHAT I'M NOT "GETTING". P L E A S E. GLEDS

Sunday, 31 December 2006 - 2:24 PM GMT

Name: "mary blackchurch"
Home Page: http://maryblackchurch.heroindiaries.com/

HI, I found this for you through yahoo search..I the counter you have a tripod one or an independent one..not that it makes any difference..just that the Tripod one will probably fit perfectly and you won't have to worry about changing the size to fit your blog. Usually counter's sit in your sidebar somewhere...or at the bottom of your main page templete. Do you have access to your sidebar? If so   where ever you see HTML code is where you want to place your code..just stay outside of code that begins and ends in these arrows:  <!--  -->

and you should be okay. Or you could copy and paste your main page code into an email for me and I'll look at it..will try and find a place to put your counter code. No matter what you do though..save the original HTML code first (in word or something) by copy and paste..in case something goes wrong you will have the original HTML. Then experiment. It looks more confusing than it really is. Good luck and Happy New Year to you.

Here's the post I found:

MEMBERSHIP QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Get the inside dirt on some of the questions most frequently fielded by our dedicated membership department!

Q: How do I place a counter on my page?

The HTML code for a basic Tripod counter is as follows: <IMG SRC="/bin/counter/page_name.html">. If the file name of your page is "index.html," the counter code is <IMG SRC="/bin/counter/index.html">

This code will produce the actual counter. You can place text around it if you wish. Currently, you cannot manually change the number displayed on your counter. You can, however, change the color, by adding the following code: ?RRGGBB. Example: <IMG SRC="/bin/counter/index.html?000000">. The six digits following the question mark are standard hexadecimal color code. In the example above, "000000" is the code for black.

 https://www.tripod.lycos.com/about/insider/content/020104.html

 

Sunday, 31 December 2006 - 2:33 PM GMT

Name: "Gledwood"
Home Page: https://gledwood.tripod.com/blog

Thanks for that. I'm going to have a renewed try at all that stuff tomorrow... all information is appreciated.

I'll tell you what gets me... in this age of "Windows", we're expected to comprehend such html gobbledygook... it's no simpler than the old "Basic" our ZX Spectrum came preloaded with... only I had some grasp of that. This modern stuff is a complete mystery to me!

Gleds

Sunday, 31 December 2006 - 2:34 PM GMT

Name: "anonymous"

Sorry: forgot to say; will email you that code if I ever work out how to do it...

(More to the point, how to access the bit you're talking about)...

Righty-ho then,

G

Saturday, 6 January 2007 - 6:00 PM GMT

Name: "Felix"

Shove your code for your counter anywhere between the body tags

and ps statcounter is really good.

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