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Frequently Asked Questions
- Web Page Hit Counter (UNIX and Windows)
- Free Guestbook Script (UNIX and Windows)
- Free WWWBoard Script (UNIX and Windows)
Shared Hosting — CGI Library (UNIX and Windows)
Web Page Hit Counter
You can place an odometer style counter on one or more of your web pages to advertise the number of "hits" to a specific web page.
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How to use
Add the following line of code to an HTML document to display a counter:
<br><img src="/cgi-bin/newcount?userID&width=5&font=digital"> The new count script resides in the server's cgi-bin directory and can be referenced from your HTML. The script does NOT reside in your cgi-local directory and is pre-installed for your convenience. Substitute your userID for userID above. If you would like to add a counter to more than one page, start with "userID1" and increment by one each time you add a new counter to another page. (i.e. userID1, userID2, etc.) To change the number of digits displayed in the counter, adjust the value of the width attribute. To display an odometer style counter, change the value of font from "digital" to "odometer". To make the counter invisible to visitors, add &noshow; to the end of the tag. Then add a second copy of the same counter to a secret page to see what the value of the counter is. Add &noinc; to the counter tag to prevent the counter from incrementing when you view it on this second page. This is an easy way to track hits to a page without having to look at your usage statistics in your Control Panel. Resetting Your Hit Counter An occasion may arise where you want to reset your hit counter to zero. Likewise if, for some reason, your hit counter loses its last known total, you may want to reset it to that total. Note that you cannot reset your counter's totals by yourself. To reset those totals, call our Technical Support department and request that the "hits" in your counter be set to a specific number. |
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Free Web Guestbook Script
If you've ever wanted to add a guest book to your web site you can thank the well-recognized Matt Wright for writing a wonderful Perl script and making it readily available via the web.
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To install the Guestbook script:
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Special Notes
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Special Installation Notes
First time users should use the Guestbook Installer within your Control Panel to install the Guestbook program. The instructions contained herein are being provided for people who wish to modify the script installed by the Guestbook Installer or to install multiple versions of this application.
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Free WWWBoard Script
WWWBoard is a free interactive message board that allows visitors to read, post, and respond to messages in an interactive news group type forum. To maintain the message board's content, the site webmaster will have password-protected access to an administrative interface.
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Installing a WWWBoard Message Board
That's all there is to it -- your new message board is now installed! Now, to offer its use to your site visitors, just include your message board's Internet address (as provided in Step 6) on your web page(s). |
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Administering Your Message Board
From your administration page, you can remove messages (files) from your message board as well as change your administrator password. To administer your message board, go to:
http://www./cgi-local/wwwadmin.pl Be sure to replace "YOUR_DOMAIN" with your actual domain name. Special Notes:
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