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PLEASE NOTE:

I have been recently informed of difficulties when trying to copy the code described in the following instructions which no longer seem to be working properly.

I will update this HOWTO as soon as I find a new way of easily inserting a hit counter - offering the same possibilities as this one.

In the meantime, I suggest anyone who needs to insert a hit counter urgently to go on the website where I got that code from and get their own.

Just log on:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/counter/

An alternative website is http://www.easy-hit-counter.com

The only annoying thing when you use the codes they give you on those 2 websites is that they are free but you have to display some promotional text. I had removed the promotional text in the code available in this Howto but this could account for the "Counter HTML is not valid" message most of you are getting now.

I am sorry about that but I promise I will eventually get it sorted.

Alexa
(21 February 2005)








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How to insert a hit counter in your profile page?

1.Go to your ProZ profile
2.Click on “Edit your profile”
3.There are two sections in which you can insert a hint counter, either:
·“Enter info about you or your agency's areas of specialization”
·“Info about you or your agency's accomplishments, pricing, etc.”

In either one of those two sections paste one of following codes.

Remember to amend the "visitors since ..., 2004" (I think it’s quite useful for visitors to know when you installed your hit counter, this way they understand why there are not many hits at the beginning)



BASIC CODE

<div align="center">
<TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD><div align="center"><IMG SRC="http://count.digitalpoint.com/" ALT="Hit Counter" BORDER=0 WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=19><span FACE="Arial" style="font-size:11px"><BR></span></TD></TR></TABLE>
<font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> visitors since ….., 2004</font></div>



CODE TO COUNT ONLY UNIQUE VISITORS

<div align="center">
<TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD><div align="center"><IMG SRC="http://count.digitalpoint.com/?u=1" ALT="Hit Counter" BORDER=0 WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=19><span FACE="Arial" style="font-size:11px"><BR></span></div></TD></TR></TABLE>
<font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> visitors since ….., 2004</font></div>



CODE WITH TEXT IN RED

<div align="center">
<TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD><div align="center"><IMG SRC="http://count.digitalpoint.com/?c=FF0000" ALT=" Hit Counter " BORDER=0 WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=19><span FACE="Arial" style="font-size:11px"><BR></span></TD></TR></TABLE>
<font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> visitors since ….., 2004</font></div>



« FF0000 » is the code for RED but you can use any color you like, as long as you know the code.



CODE WITH SMALLER TEXT

<div align="center">
<TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD><div align="center"><IMG SRC="http://count.digitalpoint.com/?f=1" ALT=" Hit Counter " BORDER=0 WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=19><span FACE="Arial" style="font-size:11px"><BR></span></TD></TR></TABLE>
<font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> visitors since ….., 2004</font></div>




COMBINED CODE

You can combine all this additional features – all you need to do is make sure the expression after: "http://count.digitalpoint.com/
starts with ?
end with "
each feature is separated with &

Example: code with smaller text + text in red + count only unique visitors:

<div align="center">
<TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD><div align="center"><IMG SRC="http://count.digitalpoint.com/?f=1&c=FF0000&u=1" ALT=" Hit Counter " BORDER=0 WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=19><span FACE="Arial" style="font-size:11px"><BR></span></TD></TR></TABLE>
<font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> visitors since ….., 2004</font></div>