7.5   Web-Counters
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This is an image of some digits which is created by a utility maintained 
by the ISP on the web-site (which stores and increments a count every
time it is accessed), and which you can insert into your web page.
There is a universal web-counter available from www.digits.com;  but
I'll just describe the one available to Argonet users on the Argo site.

To include the counter, you include an image element of the form
   <IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/counttest.bm?parameters">
(where you can also include other standard attributes such as ALT="many").
The 'parameters' part consists of one or more terms of the form
name=value separated by & if there are more than one of them.

The first term must be  code=userid  where userid is your user name
(the bit before the @ in your email address, as used to specify your
web-site directory);  this will produce a counter in the default style.

Subsequent terms can be one or more of:
   fore=cc  back=cc  brdr=cc  and  size=n
where cc is a two-digit number for the colour of the foreground digits,
background, and border respectively;  and n is 0 for the default large
size or 1 for a smaller size.

The colour numbers are 00 to 07 for the standard BBC colours;  the six
actual colours can have 8 added for a darker shade or 16 added for a
lighter shade;  and similarly four intermediate greys can be selected.
The full colour table is:

   00 Black (100%)  08 Dark grey (80%)         16 Medium light grey (40%)

   01 Red           09 Dark red (brown)        17 Light red (pink)
   02 Green         10 Dark green (olive)      18 Light green (lime)
   03 Yellow        11 Dark yellow (khaki)     19 Light yellow (cream)
   04 Blue          12 Dark blue (indigo)      20 Light blue
   05 Magenta       13 Dark magenta (purple)   21 Light magenta (lilac)
   06 Cyan          14 Dark cyan (turquoise)   22 Light cyan

   07 White (0%)    15 Medium dark grey (60%)  23 Light grey (20%)

So, for the "protovale" site to have a large counter with brown digits
on a cream background  and unspecified border, I would put
   <IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/counttest.bm?code=protovale&fore=09&back=19">

Note that no image will be displayed if you are viewing your page 
off-line!
Even if you are logged on but viewing a local page (from your hard disc), 
the counter will not be accessed unless you change the reference to an 
absolute URL 
   SRC="http://www.argonet.co.uk/cgi-bin/counttest.bm?parameters".