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Counters - HoloCounters

Access counters are provided as standard feature of our Web hosting service. There are many options to customize and optimize counters for your pages. You can have up to 100 access counters per HoloWWW site.

• Creating an Access Counter
• Installing an Access Counter
• Counter Styles
• Optimizing Your Counters
• Trouble Shooting Colors & Transparency

Creating an Access Counter

You must create, delete, and set the value and font for your counters from the web Account Administration pages.

After logging in, choose:

• "HoloWWW Management" from the Table of Contents
• "Configure Counters" under the Administration section

After you create your counter, a URL will be generated that represents the counter. The URL will be in the form of:

Installing an Access Counter

Counters can be placed directly in your HTML code in two ways:

• With HoloSSI
• By including them as a GIF image to be displayed

The remainder of this page addresses displaying counters as GIF images.

To add a counter as a GIF image in your page, include its URL in an "IMG SRC" tag as in the following:

<IMG SRC="http://YOUR_DOMAIN/COUNTER_NAME.holocounter">

<IMG SRC="http://YOUR_DOMAIN/COUNTER_NAME.holocounter?parameters">

Counter Styles

The following style options are available:

Font

Selects the counter font to use. Fonts are available in many fonts and colors. Fonts which contain digits of varying widths have an asterisk after their names.

Sample

Foreground Color

Masks ALL colors excepts the background color to the color specified. This is best used with white fonts to change them to another color.

Sample

Background Color

Sets the background color to the color specified.

Sample

White Space

The white space color is used to justify and pad digits. For example, if the counter should be 6 digits wide and the number to show is only 4 digits wide, then the extra space would be the white space color.

If no white space color is specified, the background color is used instead.

Min Digits number

Specify the minimum number of digits wide the counter should be. This is useful to make the counter a predictable number of pixels wide. If the number does not have enough digits, the counter is padded with zeros, the background color, or the whitespace color.

See also: Optimizing Your Counters

Min Pixels number

Specifies the minimum number of pixels wide the counter should be. This is useful to make the counter a predictable number of pixels wide. Normally, this is only used with fonts which have varying widths for digits.

See also: Optimizing Your Counters

Zeros

If the number of digits in the counter is less than the number specifed with the digits option, this option will pad the number with leading zeros.

Transparent

Forces the background color of the counter to be transparent. Note: Some fonts already have the background color marked as transparent.

Sample

Justify left, center, or right

Specifies how to justify the counter if it is not as large as required by the width or pixels options.

Optimizing Your Counters

To allow your page to be displayed as soon as possible, you should specify the size of your counter in your URL. For example, if you new your counter was had a width of 60 pixels and a height of 12 pixels you could use something similiar to this:

  <IMG SRC="http://www.yoursite.holowww.com/countername.html"
  WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=12>

Fonts with varying width have an asterisk after their name. In this case, you should set the minimum digits and the use the suggested width for the minimum pixels.

These fonts come from many sources and not all of them are well suited for color manipulation:

In general:

• Only white and gray fonts are suitable for colorizing.
• Only fonts that are not anti-aliased (smoothed) will look good when their background is made transparent.
• The font's background color may not be the color you expect.
• The font's foreground color may not be the color you expect.