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FirstGateDreamer
05-01-2006, 03:44 AM
Looking for a good free, simple, easy to use webstats tool. What is everybody using? I've never used any before and I'm still new at this. Just launched officially today and want.

http://www.firstgatedreamer.com/

PHP-version 4.3.9 (Pixelpost's min requirement: PHP version: 4.3.0 )
MySQL version 4.0.17-log (Pixelpost's min requirement: MySQL: 3.23.58 )
GD-lib bundled (2.0.28 compatible) with JPEG support
File Uploads to pixelpost site are possible.
Server Software Apache/2.0.51 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/4.3.9
EXIF Pixelpost is using exifer v1.5 for EXIF-information.

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also - I haven't seen much mention of this topic anywhere here...perhaps a search button on this forum might be a good idea?

ranko
05-01-2006, 05:18 AM
have not had much experience with webstats myself but am currently trying out statcounter (http://www.statcounter.com). seems to be pretty solid--there's a feature to either enter your (static) IP or set a cookie on your machine so your own visits aren't logged, which I thought was pretty neat.

(although i'm now having second thoughts about whether keeping track of stats at all is a healthy idea to begin with...)

As for the search--there's one right on the header up there, between "new posts" and "quick links" :)

Ubbe
05-01-2006, 05:40 AM
to your website, i think you should either develop a matching dark style, or remove the link to it. But cool looking site, if you know a little php you can easily make your own stats, if you look on www.tutorialized.com tho i only found hits, unique hits, users online, and other fairly simple stuff.

FirstGateDreamer
05-01-2006, 02:18 PM
Thanks Ranko, I'm blind and I shouldn't be doing this stuff so late at night.

Thanks Ubbe, I will be customizing the dark template shortly as well and I figured I'd just leave the option open.

I'll look into both of your suggestions.

Cheers
r.

Connie
05-01-2006, 02:49 PM
About stats:

1) there is nearly always webstatistic available at the server side so you can find info about your visitors

2) I personally don't value big numbers

All my websites (and I have a lot) deal with special content, tastes, art etc.
so nothing for the masses and maybe 5 visitors who estimate the content is more important than 2000 visitors...

and small numbers in a visitor counter always are misleading, as they are associated with "low quality"... or "not interesting"

you know why pearls are beautiful? They come in small numbers:rolleyes:

Joe[y]
05-01-2006, 05:42 PM
if you don't mind breaking your budget of 0 a little bit i recommend www.haveamint.com - overshadows any over stats system ever.

altenatively sign up for google analytics... which is pretty good - free though so you get what you pay for :P

blinking8s
05-03-2006, 07:02 PM
i love mint, analytics is just too much for a photoblog, at least in my opinion...mint tells me what i need to know right away, google's solution is more like marketing research hardcore webstats 101

rambohoho
05-05-2006, 07:33 PM
does mint have geographic information, like whois?
i use statcounter and is great, never seen anycounter better (with geo info).
but it is limited to 100 logs.
so i've installed slimstat to keep logs for longer time and use statcounter to view current visitor infos.
the cons of slimstat is it's rather complicated to view visitor's detailed geo info like city he lives. only country on the side of ip address.

Paul Wood
05-05-2006, 08:11 PM
I'm another big fan of mint. Not free, but not expensive. And it's got a pixelpost plug-in!

blimmer
05-08-2006, 07:27 PM
weed on rails (http://weed.rbse.com/) - a mint like stats on rails

its wonderful like mint but free. ask if your host supports ruby on rails

noodles
09-04-2008, 09:55 PM
Hi There,

Can someone please tell me how and where to add the code for statcounter to work on my site? Is it on index.php?

Please help. Thanks in advance.

FirstGateDreamer
09-06-2008, 02:39 AM
Can someone please tell me how and where to add the code for statcounter to work on my site? Is it on index.php?

Statscounter has been good to me :) and it does all I expected from them.

They go in your image template (and whatever template you want to track).

They give you two snippets of code.

The bigger one

<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var sc_project=xxxxxxx;
var sc_invisible=0;
var sc_partition=32;
var sc_security="xxxxxxxx";
</script>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->

with your project and security data can go in the HEAD section, I put mine just before the closing HEAD tag.

The second one

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter_xhtml.js"></script>
<noscript><div class="statcounter"><a class="statcounter" href="http://www.statcounter.com/"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c33.statcounter.com/3007547/0/0fcdb862/0/" alt="free web stats" /></a></div></noscript>

goes in the body. I tuck it away at the bottom just before the closing BODY tag.

I'm pretty sure it's all in their instructions.

cheers
r.

FirstGateDreamer
09-06-2008, 02:48 AM
Oh by the way Noodles... Great blog and nice way to make a new use of Pixelpost. Maybe even a first of it's kind!? They might have to rename it Menupost ;)

noodles
09-06-2008, 10:40 AM
Hi R,

I did exactly as instructed, placed the code just before the </body> however, it didn't work. Here's my image_template.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<title><SITE_TITLE></title>
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../Downloads/templates/osiris/styles/light.css" title="light" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" href="../Downloads/index.php?x=rss" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom Feed" href="../Downloads/index.php?x=atom" />

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
#copyright {
text-align: center;
color: <HARMONIOUS_NORMAL>;
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

#copyright a,
#copyright a:link,
#copyright a:visited {
color: <HARMONIOUS_NORMAL>;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: normal;
}

body{
background-color: <HARMONIOUS_DARK>;
color: <HARMONIOUS_NORMAL>;
}

#info {
text-align: center;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
background-color: <HARMONIOUS_DARK>;
}

#info a,
#info a:link,
#info a:visited {
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: normal;
}
.style1 {font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace}
.style3 {
color: #336699
}
.style4 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}
.style5 {color: #999999}
</style>

<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
<!-- BEGIN
function flip(rid){
current=(document.getElementById(rid).style.displa y == 'none') ? 'block' : 'none';
document.getElementById(rid).style.display = current;
}
function gotohome(){
document.location = 'index.php';
}
function gotocomments(){
document.location = '#comments';
}

// End -->
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function clearBox(box) {
if(box.value==box.defaultValue) {
box.value = "";
}
}
//-->
</script>
</head>

<body>

<div id="content">

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody><tr>
<td width="418" align="center">
<div id="transition" class="image">
<div id="picture">
<div class="wrap1">
<div class="wrap2">
<div class="wrap3">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div align="right" class="style1">
<div align="center" class="style3">riceandnoodles</div>
</div>
</div>

<div id="copyright">
<br />
<a href="../Downloads/index.php" title="home">Fresh</a> |
<a href="../Downloads/index.php?showimage=&lt;IMAGE_PREVIOUS_ID&gt;" title="previous">&lt;&lt;</a> |
<a href="../Downloads/index.php?showimage=&lt;IMAGE_NEXT_ID&gt;" title="next">&gt;&gt;</a> |
<a onclick="flip('comments'); gotocomments(); return false;">Info/Comments (
<IMAGE_COMMENTS_NUMBER>)</a> | <LINK_TO_PAGED_ARCHIVE> |
<a href="../Downloads/index.php?x=about" title="about">About</a> |
<a href="../Downloads/index.php?x=rss" title="RSS 2.0 feed">RSS</a>/<a href="../Downloads/index.php?x=atom" title="ATOM feed">Atom</a>

<img class="photobox" src="../Downloads/images/&lt;IMAGE_NAME&gt;" title="<IMAGE_TITLE>" alt="<IMAGE_TITLE>" border="0" width="<IMAGE_WIDTH>" height="<IMAGE_HEIGHT>" /></a>

<div id="copyright"><div id="comments" a name="comments">
<div align="center"><font size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;
<IMAGE_TITLE>


</font><br />
<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
<IMAGE_NOTES>
<div align="left"><br />
<br />
Posted on:&nbsp;
<IMAGE_DATE>
<br />
<IMAGE_CATEGORY>
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div>
<IMAGE_COMMENTS>

<div align="left"><span class="title"><font size=2>Leave me sweet notes...</font></span> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
<form method='post' action='../Downloads/index.php?x=save_comment' name='commentform' accept-charset='UTF-8'>
<textarea name='message' rows='2' cols='50' onfocus="clearBox(this);">Your Comment Here...</textarea>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='text' name='name' class='input' value='<VINFO_NAME>' id="name"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <label for="name"><font size=1>Name</font></label><br /><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='text' name='url' class='input' value='<VINFO_URL>' id="url"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <label for="url"><font size=1>Website URL, if any</font></label><br /><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class='input' type='text' name='email' value='<VINFO_EMAIL>' id="email"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <label for="email"><font size=1>Email (not visible to others)</font></label><br /><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='hidden' name='parent_name' value='<IMAGE_NAME>' />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input name='vcookie' type='checkbox' id="saveinfo" value='set' checked="checked" />
<label for="saveinfo"><font size=1>Save User Info</font></label><br /><br />
<input type='submit' value='Add' class="comment-button"/>
<br />
<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font size=1><COMMENT_POPUP> As Popup</font>
<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='hidden' name='parent_id' value='<IMAGE_ID>' />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='hidden' name='parent_name' value='<IMAGE_NAME>' />
</form>

</div>
</div>

<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>flip('comments');</script>

<div class="style4" id="info">
<br />
<span class="style5">All Images Copyright &copy; 2006-2008 Mae Gabriel | All Rights Reserved</span> </div>
</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>


<br clear="all" />


<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<script type="text/javascript">
sc_project=1837610;
sc_invisible=0;
sc_partition=17;
sc_security="dee9962a";
sc_text=2;
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter_xhtml.js"></script><noscript><div class="statcounter"><a title="web stats" class="statcounter" href="http://www.statcounter.com/free_web_stats.html"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c18.statcounter.com/1837610/0/dee9962a/0/" alt="web stats" /></a></div></noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->


</body>
</html>



The problem is, the main image is not showing?! It's also doing something funny with my css i.e., comment section and the about page? The counter is at the bottom of the image though before you click on the 'info/comments' section.

Thanks for your help and the compliments. :)

Mae

FirstGateDreamer
09-10-2008, 07:12 PM
If I'm not mistaken it looks like you've eventually figured it out. I looked at your site and code and it all looks good to me. Let me know if you're still having troubles.