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Article ID: 241773 - Last Review: February 22, 2007 - Revision: 1.1
How to Make a Hit Counter Count Backward
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This article describes how to make a FrontPage hit counter count down to zero.
In order to get the FrontPage hit counter to count backward, you must create a custom graphical interface format (GIF), rather than using one of the default graphics types.
- Create a custom .gif using any graphic program. The graphic must have the numbers 0 through 9 in the graphic. Also, the numbers must be evenly spaced. The FrontPage hit counter will divide the graphic into 10 sections each 1/10th of the width of the entire graphic. In other words, if the graphic is 10 pixels tall and 100 pixels wide, each number will have a 10 by 10 pixel space to occupy. Place the numbers in reverse order from nine down to zero (left to right) and save the graphic into the images folder in your web.
- Open your web and double-click the page you want to include the hit counter on.
- Position the cursor at the location you want the hit counter to appear.
- From the Insert menu select Component and click Hit Counter
- Select the radio button for a custom picture and in the box type /Images/Filename.gif, where Filename.gif is the name of the file you have created.
- Check the reset counter to check box and specify zero as the number (this will display all 9s to begin with)
- Check the number of digits to display check box, and specify the number of digits to display (specifying 5 will show 99998 in the hit counter to start).
- Click OK and save the page.
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