This is a comment tag where the comment is the HTML code for a counter. A counter keeps track of the number of times your page is visited. I put it in a comment because some HTML editors do not recognize this as a tag, instead they treat it as an image. As a result, the tag gets modified each time I try to work on the page. I hit on the idea of putting it into a comment to preserve the tag. Then I insert the comment right next to where I want the counter to appear.

If you open this page in an HTML editor the code for the tag looks like this:

<!-- This is the counter:

<img SRC="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?trgb=ffffff&df=yourorganization.index.html|md=6|dd=E|ft= 0&pad=F">

-->

The part in bold is the code for the counter. The rest is a comment. Copy the bold part into the code of your page to create a counter. Using Netscape's Composer, copy the code then click Insert on the menu bar. Select HTML Tag... Then hold down the Control Key (Command Key on a Mac) and press the letter v to paste the code into your page. Click OK.

I leave the comment tag in the page near the counter so that I can copy it in whenever I need it.

Please note: you need to change the part of the tag that identifies your organization. Above the tag reads:

yourorganization.index.html

Change the "yourorganization" part to you organization's user name. For example, my user name is "chic" (as in my KORRnet address - www.korrnet.org/chic). So, my counter looks like this:

<img SRC="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?trgb=ffffff&df=chic.index.html|md=6|dd=E|ft=0&pad= F">

For a more thorough discussion of counters, go to the Counter Page.