News:
Saturday,
28 February 2004
As promised I have now implemented time zones for all my
International friends! If you want
to use this facility I have made it as straight forward as possible
and also on the creation of each counter, so for each new counter
you create you can have a different time zone for it, i.e. I have
noticed a few companies have different websites! One with the
US extension and some with the UK extensions as well, this will
aid the time zones of each domain extension; this is obviosly
if you want this degree of versatility! At very least it puts
your statistics in line with your website or countries time zone.
Those that made new counters over the
last few days will find some discrepancies in their hourly totals,
this was not found until quite a few hours later when a bug was
discovered, this has now been fixed and is fully operational,
however as always if you have any problems please contact me.
On older accounts prior to today's date
you will need to re-create your counters in order to get the time
zone working for your country of origin, i.e. the servers time
zone is GMT London UK, you can go plus or minus this time to get
the exact time in your country in both hours and minutes, this
will obviosly reflect in your statistics as in your hours of visitation!
You don't need to do this if you live in the UK. I am preparing
for another change in the counter to improve it's efficiency so
until then watch this space ;~)
BTW. I know I have been quite for a
few months but am always busy in the background "honest guv",
i.e. take a look at the new globel site www.free-stuff.me.uk
this is an extension to webmaster tools website and will become
part of the S810 robot, more on that later but for now is a useful
addition to Globel and will improve over the coming months, there
is as always lot's of stuff going on in the background and with
such a long way to go, best foot forward and all that ;~)
Paul
News:
Thursday,
18 September 2003
Four New Statistics for you, I am pleased to add yet another four
important statistics to your arsenal in the control panel, namely:
Browsers. Platforms. Languages. And last but not least Countries,
the robot will start updating these from today so some of you
will not see any results appear straight away, however those of
you with very active accounts will see some additions to these
areas in a very short time.
I have also updated the Statistics FAQ
for these pages:
http://www.free-counters.co.uk/counter_statistics_java.htm
http://www.free-counters.co.uk/counter_statistics_keywords.htm
http://www.free-counters.co.uk/counter_statistics_domains_1.htm
The New Browser Statistic:
This gives you the actual browser specifically the visitor was
using when visiting your site:
The New Platforms Statistic:
This gives you the actual operating system of the user when he/she
was visiting your site, please do not confuse this with other
statistic compilations, simply stating windows 98 is not necessarily
the true operating system that the user was using: i.e. you can
use windows 98 on other platforms like Mac PC's this is a true
statistic where available of your users actual operating system
itself as Win32.
The New Languages Statistic:
This also gives you the true language of your visitor when they
visit your site, this is taken again from the operating system
itself, so whatever language they are using on that system will
be shown here:
The New Countries Statistic:
Again please do not mistake this one for other statistical compilations,
usually a visitors country of origination may be taken from their
ISP this is more accurate, however more often than not it is taken
from a referring domain like .com for the US and. co.uk for the
UK, this is not a true statistic, the most accurate statistic
you can get is actually from the machine itself, this statistic
is compiled this way and the actual country of origin is taken
again from the visitors operating system.
I hope you are pleased with all the
new statistics introduced I will be monitoring their progress
over the next four weeks, if you have any problems with any of
this please let me know as usual. You can see the new statistics
in operation in the usual Demo Account area.
Paul
News:
Sunday, 31 August 2003
I am pleased
to introduce a few new additions to the statistics including the
long awaited search keywords, initially you will notice that the
"statistics ADV" has now moved into the counter statistics folder
in your control panels, thought it best to keep it all in one
place; as the statistics are going to expand over the coming months.
3 new additions to the statistics, The first one is the new Top
100 last referrals, this is precisely what it say's, your last
100 referrals over whatever time period with the most recent at
the very top, descending down your list to the very last.
The
next statistic is slightly more complex and that is the new referral
domains statistics, these give you a list of domains, with the
highest hitter at the very top; the domain referrals are this
way so that you can see at a glance which domain overall is sending
you the most hits to your web pages, again these descend from
highest to the lowest hitter to your site, you can also expand
on each domain that is sending you your hits with each page from
that domain itself.
This also extends to the full search engine string that the visitor
used when visiting your site for
the first time....
including keywords , this new approach to referrals gives you
extended tracking to the whole picture and I think you will agree
are a very powerful addition to Globel Administrator, these new
referral statistics take over from your "statistics ADV"
version, your old referrals are still within "statistics ADV"
now renamed to "Ye Olde Stats ADV" these will however not be updated
from this point on in the referrals area, as the new referral
list is far more superior, however the full page views will always
be available.
Last and certainly not least are the new search engine keywords;
this I have been promising for a while but was constantly getting
distracted by other issues, these new search keywords will help
greatly with your Meta site search adjustments to your pages,
you can now optimize your site around these keywords and also
see what others you can improve on to get your site ranking high
in search engine criterion.
Overall
I think I am pleased with the new statistics and as always there's
still more to come so watch this space and enjoy the new additions,
Oh Yes; all new search keywords referrals etc. will start from
today, so it may take a week or two before you really see the
benefit of the new referral engines, I have a few additions to
make yet but after this you will be able to request a statistics
rebuild which will essentially rebuild all your statistics again
so that you can see all your past keywords and referrals in the
new interface.
Have fun
Paul
BTW. If you want to see the new statistics in full action click
demo and log on to the demo account! this was typed out fairly
fast to give you this bit of news, I will be updating the FAQ
on all this in the near future.
News:
Saturday, 09 August 2003
Well the new release of the
Bulk Mailer has Started and now we are back to the statistics,
I have released a preliminary version of the new statistics in
your control panels, this is mainly because I would appreciate
your feedback on them, they have been designed to give you page
views of a particular statistic, so please let me know what you
think.
There is no overhead cost as in statistical
views at the moment and if everything goes OK there will never
be but I reserve this to see how it goes for now, over the next
two to four weeks I am back concentrating on the statistical areas
of your account, within this time I hope to include new additions
like keywords and country locations, for now let's see how that
goes.
You can access the new statistics by
clicking on "counter statistics new" in the control panel, you
can still access your other statistics in statistics ADV (if you
notice I have moved them so you can access them easier), both
sets of statistics will be improved to give users unparalleled
variety within their accounts, additional news is that I will
soon be moving all accounts to a faster server, this means whilst
this move is in process your counter will be out of action for
1 to a maximum of 2 days, this is to allow enough time for the
new DNS to resolve.
This new move will make a huge difference
to the counter and get your accounts ready to facilitate extra
services I have planned over the next 6 months and beyond so get
ready for some really powerful features, the price for registration
will remain the same, (other than standard world inflation amounts),
Why? why not as you know most other services charge this amount
per month if not more, you gain by me being a single programmer
and unlike lot's of other sites who buy in their software to offer
a service, this baby is my own and will continue to become extremely
powerful.
Paul
News:
Wednesday, 09 July 2003
It's all going on???
Introducing the HTML Globel Encryptor!! This is a new addition
to Globels Webmaster Tools where you have no need to worry about
right clicks anymore, you can actually encrypt the source code
so others cannot read it but their browser will?
I have just registered http://www.encrypted.me.uk
so it may not work for a while, this will be the location of all
the help files on this subject and future projects regarding encryption.
Even better? It's also free if you
have a globel account and if you have paid it's included in your
registration of Globel itself!!
Present Limitations
1. If you have a free account you can
encrypt up to 1'000 characters, this may increase in the future
although it could decrease as well.
2. If you have a paid globel account you can encrypt up to 10'000
characters again this may increase in the future.
What does it do?
It encrypts your source code on your web page itself, you paste
your whole or even part of your source code into the Encryptor
press encrypt and it presents you with a piece of encrypted data
to paste into the source of your document, it will display exactly
the same as if it was HTML the only difference is when a user
right clicks your page all they will see is gobble de gook, encrypts
Java Too! There is also a facility to encrypt plain text for protecting
emails; this is not a total encryption solution "that is to come"
however this is more of a deterrent to any possible criminal activity,
and it really works.
How do I get it?
1. Log on to your Globel account!
2. Click Add service!
3. Click Add Encryptor Option!
That's it, just use it and enjoy!
As usual there are no FAQ or help files
on this yet as it's hot off the press but they are on the way,
if you have any questions regarding this new tool please feel
free to ask, and as usual look forward to your comments.
Paul
News:
Saturday,
21 June 2003
All Paid Up Registered users can now use
Globels mail list facility…
Features:
1. You can now have a little form on your site to collect customers
that want to join your mail list or newsletter, this is supplied
in HTML form or just create a link to your subscribe form on
the globel site!!
2. At the moment whilst the new feature is under intense scrutiny
and testing a maximum of 500 email addresses can be collected
using this new feature.
3. When a user joins your list you can prepare an automatic
welcome message that is sent to your subscriber on joining your
list, this is an optional feature but if switched on you can
also prepare a goodbye message should the user leave, in addition
to this in the welcome email you can switch on a deletion string
that the user can use as courtesy to leave your list.
4. You can construct your own thank you pages and error pages
as the new list allows you to seamlessly collect information
at globel and re-direct to anywhere on the internet.
5. At the moment collection of email address is given to you
in a list form ready for you to cut and paste into your favourite
mailer program.
Other features
to come are:
1. Individual deletion of subscribed users
2. A mailer program to manage your lists.
This new globel
list feature will only be available to registered users, although
the Globel mailer will be available Free at selected sites.
At the moment
there are no FAQ available on the subject but as always contact
me if you have a problem! This particular interface has been made
very simple to use and if you are used to the globel control panel
should find this particular new part of Globel a Snip!
Thank you
all for your constant input I am busy building the mailer at present
but will be switching back to the counter shortly to improve this
more!
To get
your mail list installed do the following:
1. Log on to your Globel Account. In the control panel Click "Add
Service"
2. Check on this page that it says,
"This Globel Account is REGISTERED"
If it does say this then you should have a new link that say's
"Install Mailing List" Click this
if you want to install this feature!!
That's it!! A new menu item will appear
in your control panel on the left hand side!! Enter this to set
your new mailing list up. To add new users to your list just add
their email address with a password, if account notification is
set up they will receive a automated email message that you wrote.
If you have paid for an account and
your control panel say's anything else than registered LOOK
HERE to find out what to do!
Have a good
one and any problems.......... mail me ;~)
Paul
News:
Monday,
09 June 2003
Important to all paid users! There are a
lot of changes going on in the background, steady and progressive
implementation of these are required the first stage is to ensure
everyone is up to speed!
Within your control panel you have
a facility called "Add Service" if you are a paid user could you
please check that on this page it reads "This Globel Account is
REGISTERED" if it does not read this
simple message please send me an email with your account number
"10000?????" whatever the? May be, please include your username
and the registration email address.
I will then update your account if
it reads anything else! I seem to have been diversifying into
several areas of Globel over the past eight weeks, small improvements
have been going on all the time during this period, small tweak
here and there etc. all modifications are a step forward but I
think it's all going to come all at once; this time around.
Like the new forms service, this is
well and truly underway; and the first part of this you should
see implemented by the end of this week, we need to ensure that
all panels are updated with the message above, this in particular
has been updated to accept several services to your accounts and
must read this particular message before any new additions can
be installed.
The first part of the forms service
is a mailing list program; this mailing list is quite different
initially it will allow up to a 500 to be listed on your mailing
list and for you to be able to post to all of your users within
minutes, this is to ensure the program does not consume huge amounts
of bandwidth however if your requirements are past 500 emails
in one hit please do inform me.
It should be mentioned at this point
I do not support Spam; the new system is designed to collect email
address for you 24/7 for individuals that want to join your list
and to post to those individuals your newsletters with minimal
fuss, if anyone is reported abusing this facility I shall have
no alternative other than to suspend their account, this particular
service is designed as an aid, not a hindrance.
More on this when we get to its release.
At this point please make sure your account is ready
Paul
News:
Sunday, 27 April 2003 2:56 AM
The Globel Forms are coming!!
All past upgrades seem to have taken quite well and there have
not been any problems so far. This news is mainly to do with the
new forms system that will be introduced to Globel (fingers And
Legs crossed) in the next few weeks.
It's really, really powerful me dears
I have built in loads of functionality and in the usual Globel
styli it's as versatile as the counter itself there are a few
drawbacks though I bet you were waiting for the big BUT.
Only registered users will be able
to use the facility and those that are registered it is all included
in this registration, the reasons behind this are quite simple
registered users are more less likely to abuse the new forms service
and handing power of functionality opens up all sorts of likelihood
of abuse, there are no extra fee's involved and I am leaving that
part pretty open for now as I do not see any problems but like
the counter I reserve judgment until out in the field.
For this part another new bit of news
is the counter service will now become part of Globel as well
as the New Forms System, like for like they are comparable in
facilities and capabilities they will shortly be combined into
the Globel Service as Total, I have had to put on hold a few other
projects that were underway and for this part $5.45 is the registration
fee for the whole year and this will be shortly known as payment
for the Globel Service which includes the counter and the new
Forms System when it is released, the amount of use of each part
of the system is reserved until tested high usage users may have
to pay an additional fee a bit like the "amount of hits ratio"
but this will be suspended until well tested into the future and
may never come to fruition.
This is another bit I have enjoyed
building (I am really having fun here!!) The New Forms system
is quite different and assure you it's been well worth waiting
for and again satisfies quite a few users requests in the past,
I do apologize for the wait but at the moment I am testing it
and there is quite a lot of work involved in both building and
testing and to be honest cannot wait to release it but as they
say patience is a virtue? oh hum.... I was actually hoping to
release this new part before Globel's birthday on the 24th of
march 2003 she/he was 1 year old and my haven't we learned a lot
in that time I am looking forward to the next year and am happy
that you are with me a BIG Thankyou to all my users for supporting
Globel in the first year of his/her life.
Oh; Yes. Another bit of news is I will
be upgrading the server again soon and allocating a second server
to Globel, this is likely to happen in the next couple of months
but will notify you when all this takes place, this will facilitate
the new free counter service and separate paid users and trial
accounts on to a very powerful 2nd machine, but more on this then.
For now I bid you all adieu.
Paul
News:
Saturday, 29 March 2003
Hello everyone. Not much
to report at this point although several significant changes have
taken place in the background!!!
The interface colours have changed
a little to make the pages a little easier to read although the
statistics part will not be updated for at least couple of weeks,
main thing is the background changes that affect the user database,
these will not have much relevance yet and do affect your logging
in to the system and most will not notice any difference, as you
do log in these upgrades will take place in the background and
if you do have a problem logging in as always contact me and I
will put it right for you, although in saying that it has been
tested and do not expect too many problems in this area.
I am expecting to introduce a forms
system for users in the next few weeks, I am in the process of
building it and provided all tests go to plan you will be able
to have a forms system on your website, this is due to lot's of
requests and I needed a rest from the counter for a little while
anyway; until then I bid you adieu for now.
Paul
News:
New
Functions?
Sunday,
23 February 2003:
Well yet another improvement sorted
with some new additions, this new set of amendments to the control
panel should help new users no end to find their way around the
control panel !!I think I am happy with this part now how about
you lot ;~)
If
you need a little brief information "as always" on the new menu
design Look Here:
http://www.free-counters.co.uk/help_counter_set_up_control_panel.htm
I think that's it now the new design should make navigating easier
and will extend to the statistics and also allow me to continue
developing the counter without fear of losing you along the way
because it's very sectional and specific to an area of interest
at any moment in time, the FAQ need's serious updating now but
will do this along the way, as always any questions give me a
call.
Site Title:
On this new update a new kiddie is here. And that's site
title this is mainly for those who wanted to put counting since
at the top of their counters but can be used as a counter title
if you want or anything else for that matter, font/colour/size/words
are all controllable in the wizard as ever.
Unique
count:
Update to this allows you to now change the font/colour/size/words
on your unique counter, I even have updated the fact you can change
it's total that it starts at, I initially thought this was not
a good idea but a lot of you have requested it and so be it, if
you do change this total please only change it once as this is
a truly unique count and will only serve to confuse if you keep
changing it.
New
counter. Delete counter. Get HTML etc.
Have all been separated into separate pages and functions, this
helps new users but also allows those with multiple counters to
do stuff in bulk, I.e. if you need to delete a load of counters
all at once you now do not need to go in and out of pages. Just
keep clicking and deleting till your hearts content, this also
applies to getting you HTML code for your pages Etc.
***NEW**
Inheritance Function:
This I built to make life easier also, now all you need to do
is either build a template counter or make amendments to one counter
in the wizard and then use inheritance to apply that design to
other counters across your site, again with the keep clicking
attitude, all you have to do is pick your source counter i.e.
"template" and pick your destination counter "Target" the inheritance
function will then apply changes from template to target "but
not your count totals" n the next page it will then keep your
template as the source "and show this only" and remove both the
template and the counter you have just applied the changes to
from the target list and ask you if you want to apply these changes
to the next counter, so really it's just a case of keep clicking
through your list to apply to all.
Wizard
updated:
I have uncomplicated the wizard a bit more so now it's just a
case of jumping to a specific section within it, the wizard will
always demand a counter to work on now but once selected you can
navigate the new Wizard Menu until your hearts content or select
the "Next" Option to follow it's setup.
Please as always let me know if you have any problems on any of
this as usual and I will assist:
Paul
!
News:
Change
details?
Sunday,
09 February 2003
User change
of details, yet another important background change to globel,
you can now update your user details by simply entering the appropriate
section in the control panel, this means that when you change
your email address it's just a simple form to update your account,
also when your satisfied I am not some sort of mailing organisation
you can change your hotmail or yahoo email address for the real
one ;~)
BTW!!!!
NEW USERS:
The FAQ has not been updated yet with the following changes this
will happen as usual in due course, but the new panel is easier
to find things so Should not need so much help!
IMPORTANT NOTE:
A lot of the free services like hotmail or yahoo bounce back emails
now and again or give a ominous user does not have an account
notice! Although you probably do and although pretty innocent
this can cause our robot to think this is yet another bogus account
created by someone with nothing better to do with their time,
and may delete your account, please be sure you can be contacted
about our counter service and software this also helps to keep
the database clean.
You will also notice changes in the
format or layout of the control panel, this is to aid new users
and to make life a little easier, when I first started building
Globel I was more interested in the program itself so left this
for a later stage, since spending a little time on navigation
have improved the panel and have more changes to make to improve
it even more, this is also in preparation for other services to
be offered that will be all part of your registration, I am going
to do a simple statistics version in may 2003 (maybe earlier)
to help those with navigating the newly named "Advanced Statistics".
In this version the counters have been
split up more as well so now you can have a unique count on one
and not another, this minor upgrade is automatic and will occur
on any counters made after this date, your old counters are not
affected however until you make and delete a new counter the counter
hit control will be unobtainable on your old counters, to get
this working again just create and delete a counter!
The above is also in preparation for
some new fangled gadgets to be added to the counter and also to
improve it's efficiency, "MORE ON THIS LATER" but the new version
will be a major upgrade and you may need to re-paste your code
again, I think this should be the last time ever as with this
upgrade I should have covered virtually all possibilities including
WebTV users and the fact that java just does not work on their
machines but the new upgrade ensures this by using an image element
as well as java but as I said more on this later.
Please As Always......... Let me know
what you think
Paul
News:
Demo
Mode?
Sunday, 26 January 2002
Question is why do we use more than one counter? Full
site tracking has now been tested and is working correctly, I
have installed a new demo mode to see what the statistics look
like when fully in use HERE,
additionally a new FAQ page HERE
to try and explain the reasons for tracking more than one page,
and how it can benefit you!!
I have been; as I advised you previously;
doing a lot of cleaning up and doing stuff that did get left behind
in my haste of building the rest of Globel, a few steps forward
and three back at the moment, I am gathering my thoughts with
the counter as well, I enjoyed last year this year is going to
be even better I have lot's planned and as always will keep you
informed.
Paul
News:
Forgotten
Details?
Monday, 30 December 2002
No problem!!! Another change to Globel itself, I have gone off
the statistics and other parts of Globel for a little while whilst
I concentrate and improve the Globel program itself, in the last
few days I have added the much needed "I forgot my password" part
to the program as I was finding increasingly users wanting to
get their details again and taking up just a little of my time
doing this, don't mean that precariously and I do not want to
speak to all of you but I am on a "mission from god" as said by
the blue's brothers....
It may
be a good idea to just get your details anyway and print them
out as they now contain your "Account Number" as well as Your
"Account Transaction Code" these two are used in combination throughout
the life of your account and are unique to your account with Globel
Itself, on older accounts this information was not released even
although it did exist, but now you can get it simply by getting
Globel to resend your details, the primary key is your email address
so this has been used to extract the information for you….
So now
at any time you need your details Just ask Globel on the forms
provided, this is a one shot 24 hour form to stop robots in their
tracks "and others" exactly the same as the user registration
form which I have also taken a little time out to improve, there
is also lot's of other refinements needed within the program to
get on the way to perfection so I am doing these also but "I will
be back" shortly to improve the counter itself next on a few user
wants and a few idea's I have for it myself.
And if
I really get going, I may have one of my pleasant surprise's up
my sleeve for all of you, it's not over yet, in fact I have really
only just begun, so keep yew eye's peeled: ~O and thankyou once
again to all of you for being part of Globels Journey.
Paul...
News:
Java,
Screen, Daily Back Online!!!
Monday, 23 December 2002 3:49 AM
Some more good news as well as a merry Christmas to all my users,
as well as the referral information now I have added back all
the java and screen resolutions and also daily statistics into
the new layout….
To access
the all counters hits statistics all you need to do is click on
the link from the summary page in the general information area,
it's opposite the: "Hits All Pages And Counters For Period" area!!!
I will be adding graphs to the daily statistics in the New Year
as well as the search keyword information and search engine statistics,
I will be removing the hourly and weekday stats off of the summary
page's as well as this information is repeated now in your all
hits statistics
The reasons
for this is quite simple, I am going to extend the summary page
during the early part of next year and additionally this page
now has been allocated for users with lot's of counters across
their site, the system is capable of handling thousands of counters
on one site, however to list all their independent information
in the statistics has had to change a few things, including and
dependant on the amount of counters maybe a next 100 page sort
of listing utility, but for now I need to come off the statistics
for a while.
There are
several background improvements that need to be done as more users
join and I am thinking of switching back to the counter itself
again as there are some improvements here and additions I am thinking
of adding.
Please as
always let me know what you think so far and if you would like
any other features included…
All the
best
Paul
News:
Thursday, 12 December 2002
Counter Referral information
installed:
Good news the
counter referral information is now working in your statistics,
this new part of the statistics lists all WebPage referrers if
available including your referrals to your own WebPages, you can
find it on the red arrow under:
"All Referrers To Your Website's This Month"
In your main summary of whichever month you are viewing at the
time…
Refinement
At the moment this will list every single referrer
to your WebPage, this section will be refined in the new year
to include a search facility to find a particular referrer and/or
counter; additionally there will be a new set up section within
your counter to allow you to exclude certain sites from your search
i.e. "your own site", this is being
built mainly for those with more than a few hundred referrers
to their pages as it's a laborious job scrolling through thousands
of referrers; especially if there is a lot of cross referencing
going on within your site, i.e. one counter on one page within
your site will pick up another referring page within your site
creating another referring page in your list, the refinement parts
of the listing facility will give you the capability to remove
or include your site as you so wish……
Over this weekend I hope to add back
the all counter statistics
to the new design including your java and screen information,
this section has become slightly more complex for future development
plans, but it reads easier like your new statistics do, anyway
the proof is in the pudding so I will wait for your comments on
all of this….
Thanks
paul
News:
Sunday, 24 November 2002
4:51:58 PM
Counter statistics upgraded:
Well after a long
wait and several headaches along the way, outages and god knows
what else… today I have initiated the first part of the new statistics
across all accounts, this is version three and I don't really
want to change this part again so let me have your opinions, you
will notice it's very different and welcome your comments as this
part has been designed around your input and a few of my own ideas…
I say first part because it need's
to bed itself into the system first I will be adding the associated
links and java stuff back after 7 days, plus a few extras, provided
please no problems…
You have not lost anything a lot of
thought has gone into the basic structure of the new statistics
and now incorporates all your counter names as well, the counter
locations will be BACK, but these now will be specific to a counter
itself, so each lead off of your main counter will have it's own
unique set of locations….
Also the referral information can now
be released, I will just let you all get used to the new style
first, please let me know if you like…
Paul
News:
Important News Friday, 11 October
2002 4:01 PM GMT
START OF CHANGE: Changes to Globel and log on procedure "with
immediate effect": Because of the rapid growth of Globel and Counter
Accounts I have had to implement several changes to the way the
database is built to cope with millions instead of thousands and
still be as efficient as it is now, you may have noticed I have
closed the doors to globel as in new users for a few weeks whilst
I make all these changes, in the next 5 hours I will be changing
over to a new database design with the optimistic hope that you;
my user will experience no difference to the way you log on, however
if you do get a problem logging into your account please do tell
me, this change effects nothing else on your counter at this time
this upgrade is in the background and is major and you will not
be able to log in for 5-7 hours from the above time whilst I rebuild
the database and make these changes I apologise for any inconvenience,
if this period has elapsed and you still cannot log in please
let me know……
Paul
News:
Tuesday, 06 August 2002
Upgrade completed…. As forewarned the new upgrade to globel has
been completed this marks quite an improvement to our counter
and I hope you like what I have done.
through everyone's constant feedback
and suggestions it has enabled me to form new ideas and/or remedies
to improve the globel counter even more, so keep emm coming if
you have seen something somewhere else that you would like as
part of this counter or have a new idea that can improve it please
do tell me (this has to be a general idea and not something that
is copyrighted or special or unique to another company i.e. like
our wizard idea); I can then think out a way of including it or
making something better, most idea's within the counter are original
like the globel wizard but in most cases any suggestions you put
forward are either included as part of another idea or totally
different or better than the original just by looking at it a
different way, and most of all thankyou I think we make a good
team.
This new upgrade enables you to add
new counters on the fly but obviously if you delete a counter
you will loose all count totals on that particular counter, however
your statistics do not change any hits recorded by a particular
counter are kept forever even although that counter has long since
been deleted, each counter can have a separate count number and
can have a completely different look even although it is on the
same account but… you cannot select the hit monitor or separate
lengths of digits on each counter these are general at the moment
and if you want it on one you must have them across all counters,
"AT THE MOMENT" let's see this upgrade settle in first and that
will be an option for the future.
It goes without saying that there are
none or very limited FAQ's or help files on this part of the counter
yet the counter is evolving at a tremendous rate and some parts
of the counter are still being improved as you are reading this
so for this please be patient new users will not need to worry
about any of this at all as the new counter is automatically installed
with the latest edition…
When you log on now you will not be
able to do anything else but upgrade if you are an existing user
at this point, so for now best of luck and please enjoy this fruitful
new addition to the counter… As always any problems let me know,
and be real careful when deleting your counters…
Paul
News:
Monday, 29 July 2002-12:57
AM:
Warning Please Read: in the next 24 to 72 hours there is another
important upgrade to the counter and due to all counters across
the site, this is a blanket upgrade and cannot be bypassed in
any way; so this is an advanced warning to existing users you
will not be able to gain access to anything until this particular
upgrade is completed on your account…
After the new part of the program is
implemented hopefully after testing within the above time; when
you try you access your account "for counters only" you will be
faced with a screen to upgrade your account, to go any further
you must upgrade first as several parts of the counter manager
has been changed and will not work on the old counter…
There now is a counter editor in addition
to the wizard, the editor essentially adds extra counters to the
same account you can now add/edit and delete the counters on your
account, and this means you can add extra counters to your account
put them on separate pages with different running totals on each
page but will still be centralized in your statistics, there is
a maximum of 3 counters for FREE accounts at the moment...
This is quite a significant and exiting
change to the counter as well as a turning point, the initial
obvious advantages of this upgrade are as above, but; for an example,
in the statistics engine before the counter would tell the program
where it was on the Internet, several of you were using more than
one copy of the counter and even although the location was given
there is a vagueness to which page the counter was rooted from,
now because each counter has it's own identification it will give
it's identified name and root as well as it's location on the
Internet so there is no mistake which counter and which page we
are talking about as re translation.
There are absolutely limitless advantages
to this and all may not become apparent immediately but will over
time and is part of this counters evolvement to become absolutely
without doubt accurate to the last digit. On top of all this I
have been monitoring all accounts across the site and several
bug issues have been resolved in the new version not to mention
the cookie area as this counter is used on so many different platforms
so overall this upgrade is very important.
If you have any concerns before you
upgrade LOOK
HERE and if you are still concerned in any way don't
hesitate to contact me before you upgrade…
What this upgrade does:
It takes your old counter and it's total and converts it into
a named counter with the same total, also upgrades the counter
program and associated files, it does not touch your statistics
and runs as before with these:
V3 version accounts will not need to
do anything else not even re paste the code after upgrade the
setup will take all your default settings even from the wizard
and apply them to the new counter. But would be a wise precaution
to note down the counters number just in case something does go
wrong.
V2 version or older counters will need
to re-paste the code, but some V2 accounts may not need to do
anything else as the wizard settings will be replicated however
this was about the time when the new wizard was implemented, if
your account does not have any default settings which it did not
in older accounts you will need to use the wizard again, additionally
like above you must take your counters number down just in case…
How do I tell which version I have?
By simply looking at your pasting code on your WebPage if within
those lines it has the word.
1. " Countcode.txt " this is an old
account and will need all the extra work to the wizard editor
and settings and re pasting….
2. " XBcountcodeV2.txt " this is a V2 account and will require
re pasting but may or may not require further setup this depends
when the account was created as configuration files started around
this time.
3. " TXTcountcodeV3.js " this is the latest account in the last
2 months and is V3 this account will require little or no extra
work form you. You will not even have to re paste the code "as
promised" but if you create extra counters you will need to paste
these as each one has it's own unique identification set by again
yourself.
But in all cases of the above check
your code ON YOUR WebPage and TAKE NOTES just in case.
Please remember that every care has
been taken in the production of this counter and it's upgrades,
we additionally back up all your data on the server as an extra
precaution should something go wrong but ultimately cannot accept
responsibility for a situation if it does go bad so please take
all the precautions you can your end before you do anything major
like this and with information you collect and the information
we have stored we should be able to re establish your account
should the worst scenario happen…
As soon as this
upgrade is completed no single user will be allowed to have more
than one FREE account with us, there ARE exceptions to this rule
i.e. if you are a web developer and have several clients that
wish to use the counter then this is still OK but please tell
us what you are doing, if you have several accounts now you will
need to delete them and keep one, in this situation you must contact
us and tell us about it, if a user is found
using more than one account for the counter for no apparent reason
all accounts will be deleted for that user with no notice whatsoever
so please contact us and tell us what you are doing…..
The reasons for the above deletion
process of accounts with excess use is because we are trying to
keep everything in one place, there are several important changes
around the corner that are designed to benefit our users and future
updates will get confused if there is more than one user per one
account scenario, so please don't do it; additionally it is unfair
on others to take advantage of a good system like this….
Thanks
Paul
News:
Wednesday, 19 June 2002:
Well upgrade completed, if
you installed your account after: Wednesday, 19 June 2002 at 8:09
AM some of the following will not be relevant to you as all new
accounts created after this time will receive the new counter…
If you have one of our original accounts before V3 as soon as
you log on to the wizard or try to get your HTML code the wizard
will want to upgrade and ask you first.
If you have a V3 account the wizard will automatically upgrade
your account whilst using it in either case it will need to upgrade….
In order to benefit from the wizard and its new functions any
account prior to the above date will need to re-paste the HTML
code, this one I was not expecting and I know I said you will
not have to do it again and sorry but the wizard now makes extensive
use of cookies and your counter has had a really serious upgrade,
the HTML calling code now includes machine preparation calls to
ask your users computer if it wants cookies or not and if your
users do not like cookies then the code will stop sending them,
this is good netcitizen stuff so it's a good idea to think about
it your counter will still work if you cannot be bothered to re-paste
the code but I recommend you do to benefit from the use of cookies
as they will track the user right through your site…..
You can now stop your machine from being counted as well so every
time you visit the site you will not register a hit on your account,
as well as the new visitor monitor which monitors who's on your
site in real time, there has been some major changes to the counter
some you will not see yet for example the code now registers which
search engine has sent you this hit and what search keywords they
have used to find you this will all come into effect and is in
preparation for the new statistics being built which has seriously
been put behind because of these updates.
I am expecting this to take another two weeks allowing for any
reports of problems or bugs that may rear their ugly heads for
the statistics to come into full play and hopefully if everything
goes well and is as rock solid as the original counter (ton's
of tests done) we will be looking at something that is very closely
becoming second to none on the Internet at present and that is
what I am aiming for ("well we can all dream can't we"), to all
my original users thank you for sticking with me and hope you
have enjoyed watching the counter change quite rapid over the
past 2 months I am still on the case and have quite a bit more
to do towards perfection or as near as I can get it…
There are just ton's of features and benefits to come and will
be listed in the FAQ in due course… Paul
News:
Thursday, 13 June 2002:
Hello again or if you're
a new user Hi….
I've been busy that's why I have been quite if your wondering
building the statistics up to something we can chat about but
whilst I was doing that I got distracted because I needed to make
changes to the counter for the tracking device, the new version
now sends and retrieves cookies from your users, whilst this was
all going on I thought I would build a ("on site monitor") "because
I can" into the counter…
I think it's a useful little feature
and looks cool as part of the counter, I have to do a few other
things to implement it, i.e. changes to the wizard to switch it
on or off for those who do not want it but I am hoping if testing
goes well it should be available in the next few days if your
interested…
As for the statistics; well I have been
going round in circles trying to find an end to the features I
am building but as yet have not so please be patient I think they
should be well worth the wait…..
See ya Paul
News:
Friday, 24 May 2002:
The new Globel colour wizard
is coming along really nicely and thanks to all our users has
far exceeded our expectations... and has been delayed due to many
of your questions, this new version will literally give you the
facility to have thousands if not millions of different looking
counters at your disposal that will undoubtedly blend in and fit
virtually every WebPage design on the Internet just by the simple
and effective use of colours with the added Bonus now of font
colours, the features are really too numerous to mention here
at the moment but it's well worth the wait, the step by step wizard
makes it a breeze and builds the counter in real time as simple
or as diverse as your imagination…
The ideas we have had for this still
go past our even now new version, but you have to stop somewhere....
so we have added the facility in this version 3 to never have
to paste your code again… that's right; once you put the new code
of version three into your WebPage you will never have to do it
again total control will be here at your Globel control panel
so you can change the look of your counter every day if you want
to without even touching your web page and your new design will
dynamically happen within seconds of telling the wizard to build,
additionally later on in the year we will introduce textures and
dynamic Gif set construction so we are not finished yet but we
must at the moment move on to another important area which is….Stats!!!!
As promised very soon we will be switching
to the global statistics and improving these, we are using this
time to take all your inquiries (and every single user inquiry
is taken seriously and amazingly enough replied to) to improve
our service, remove any problems and maximize it's efficiency
if you have a problem or do not find our service adequate for
your needs please tell us about it we need your criticism to improve
our service.
A big Thankyou to all our users so far
and to all our new ones welcome and we hope you enjoy your stay
with us…
Paul
News:
Friday, 17 May 2002:
I have visited some of your sites with the counters on and must
say I am impressed, most of you are using the Globel wizard as
intended and producing some exceptionally different and impressive
looking counters in keeping with the style of your site, I shall
later this month when I get time be providing links to those sites
that have used their creativity well so newcomers can see what
can be done with a little imagination, well done you lot :-)…
If you wish to put yourself down for
one of these links please submit your URL and Username, this should
provide you with quite a few visitors as well as this site at
the time of writing receives in excess of 100 hits a day, I am
reserving ten spaces for this at the moment so be quick and put
your name down its cheap advertising…
Well nearly ready to go back to the
statistics part of this program, BUT FIRST I am upgrading again
to the brand new wizard, thanks to all those with patience and
sticking with us during the counters evolvement I think you will
find it's worth it, this new upgrade which I am estimating about
7 days will really make this counter so configurable it is amazing
with the wizard already a first in this area i.e. No Other Counter
Service Offers YOU This, the new text version will be released
with your Globel Wizard in the sky and offer so many variations
that truly are uncountable in fact only limited by your imagination,
this major upgrade again is truly unique and is as intended is
starting to set us apart from the rest as a few of our users have
said, you will be able to of course stick with your old one if
you want, if you upgrade you still will not loose any previous
information i.e. stats…
It's taken me around four to five weeks
to come to this point now, my determination is unscathed, so just
imagine what we can do in another month or so, there's still something
being cooked in the frying pan, and the stats well we will see
I will not make too many promises yet, the databases are accumulating
the information I need from all your sites so when the stats program
is completely finished, you will have as much information as you
can possibly get from any statistics site…
Paul
News:
Tuesday, 14 May 2002:
Hello again, well asides the good news
on the colour wizard being completed before time, and does not
seem to have had any problems so far, I wish to welcome on board
all the new users and give the good news of a rise in the page
views has been agreed, for a trial period to really see how it
goes the page view restriction has been increased to 25 and may
stay depending on how users use this facility, so now you can
view your statistics more in any one month, the reasons for this
is most users have been sensible with allocated recourses; when
I first built this I did not know what to expect and to be honest
was a bit wary in this area, but it seems that there is no problem
at all with the way users are using their accounts, the worst
thing that could happen here is users using all recourses on page
views and slowing down everyone else, we have heaps of bandwidth
but the users have been coming in thick and fast, and so far so
good :-)…
Paul
News:
Sunday, 05 May 2002:
Yes and I work on Sundays as well… crikey you lot are keeping
me busy I may take a hour off if that's all right with you so
I can have a bath or something…anyway; some more statistics have
been added to Globel and you can view them as they stand at the
moment from the example left…
if you have an account you can view your own stuff in real time
from your website, a few have asked for graphs but that may be
a while yet thought I would get the meat and vegetables over with
first… pretty graphs come later even then there may be costs attached
because of yes you guessed it "bandwidth" that images consume
being transferred to your machine….
As you can see by the example a lot
more stats i.e.…
1. Overall count total for the counter
regardless what you set it at…
2. Total amount of hits for
the month…
3. Total of unique hits for the month …
4. Total amount of reloads from same users…
5. Screen colours depth...
6. Screen or monitor size…
7. Java enabled…
8. Now all databases are backed up every night…
And there is still more to come so
as always stay tuned…. please be sure to
read the bit about page views on that page
Paul
News:
Thursday, 02 May 2002:
hello now your counter statistics are available from your control
panel, please be sure to read the bit about
page views on that page, the stats will improve over the
next few weeks at the moment you can only get a:
- Overall count total for the counter
regardless what you set it at…
- Total amount of hits for the month…
- Total of unique hits for the month
…
This will extend to include lots of
other stats including entry page and type of operating system
your users are using etc. etc. so stay tuned……. Paul