Adding statcounter code to your blog

Thought it would be nice to know if anyone is actually reading my daily ramblings plus that and my friend John one of the mods at statcounter pointed out I hadn't installed it. Thank you John. So I thought right, statcounter installation on a blog. Now installing statcounter on my sites is easy all you do is open up your page in your favourite editor and plonk the code generated on your project (provided free at www.statcounter.com) within the body tags and away you go but with a blog I have no idea.

First thing I did was click customise and would you believe it you can edit the html. So that was that, first I threw in the code from my site to check it works and it did. So of I went to start a new project at statcounter, and while going through the simple procedure to get my code for my new project. Would you believe it statcounter has a tutorial on adding statcounter your blog and its even easier than what I did, no html editing needed HA! Anyway to save anyone going through what I did here is the tutorial:

Blogger (New Blogger) - StatCounter Code Installation Instructions

1. With your mouse, highlight ALL the code in the box above
2. Press and hold down the ctrl key, keeping the key held down press the 'c' key. (this will (c)opy the highlighted text into memory)
3. Log in to your Blogger account.
4. On the first "New Post" click "Layout".
5. Click "Add a Page Element".
6. Choose the "HTML/JavaScript" then click, "Add To Blog".
7. Paste the StatCounter code into the space provided. (ctrl v)
8. Click "Save Changes".

Blogger (Old Blogger) - StatCounter Code Installation Instructions

1. With your mouse, highlight ALL the code in the box above
2. Press and hold down the ctrl key, keeping the key held down press the 'c' key. (this will (c)opy the highlighted text into memory)
3. Log in to your Blogger account and then
4. Click "Change Settings"
5. Click "Template"
6. Scroll down until you find the "Powered by Blogger" line (you'll see the "bloggerbutton1.gif")
7. Paste the StatCounter Code (ctrl v)
8. Click "Save Template Changes"
9. Publish Site

Web Resources

I've amassed loads of links to some excellent sites while learning to create always24-7 and the forums. I started listing them on my site but I kept forgetting to update the list. Hopefully this will not happen with this blog.

If you have any useful links then please post them and I will add them to this list when I next update it.

All the best.
Michael.

Books:

Dreamweaver for Dummies
Excellent book, highly recommended by me
PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites
Another book I highly recommend. Also Larry Ullman has a website where he updates the scripts and will give you full help and support personally. I know his helped me a few times :).

Webmaster Tools:

http://www.isapirewrite.com/
Apache-style URL Rewriting for IIS
http://www.w3schools.com/
I use this a lot, not only because you can find out everything about coding but because you can also test your scripts here.
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/default.htm
http://livepr.raketforskning.com/
http://www.iwebtool.com/
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
Great introduction into using .htaccess
http://oy-oy.eu/page/jscode/
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/
http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/showthread.php?t=22675
List of SEO tools on Statcounter forum - well worth a look
http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp
Sitemap Generator
http://gsitecrawler.com/
Free Google and Yahoo sitemap generator software.
http://www.copyscape.com/
Check if anyone is copying your site.
http://uitest.com/en/check/

ALL Programming: PHP, Javascript - the lot:
Some sites cater for everything so there here.
http://www.devarticles.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/
I use this a lot, not only because you can find out everything about coding but because you can also test your scripts here.
http://www.pageresource.com/
http://www.kirupa.com/
PHP, .NET, Flash, Photoshop

HTML / CSS:

http://www.html.net/
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
http://stilleye.com/temp/marginfix.html
http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/saila_layout.html
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery.html#nogo
Shows what can be achieved with CSS
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/magnify.html#nogo
http://www.w3schools.com/
I use this a lot, not only because you can find out everything about coding but because you can also test your scripts here.
http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.fulloffacts.com/lessons/css/
http://www.tizag.com/

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
http://www.php.net/
http://www.phphacks.com/
http://www.tizag.com/
http://www.phpjunkyard.com/
Unfortunately found this far to late as I could have used some of these PHP scripts but who knows I might in the future.

Javascript:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_examples.asp
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Station/4320/index.htm
http://oy-oy.eu/page/jscode/
http://247mgf.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=32
Come on I had to include the 2 scripts I wrote!

Flash:
http://www.learnflash.com/
http://www.cartoonsmart.com/
http://www.webwasp.co.uk/
http://www.flashkit.com/
http://www.actionscript.org/resources/categories/Tutorials/
Flash and Actionscript
http://www.webado.net/tutorials-embedding-flash.php
Embedding Flash etc with valid code.

Photoshop:
http://www.watchandlearnphotoshop.com/
http://www.dwphotoshop.com/photoshop/
http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/photoshop/basics
http://chami.com/
Not really photoshop but does help you create favicon's for your website.

Colour Schemes:
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
http://www.siteprocentral.com/html_color_code.html
http://websitetips.com/color/
http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/

Clipart etc:
http://www.flamingtext.com/

Dreamweaver:
http://www.learnthat.com/computers/learn-362-dreamweaver_mx_2004.htm

Fireworks:
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/swap_images.asp
Creating swap images in fireworks.
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/rollover_images.asp#fireworks
Creating rollover images in fireworks or Dreamweaver.

Desktop Publishing:
http://desktoppublishing.com/

Free and Open Source Software:
http://www.nonags.com/
http://www.littlebitsmultimedia.com/
http://www.freeware-guide.com/index.html
http://www.context.cx/
Free programmers editor as used by yours truly, excellent
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
Allows you to Convert, Edit, and Compose Images from a command line. Can be used on a server to automate the procedure using many programming languages including PHP.
http://gsitecrawler.com/
Free Google and Yahoo sitemap generator software.

Forums:
http://www.forum-software.org/
A good site for showing details of all or most forum packages. However there are some inaccuracies but a good starting point.
http://www.phpbb.com/
The home of the excellent phpBB Forum package as used by always24-7.co.uk

Earning Resources for your website can be found here:
http://247mgf/forum/viewtopic.php?t=204
These can now be found at http://247mgf.co.uk/index.php/webmasters/

Web Promotion / Advertising Resources can be found here:
http://247mgf/forum/viewtopic.php?t=203
These can now be found at http://247mgf.co.uk/index.php/webmasters/

Miscellenous:
http://www.auditmypc.com/
Tools for web security, port scanning, viruses, internet speed tests etc etc