counter.xbm

To put a visitor counter like this

on your web page, put an image tag in your HTML document like:
<IMG SRC="http://www.lehigh.edu/cgi-bin/counter.xbm?unique_id">
where unique_id is a unique identifier for your counter. The suggested form of the id is "youruserid_something". For example: abc7_homepage

To display the counter without leading zeros, add the "nolead" parameter:
http://www.lehigh.edu/cgi-bin/counter.xbm?abc7_homepage&nolead
To display with black digits on a white background, add the "noreverse" parameter:
http://www.lehigh.edu/cgi-bin/counter.xbm?abc7_homepage&noreverse
And to do both:
http://www.lehigh.edu/cgi-bin/counter.xbm?abc7_homepage&noreverse+nolead
To commify your counter add "commify" to any of the above.

When creating a new counter you can set the starting value by adding a count parameter to the URL. So if the counter "abc7_homepage" didn't exist, accessing the URL
http://www.lehigh.edu/cgi-bin/counter.xbm?abc7_homepage&COUNT=1234
will create a new counter called "abc7_homepage" with its counter set to 1234. This step is not necessary - a newly-referenced counter is initialized to 1.