Installing a built-in Death Counter

on your web page

Installing a built-in Death Counter on your web page is very easy. For those familiar with HTML coding, it only takes about 2 minutes to insert the coding. However, for the rest it should only take about 10 minutes. The installation is very easy so don’t let the detailed instructions intimidate you.

I'm assuming that since you built your own website, you have some type of web page developer’s software (such as FrontPage). Use that software to make these changes.

Before you start, make sure you back up your files. This is something you should always do on a regular basis anyhow.

Before you work on your actual web page, you should try working on a fresh blank page. You do this for two reasons. First, there is less coding on the page to confuse you. Second, it gives you a chance of practicing before you start working on your actual document.

 

  1. Open your developer’s software (such as FrontPage).

  2. Open the web page where you want to place the counter.

  3. Put your cursor on the page at the exact location where you want the counter to appear. Click your left mouse button.

  4. Go from the Normal view mode to the HTML view mode. The way you view your HTML coding differs from program to program, but if you have worked on your web page before, you will know how to get to the HTML view mode.

  5. You should now see a page with a lot of coding. The location where the cursor was at in the normal mode should be the same place where the cursor is at in the HTML mode.

  6. Hit the Enter key a couple times to give you some room to work.

  7. Word processors usually put hidden coding along with their text (for fonts and paragraph formatting, etc). As a result, when you copy text from a word processor to a web page, you may inadvertently copy the hidden coding. Therefore, to eliminate this hidden coding, we will first put the coding in a program that doesn’t see the hidden code (such as Window’s Notepad). Once we paste it in Notepad, we will copy it from Notepad and paste it into your web page.

  8. To open Notepad, do the following:

    1. Click on the START button on the lower left corner of the screen

    2. Click on PROGRAMS

    3. Click on ACCESSORIES

    4. Click on NOTEPAD
       

  9. Copy and paste the following code into Notepad:

    1. Put your cursor in the box below and CLICK your left mouse button

    2. Press the CTRL and A key (this will select all of the code in the box)

    3. Press the CTRL and C key (this will copy the code)
       


  10. Now, COPY the code from Notepad and PASTE it into your web page

  11. You need to download the blinking graphic.  Click on the file below and it should ask you to SAVE the file. 

    Download the blinking graphic
     

  12. After you download the file, you need to Unzip it. 

  13. Now, copy these files to your website's directory.

  14. You are now done. Go back to the normal view mode. The web page should look like the image at the bottom of this page.

  15. Test the page to see if it works. You should see the red numbers start to count.

  16. To change the size of the numbers:

    1. Click once on the middle of the empty box

    2. The box should now be highlighted (or have dots around it signaling that the box has been selected). Now, format this the same way you would format the font size of any other text.
       

 

 

The counter below is your page should look like this:

 

   

 

Did you know that over 150,000 people die every day?

 

On average, every time this blinks

 someone passes into eternity

It has been estimated that only 7% of the world's population has accepted the Biblical plan of salvation.  Even if this research is wrong and the number is 75%, that still means that over 38,000 people are going to Hell every day.  Clearly, there is still much that needs to be done to bring the lost to Christ.  The counter above shows the estimated average number of people who have died since this counter was opened.  To learn more about this, click on the following:

The spiritual needs of the world

BibleHelp.org/signal.htm

The world's death rate

BibleHelp.org/mortality.htm