About this Article This document is part of www.WebVisitor.info, a free detailed, real-time website statistics analysis tool. It is available at various cost levels, including a free version and is quick and easy to setup on any website. Visit www.WebVisitor.info to find out more and sign-up to start tracking visitors to your website now.

User Guide: Customising (Branding the Stat-Viewer)

Particular interest to website developers is the ability to customise the WebVisitor.info Stat-Viewer so that it is branded with your corporate image. This is two free text areas, one for the header and one for the footer, for you to place custom html into. So you can include Logo’s, hyperlinks and even your own banner advertising program if you wish. When combined with the Customer User account type (see User Account Types) WebVisitor.info allows you to supply a complete branded web-site statistics package to your customers, all of which can be seamlessly integrated into your own company website.

This document details how to customise the Stat-Viewer, and shows some examples. Also described is how to create your own branded login page which you can place onto your own company’s website.

Who is eligible for custom branding?

Custom branding can be setup for all Accounts, simply login as an Administrator (See User Account Types) and go to the “Company Account > Customise System” menu option. The only restriction is that you have at least Upgrade Level 1 (See Managing the Log) or higher.

Therefore if you have a free account then you cannot perform any customisations. This is because one of the customisation options is to disable all banner advertising, and as this is the means by which we fund the free account this option is unavailable for the free account level. Upgrading to level one is a low cost option that provides you with additional log space and also the ability to perform the rebranding customisations and disable all site advertising and so is well worth considering.

Customising the Stat-Viewer

Customising your account does require you to know some basic HTML and is only possible to WebVisitor.info users who have an Administrator User access account (see User Account Types).

Once you have logged in go to the “Company Account > Customise System” option, this can be seen in the diagram below:

There are three options on this form:

1. Disable all advertisements. This check box allows you to disable all the advertisements from within the WebVisitor.info Stat-Viewer. This includes the top banner ad and the advertising in the foot of the left hand website navigation. Check this box to hide all advertisements.

2. Enable Custom Header. This is a checkbox and a free HTML text area. When the “Enable Custom Header” checkbox is ticked the HTML you place in the free HTML text area will replace the top banner of the WebVisitor.info Stat-Viewer. So in here you can place HTML for your Company Logo, hyperlinks to other pages on your website and even your own banner advertising if you wish.

3. Enable Custom Footer. This is a checkbox and free HTML text area. When the “Enable Custom Footer” checkbox is ticked the HTML you place in the free text area will replace the footer of the WebVisitor.info Stat-Viewer. In here place any footer HTML you want, typically links, contact information etc.


Once you have saved your customisations when any users under your account login, including those marked as ‘Customers’ will be presented with your customised Branded Stat-Viewer.


Using these it is possible to make the Stat-Viewer match your company’s identity as can be seen in the examples below:

Creating a Customised Login

Equally important to creating a seamless experience for your users is to place a login panel right on your own website. That way your customers do not even have to visit WebVisitor.info to login to view their stats in your own branded Stat-Viewer, though obviously we don’t mind if they do.

This is a relatively simple affair. Just place the following code in the appropriate place in the HTML of the page where you wish the login panel to appear:

        <iframe 
            id="Iframe1" 
            src="http://sv1.webvisitor.info/SignIn/Default.aspx?NoSignup=false&NoPWLookup=false" 
            width="260px" 
            height="400px" 
            frameborder="0"
        ></iframe>
    

There are a couple of options with this. You may notice that there are two query string parameters that you can pass into the sign-in page, “NoSignup” and “NoPWLookup”.

NoSignup

If this option is set to true the “Create New Account” link will be hidden. This allows you to prevent your customers creating new Accounts within WebVisitor.info.

NoPWLookup

When a password lookup is performed the email comes from WebVisitor.info and is branded as coming from us also. So you may want to disable this functionality. Set this parameter to true to hide the “Lost Password” option in the login panel.

If you require assistance, or have any questions about customisations you can reach us at Support@WebVisitor.info and we will do our best to help.

About this Article This document is part of www.WebVisitor.info, a free detailed, real-time website statistics analysis tool. It is available at various cost levels, including a free version and is quick and easy to setup on any website. Visit www.WebVisitor.info to find out more and sign-up to start tracking visitors to your website now.