Injecting custom code in Microsoft FrontPage

Example for adding the Hitcounter script so that Microsoft FrontPage doesn't complain or manipulate your code upon publishing your site.

FrontPage installation:
In order to properly install our website counter icon on your website using FrontPage you will need to follow one of the 2 procedures below. Otherwise FrontPage will change the HTML code for the hitcounter icon, causing the icon to function improperly.

Method 1
One way to add the Tag with Frontpage is as follows:

1) Open the html page (*.htm, *.html, *.asp, or whatever) and put the cursor where you want the counter to appear

2) In the main menu, choose Insert->Advanced->HTML... to open up the HTML Markup dialog

3) Paste the second line (the non-comment line) of the Tag into the dialog as shown below in Figure 1 and click OK.

4) Save the file (in the menu File->Save, or press CTRL-S)

<!-- webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan -->
<img src="/cgi-bin/counter/Count.cgi?df=loginid.homepage">
<!-- webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->

The opening and closing webbot comments seem to prevent "file:" from being added when the page is opened and then saved in Frontpage.

Method 2
The other way to essentially accomplish the same thing is to open the HTML source file in a text editor such as Notepad and add the webbot comment lines manually. Before the Tag, add:

<!-- webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan -->

And after the Tag, add:

<!-- webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->

So that your HTML source looks like:

<!-- webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan -->

<!-- webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->