Bottom
The bottom area completes the webpage and tidies things up. It is also a terrific place to put code that needs to go on every single webpage, but is not necessarily seen by visitors.
Let's look at this code. In HomeSite, go to the "includes" folder and open up the file called "bottom.inc.php".
The first line says "<center>". Since the bottom area goes across the entire webpage, this tag will center everything across the bottom.
The next line "<!--- Start Google Referral Code --->" indicates the starting of the long bar of advertisements from Google. Like the other Google items we have put in for demonstration, if you don't want this line, or want to use your own, replace it or delete it. The end of this code is indicated by the "<!--- End Google Referral Code --->" line.
The next line contains two "<br>" tags to give a line of spacing between the Google Referrals and the next line.
The next line is just a line of text. It says "Copyright © 2008 My Website Name". NNotice how the copyright symbol is written as "©" but the actual code is "©". This code tells the computer to create a copyright symbol using the html code ©.
The next two line "<!--- Start Google Analytics --->" and "<!--- End Google Analytics --->" indicate a good place to put in your Google Analytics code.
What is Google Analytics? Well, Google Analytics is an absolutely terrific hit counter that monitors the traffic to a website. It will not only tell how much traffic there is, it will also tell where that traffic came from. And the best part is that Google lets you use this service completely free of charge. You do have to make an account if you don't already have one, but that doesn't cost anything either. You can get your own Google Analytics Code at http://www.google.com/analytics.
And the last line "</center>" stops centering the bottom area.
Ok. Upload the new bottom file and see how it looks.
