Can't get dumb webcounter working

[J. W. McCall]

Barry Sprajc wrote:

> Tyler's correct.
> 
> You'll want to check with those hosting your web site, they usually have
> particular directories in your home directory where you'll put your scripts,
> etc...
> 
> Then, you just need to put the correct HTML code in your document.

 From the FAQs and help at my shell account (freeshell.org) it says I 
don't need a "cgi-bin" directory or anything like that; I can run 
scripts from anywhere.

As far as the correct HTML code...sorry if this is a dumb question, but 
what exactly would that HTML code be?  I saw something about "<!-- 
exec"command here" -->" but that didn't seem to work.  I've never called 
a script from an HTML document.  I guess that's what I'm trying to 
figure out.

Thanks,

J. W. McCall