Something deep or witty here.....
Yesss! I have succeeded in adding my counter to the footer of this page.
All's good. Oh, this is what this looks like when I edit the page.
Thank you Dmitri, owner of http://gpxfiles.googlepages.com for the explanations.
I have to say that I lucked out and went one step further: I actually used IE to add my visible Statcounter script. 
Hehehehe!
Why, oh why don't I have more patience? I could probably make a nice page, right? Ok, maybe not all that nice judging by my choices of colors....
So let's try this.