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Ever thought of adding a simple one-question survey to your website?
We’ve had many such requests since we first launched a version of Snap for the web and now we’re able to offer you software specifically to generate polls…
Snap polls before today…
Some might say that Snap can already handle a poll. That’s true to a limited extent; it is possible to set up a one question poll in Snap, then save the HTML code, but you do need to be careful. Snap is normally assuming that you’re going to be generating a multi question survey so it’ll assume that you want question numbers, so you’ll have to turn off this function. You’ll also have to be careful with the font sizes on the titles and questions, as well as any graphical images, because you’ll want your poll to take up only a small area on your web page.
At the end of design process, Snap will generate an HTML file, but it’s unlikely to be less than 50K in size and will consist of probably 100 lines of HTML code. However, it will be in a state to be handed to a web developer to embed into a web page. You may need further work to improve the appearance in terms of a border, and you’ll certainly need to avoid a “Thank you” page appearing after the respondent has voted.
When it finally comes to analysing the results, you will certainly need to download the data back into Snap before you can produce even the simplest of tables or charts. By necessity of course, you will also have to have a full license for Snap Professional software.
Snap today… The launch of SnapShot Poll
I may have been sounding a little gloomy but that’s probably because I’ve spent the last few weeks previewing Snap’s new software that makes the task a whole lot easier….
Today, we’re launching SnapShot Poll, a simple solution to the demand for a one question poll and with analysis already built in. Oh, by the way, it’s FREE and you don’t even need to be a subscriber to Snap to make use of it. For local community organisations, charities etc, it has to be the simplest way of all to generate a quick questionnaire.
SnapShot Poll can be used in a couple of ways. Firstly, it can be used as a way of spicing up your website with a quick topical poll that provides some interaction with the visitors to your site. Secondly, it can be used as part of a research project into the effectiveness of your website.
If you’re using the Poll to spice up your website, your only decision is to decide on the question you’re going to use – should it be a topical / newsworthy question or should it be a question that’s related to your own website? For those wanting a topical / newsworthy question, Snap Surveys has generated a series of public polls so that you can access questions that have already been written for you.
If you’re using the one question Poll software as a research tool, you don’t necessarily need to plan out all the questions you’re going to ask, before you start. You can decide where the first question should appear, monitor the responses and then plan out the next question in terms of location and text.
Imagine that you’re a company selling tennis equipment and you want to find out just how easy it is to place an order and pay for the goods. The home page is unlikely to be the right place, as this is the page to which everybody goes and unless they’ve visited your site before, they won’t know what’s involved in ordering sports goods. Your first poll is probably best positioned on a page once the order has been placed and the payment has been received. Perhaps it should be part of the page thanking them for their business. It might be best to ask a question such as… “Were there any areas of placing your order that caused a problem?”. The answers could be “Selecting a tennis racket”, “Comparing tennis rackets”, “Choosing delivery”, “Paying by credit/debit card”, etc. All of these replies would be set to multiple response.
Once replies start coming in, you can then decide what your next question should be and where it should be placed. It might be wise to leave the first poll active until you’ve received 200-300 replies. Then if your customers are experiencing difficulty in the payment process, your next step could be to devise a question specifically on that area and then place it on a page immediately following the completion of the payment stage.
So what are the actual steps involved in designing your first Poll and what will it look like?
A Poll in 5 easy steps
Step 1 – Enter your question
Start by entering the text of your question, followed by the labels to your answers.
You can control exactly how many answers you’ll accept to the question and whether any of the answers are exclusive. In our example, “No problem at all” has been set as Exclusive to avoid the respondent being able to select this answer as well as several others.
The order in which the answers are displayed can also be controlled. In our example, we’ll leave it in the same order each time it is displayed. In other situations, questions can be randomised.
Even at this stage, you can preview your SnapShot poll, and you’ll notice that a default style has been applied to your question, producing a very professional result. The remaining steps enable you to add a few refinements….
Step 2 – Add a title
At its simplest, just add the Title of the poll that’s going to appear at the top.
If you want to add more detail, you can add both a description and keywords to enable others to locate your poll, should you decide to add it to the library.
Step 3 – Add a picture
If you choose to include an image, SnapShot Poll, by default, automatically adds a standard question mark to each poll, but you can easily select one of the other 20 pictures from the gallery provided.
As an alternative, you can create your own image and upload it to your poll.
Step 4 – Alter the look and feel
SnapShot Poll provides you with a default colour layout and this may well be sufficient for your needs. However, you’re free to change any of the colours together with the text that makes up the instructions on completing the poll.
You’re virtually ready to go….but first, simply click on 
to save all your handywork.
Step 5 - Copy and paste the code to your website
SnapShot Poll will now automatically generate HTML code for you.
The final step is to copy and paste the half a dozen lines of code and drop them straight into your website.
What do the result look like?
Once the poll is in place and the replies start coming in, the analysis is immediately available and is presented in the form of a bar chart. For those of you wanting to access the data from your PC, it can easily be exported in a format accessible to Snap.
As I said earlier, the new software is now freely available, so visit www.snapsurveys.com/poll to get up and running.
Happy Polling!
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