Course Web Site Development: Additional Website Components: Miscellaneous: Web Polls

Web Polls allow you to gather informal information from your website visitors.  For example, you may choose to have a running poll on your site that asks users how they feel about the design of your pages or the content contained on your website.  All good Web Poll systems give you the ability to view basic statistics about the responses, and some even capture responses for future use [such as the ability to have responses calculated and imported into a database program like Microsoft Access.]

Listed below are a number of Web Poll systems that have been tested on TCNJ homepages.  Simply click on the link adjacent to the description of a resource to get an in-depth look at how the program works and how to incorporate it into your own website.

Poll System	Description
ALX Poll	The ALX Poll system is a free service that allows you to create web polls directly from the ALX website.  It does not offer too many features, but the simplicity of the program is a major selling point.
USS Form Generator	The User Support Services Form Generator may also be used to create web polls!  The major advantage of using the Form Generator is that you can "capture" responses and then manipulate them in a program like Microsoft Access or SPSS/SAS.