How to Add a Free Poll to Your Web Page

I am needing to ask my clients what features they want in the future, so I needed to create a poll. I remember just a year or two ago when I wanted to do this it was costly and difficult. Well, for me anyway, maybe I didn't look in the right place, or maybe technology is moving faster and thus making it easier to offer things like this for free.

I found a great site that offers free polls to put on your website, blog or MySpace. It's called PollDaddy.com.

It's free. That rocks.

They've got other products I'm sure they'd like people to purchase, but for the time being, the polls are free.

You create your poll by submitting a question and all the answers, then you choose the skin and they give you the javascript, flash code or a direct link.

You can randomize the questions for each viewer, block multiple votes by IP, allow for multiple answers, and even use CSS to style your own look. Their styles aren't bad, though, so you can make a poll and post it to your site in about 5 minutes.

Once the "Vote" button is pressed, the poll shows the results right there. It's really a great app.

Here's quotes from their site:

What is PollDaddy?
PollDaddy is an online tool, which allows you to create free polls and place them on your website, blog, MySpace, hi5, Friendster or Xanga account or anywhere online that you can paste a bit of JavaScript or Flash!


Polldaddy Features
PollDaddy is simple and flexible, allowing you to customize our styles to match your website or email campaign. Deliver your poll through JavaScript, flash, direct link, widget or RSS to survey your user's opinions.


100% Free polls!
PollDaddy is free for you to use and enjoy, we hope that while using PollDaddy, you might take the time to check out our other products too.

There is no advertising on any of our polls, and we never redirect your users away from your website or blog, so if you want to start using our free polls today, then its time to sign up!

Here's a poll I created just for fun:

Fun!

Hope this helps.

What do you think?
1. Ever used a poll on your site?
2. Did people use it?
3. Were you surprised by the results?