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Could anyone recommend a good online survey builder with a web-based interface that lets you easily create and offer customized surveys to visitors?
We would also like it to create summarised, detailed and individual survey results. And to be able to rebrand the software.
However if you have any experience in implementing such a system and you are reading this request, please could you point me to any general help i.e PHP scripts and tutorials that discuss this subject? and/or any pitfalls that i should avoid?
Many thanks for all your help
Alina
It seems simple, but coming up with a db design to handle every possible question format, and a good web based tool for building the survey...ugh...it would have been much cheaper to buy a ready made app.
If you did, which implementations did you look at? Are they any free implementations out there, that i could look at, do you know?
I have found UCCASS which is a free implementation - but have not had time to look at it in depth. Have you or anyone reading this, tried using this impementation? I would like very much to hear your views on this or any other implementations that you know of.
Many thanks for all your help
Alina
Anyhow, UCCASS looks ok...it's not as powerful (or pretty) as the system I created, but it's not bad.
I was also stuck using asp...ugh...we got M$ shoved so far up our <beep> here, when management talks the first words from their mouth are "Where do you want to go today?" hehe not that this has any bearing on what a system can do...
I strongly urge you NOT to use a survey hosting service where the software, questions, and answers are stored on their servers. You want control over your data, and you don't neccessarily want them selling your results...you never know.
Anyhow, look at what your requirements are, the best way to go about that is to look at all the surveys you possibly can, and see if the system can duplicate the questions. Some questions get very complex (tables, including graphics, etc), and most survey systems can't handle them.
Also check out the reports that are offered by the software, and wether you can create custom reports to meet your needs, as invariably, your needs will change, so being able to create better reports is always a bonus.
Software is generally less expensive and more flexable but a bigger pain the butt. ASP's tend to try to force everyone into their idea of what a survey should be but are much easier to use.
For software, you can get some free packages from sourceforge and find plenty of paid ones at hotscripts.
For ASP, depending on what you need you can look at zoomerang a free solution, surveymonkey (powerful very low cost), insightexpress (can provide respondents, mid range price), at high end number of solutions that come with trained market research help.
When I used ASP in my post I was referring to Active Server Pages
figment88 is using ASP to refer to Application Service Providers
Just a heads up in case some readers are "acronymically" challenged
