How to Build an Online Survey with Google Docs
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Sure, you can build some simple online surveys, but if you want to do something really sophisticated, you need to know how to program, right? Wrong. Google Docs makes it easy to build some very elegant online surveys. Keep reading to learn how to create an online survey using this popular and versatile web-based application.
Online surveys are useful on the Internet because they provide opportunities for users to share their views and be counted. Aside from that, those who analyze surveys can get insights from the opinions expressed on the survey.
The interactive surveys available online often give results to viewers showing how many of those surveyed answered a particular way. This may not be entirely scientific, but it satisfies curiosity.
You can see surveys almost everywhere on big and useful websites. Surveys can help users make decisions. A survey of top movies, for example, can help you decide whether or not to watch a particular movie. A survey that covers area restaurants can help you decide whether to try that new Mexican place.
It seems, however, that you can only see these types of website features on bigger sites. You can not see this too often in blogs; currently Blogger Beta has some polls, but they are not as extensive as the ones you can see at the big sites.
This leads us to wonder how we can create an online survey and still be able to analyze useful data. Of course you can create surveys using web site scripting such as PHP and ASP, but these languages are not friendly to most online bloggers who are not so technically inclined.
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