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by ftse • 17 years ago

23 29 17 years ago

foosurvey.com

mannicken• 17 years ago

Looks like a placeholder for domain. Especially the right two columns. Just an impression of ad-filled web-site.

slig• 17 years ago

Please don't use checks to emulate options buttons behavior.

Hexstream• 17 years ago

This inspired me to try with Javascript turned off, and sure enough I can choose multiple options. There was no obvious error so I assume my all-choices answer was processed.

Some sites can justify breaking if javascript is off, but not yours.

edit: Additionally it seems HTML is not escaped at all. I should have used something more obvious than just <b>ing the comments...

ftse8• 17 years ago

Thanks for the helpful input... the page is fixed now ;-)

ftse8• 17 years ago

The checkboxes will soon be turned into radio buttons.

rnernento• 17 years ago

Design - I like all the blues and the layout, the yellows and the ipod seem a bit dark to me.

Functionality seems perfect to me but I would need more time with it.

As far as the concept I'm not sure - polls don't seem that exciting to me but maybe you know something I don't.

ashleyw• 17 years ago

The pricing could soon get out of hand — a 20 question survey by 500 people would cost $200; who'd pay that?

ftse8• 17 years ago

I'll probably have the price taper off when it hits the high end.

brfox• 17 years ago

In my head, a survey has more than one question, while a single question is a poll. So, the name of the site made it seem like you'd be competing with surveymonkey, which would be a good thing.

mkuhn• 17 years ago

Just a note on design. I have an unnecessary Scrollbar with Firefox on Linux (Ubuntu 9.04). Oh yeah and I would suggest you create a Favicon, the green check comes to mind first.

ftse8• 17 years ago

I'll investigate that.

The favicon is uploaded.

chris242• 17 years ago

It looks like you have incorrect permissions set for the favicon. /favicon.ico returns a 403 error for me.

hwijaya• 17 years ago

I like it. It's clean and minimum-usable.

Hmm..as of using it, maybe if you can make it like a widget where i can link it to my site, that will be more usable (at least for me) in terms of setting up polling system.

ftse8• 17 years ago

There is an 'embed' link to allow you to do this. Typically, I find it's broken at the moment, but should be fixed soon!

tomerico• 17 years ago

Some feedback.

Remove the categories pane completely. Replace checkboxes with buttons - clicking on them will cast the vote. Use the common categories from Digg / Stackoverflow and others (Top surveys, Controversial, Upcoming)

huhtenberg• 17 years ago

Overall - quite nice, but needs simplifying and tidying up.

Get rid of "win iPhone" insert. It takes away more from the site than it actually adds to it. Also the "Tags" column solves the problem that I'm not sure exists. But it sure does clutter the page. I'd get rid of it too until you are certain that the user experience is (dramatically) improved by having it there.

Zarathu• 17 years ago

I quite like it. Of course, it's still a "new" site, so you have a lot of work to do.

Nice design.

kbrower• 17 years ago

1 bug: When I click sign up it says log in as the title of the box.

1 annoyance: the results page took ~10seconds to render. Mostly because you are using many copies of a fixed size image to render the bars. Why not resize a single image or just make it a html element?

ftse8• 17 years ago

The annoyance: this will be fixed. I'll add it to the list. :)

roryokane• 17 years ago

I think you should move the "flag as spam" flag icon away from next to the category name; the current position made me think the flag was either a property of the category or a button that would let me flag it like in email, that is, save it for later.

csomar• 17 years ago

I have voted on a survey and this referred me to google.com is that normal?

gommm• 17 years ago

Why do I get redirected to google after filing a survey?

ks• 17 years ago

You should use the <label> element so that you can select the option by clicking the text.

RossM• 17 years ago

Can't stress this enough. Much easier target to click than a tiny box.

chris242• 17 years ago

Why do you have such a large space dedicated to categories when most don't have any surveys in them (yet)? It'd be more useful if there were either less categories or a count beside each category link displaying the number of surveys within each given category.

thatguycheese• 17 years ago

When clicking on "private" and then canceling out of the box that pops up, "log in" changes to "og in." A minor issue, but an issue none-the-less.

taitems• 17 years ago

It says "Survey has been deleted" on the homepage, even though I didn't do anything.

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