core.polls - Core.web

You know what this is, right? Everyone seems to have a poll on their site these days, so ask yourself if you really need it. What? We’re actually suggesting you NOT to buy something we have? Well, yes and no. Polls are great when your site has a steady user base, and you’re able to produce interesting questions. In that case you’ll definitely benefit from polls. If that is not (yet) the case, they might do more harm than good. Imagine a poll that’s sticking on your site for 2 months and it says: 17 people have voted so far… Get the picture?

core.polls allows you to manage all the aspects of an unlimited number of polls; create new polls, add or remove the poll’s choices, allow or disallow voting, disable multiple votes based on the combination of IP address, cookie information and a couple of other tricks. Visitors can cast their votes, review current poll results and browse the archive of previous polls.

There is also an advanced version of core.polls which allows you to create multiquestion polls and to gather a larger set of information from every user. This variant can be used for other purposes such as sweepstakes, or larger user surveys. In this case, the visitors answer the questions one by one, and enter personal details at the end. You can then select random winner(s) from the pool of visitors that completed the poll.