Here’s how easy it is to create polls in Polldaddy: (Check out the screencast at the bottom of this page for a video tour of how to create a poll.)
Login in to your Polldaddy dashboard. Click on the big blue, Create a new… dropdown and select Poll:
Now let’s name the poll, set up the possible answers, and select some important options. To make a poll public, check the Make poll public checkbox. Note that the public poll checkbox and the ability to keep a poll private are available to paid accounts only. All polls created in free accounts are public by default.
By default, possible answers appear in the order in which you entered them. We want to shake things up, so we’ve checked the Randomize the order checkbox to serve the possible answers in random order for different visitors. Finally, we’re going to let our respondents submit their own answer, if they can’t find their favorite cookie on our list:
Now that you’ve got your poll question and possible answers all set, scroll down the page a little to choose a style for the poll. There’s several nifty styles to choose from. Be sure to choose a size for your poll widget:
Before we release our question into the wild, we just need to select some final options on when to close the poll, whether or not to use a Language Pack, whether or not to show results, allow repeat voters, comments, and sharing. When you’re done, be sure to click on the blue Create Poll button:
Now you can choose where to embed your poll. There’s an option to embed your poll using JavaScript, or you can post it to Facebook, on Twitter, WordPress, create a direct link to it, embed it on Posterous, MySpace, Ning, as a FlashPoll or within an email.
Here’s what you’ll see if you choose to tweet your poll. You’ll get a chance to edit your tweet before you send it:
Here’s what you’ll see if your choose to embed your poll into your WordPress site. Copy the shortcode in the dialog box and paste it into a WordPress.com site post. If you have a WordPress.org site, be sure that you’ve got the Polldaddy plugin installed.
You may also be interested in how to place a poll on your WordPress sidebar.
That was easy. Got time for a quick poll?
Check out our Creating a Poll screencast:
