Add a poll to your website

Polls can allow your users to share their opinion in a simple and effective way. You can run polls on anything you like; from suggestions for what you should add next to your website, through to polls on specific topics on your website. Polls can be incredibly useful tools to change the focus of your website, or just fun diversions to add interactivity to your pages. Whatever your reason for adding a poll, there are several free services that you can use, but we recommend www.alxnet.com. This guide will focus on using one of these polls with your 350pages.

STEP 1:
Visit www.alxnet.com/services/poll/, and click on the "Free Sign Up Now" button. Click on the Next button, and you will be taken to a name and address form which you should fill in accordingly. After this you will be given your login information and will have to choose a password and secret question (just in case you ever need to retrieve a lost password). Complete the signup by clicking on the Continue button. You will be sent two e-mails; one as a confirmation of your signup, and another confirming your username details.
 
Once you have received your account information, visit toolmanager.alxnet.com and login with the details provided.

STEP 2:
Click on the "New" button for the Poll, and enter a tool name. This name only serves as a description for managing your facilities, and once you have submitted this, it will appear on your InterActives screen.
 
Click on the edit button to begin editing the poll. There are a number of features and customization options that you can change in order to streamline your poll to the exact way you want it. Once you have crafted your poll to your chosen specification, click on the HTML-Code button. This will present you with a block of HTML under the 'Poll Address' heading that you can fit into your site where you like to present the poll. Copy the HTML code, and then log into your 350pages and edit the page you would like to place it on.

STEP 3:
When you are in the page editor, hover your pointer over an item near to where you wish to place the poll, and then click on the Plus button to insert a new object. Choose paragraph, and then click either above or below. The paragraph editor will appear, and from there click on the HTML tab. Replace the default text with the HTML code, then click OK, and then click on the tick under Page Controls and save your page as usual. Your Poll will then be live.