What's the best way to make a poll for a personal website?

[blurredvision]

What would be the nicest looking and easiest way to create a small poll on a personal website? Flash, Java, or what other options do I have?

I really like the one on ESPN.com, and it is made with Flash 6. I'd like to have it where the user clicks an answer, then it automatically shows the results without any popups or page refreshes.

 

[chiwawa626]

Poll script if you have a cgi bin or php. Or a third party poll host 🙂

 

[blurredvision]

Found this page.

Seems to be good reading for my subject in case anyone else is interested.

 

[notfred]

perl or php

 

[blurredvision]

Found a decent one for those interested.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: WoodchuckCharlie
Found a decent one for those interested.

Awesome, thanks!

Dumb question, how do you install these Perl and PHP scripts?

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: notfred
perl or php

or asp, javascript, python, ASP.net, <insert any other scripting language here>

 

[numark]

Originally posted by: Beau

Originally posted by: notfred
perl or php

or asp, javascript, python, ASP.net, <insert any other scripting language here>

You can't have a poll script using Javascript 😉

If you have access to PHP on your server, I highly recommend that. It has a smaller learning curve for those who just want to learn how to do one thing. Of course, I'm probably biased because that's what I program in for my pages.

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: numark

Originally posted by: Beau

Originally posted by: notfred
perl or php

or asp, javascript, python, ASP.net, <insert any other scripting language here>

You can't have a poll script using Javascript 😉

Sure you can. Not client side javascript, server side 😉