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June 1, 2004
New poll service a bust...
A helpful reader suggested that I try PollMonkey. So of course I did and compared it to Blogpolling which I am now using. The Poll Monkey guys obviously spent alot more money on design of their site and it is very pretty. The reason becomes immediately obvious when you keep getting pop-ups that try to upsell you t a $19.95 per month "pro" version. The basic version comes with 100 responses per month. I don't know if there is a limit to the number of polls you can have as I only set up one. Also some features are only available to pro users like security, HTML results, and e-mail results. Funny, when did security become a "premium" feature? Well you have to draw your feature line somewhere. So I set up a poll and copied the javascript into my blog template and hit rebuild. Nothing showed up. Big white space. I clicked on a couple other links, then came back and the pool was there. So there is some problem with their server getting the picture there quick enough, or being in sync with my browser reload or somthing. So I make my selection and hit "vote". The poll goes away and the white space returns. No results. After a couple other links and multiple re-loads the results miraculously appear. But then they won't go away again.
BlogPolling gave me none of these problems. Sometimes simplicity is the best answer. I am staying with Blogpolling for now.
Posted by Martin at June 1, 2004 10:43 AM
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