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Features

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:06:16 -0500

All the membership levels of QuickVote enjoy the following features and benefits: 1) Unlimited concurrent Polls; 2) Various Chart Formats; 3) Brand-transparency; 4) Unlimited Templates and more.

QuickVote 2 Released!

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:02:06 -0500

We know we are over-due, but let us still be proud to present to you QuickVote 2 - an all-enhanced edition of original QuickVote. What's new? Everything! Enhancements include: * More Charting Options. Now in addition to original pie charts, you can customize the results view with Vertical Bar Charts, 3d Bar Charts as well as 3d cylinders. The last two chart types can be customized with X & Y axis and ticks. (see [Screenshots][]); * Enhanced user interface. We enhanced the user interface with more user-friendly and intuitive controls. * Fast Response Was it slow before? Then you must try it now. Being a complete re-write, **QuickVote 2** is now on a new and much powerful platform; * Enhanced templates. Through the use of new template tags now we give you access to cycled-colors of the charts. This will enable you to create custom chart legends. (see the [Screenshots][]); * Sorted results. Before results were displayed in their originally created order. Now results can be displayed in either ascending or descending order, configurable per-poll basis. * New Homepage. Now QuickVote has its own domain name: [www.QVote.net][home]. Do not forget to update your Bookmarks. Free and Seamless Upgrade! ------------------------------------------- Upgrade will take place on Tuesday, November 21st at 00:00 Eastern Standard Time (+5GMT). Every possible effort is being made to make sure the upgrade will be seamless. You will receive another notification once the upgrade is complete. Thank you for your continued patronage. Questions or concerns? ---------------------------------- Please feel free to e-mail us if you have any concerns regarding the upgrade. E-mail: [info@qvote.net][email] [screenshots]: http://www.qvote.net/intro/screen_shots.html [home]: http://www.qvote.net/ [email]: mailto:info@qvote.net

Contact Us

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:28:10 -0500

Currently we provide support through Skype and and E-mail. If you don't already have Skype, we suggest you download it from [skype.com][]. It's FREE! Skype: [qvote.net][callto] E-Mail: [info@qvote.net][mailto] [skype.com]: http://www.skype.com/ [callto]: callto:qvote.net [mailto]: mailto:info@qvote.net

Why QuickVote?

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:17:09 -0500

By subscribing to QuickVote you will basically be outsourcing part of your web site's functionally to us. But this will prove to be one of the safest and by far the most const-effective business decision you have ever made. Why? 1. **14-day free trial** period will let you try out all the features of QuickVote, to their fullest. Trial period will not enforce any limitations. If you are not satisfied, canceling the service is as easy as the registration was. So what do you have to loose? 2. **Cost effective**. Having a similar application developed in-house can cost you thousands. Maintainance costs of the software will add-up to even more. Because we serve many clients using few platforms, we were able to spread the cost, thus providing you with the same service for much less. How much less? Only **$4.95/month**. 3. **Control your Cost**. With custom, in-house developed solutions there is no way to know for sure how much development and maintainance will cost you over time. Bug fixes, feature addons, trouble-shooting costs can be expensive and unpredictable. But with QuickVote, you will know exactly how much it will cost you; in a month, in the qurter, or even two years from today - matter of simple math. 4. **Reduced Risk**. Suppose you have a custom application developed in-house. If after a year you discover you will no longer need the functionality on your web site, you will not be able to recover the capital spent in developping it. But with QuickVote you can always stop the spending by simply canceling the service. You will have been charged for what you used.

Template Tags

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:55:21 -0500

This section summarizes all the dynamic template tags that are made available for templates. Although all of these variables may be used in all template types (i.e., form, result and archive), we tried to categorize them according to their most widely use. About the usage of tags ---------------------------------- All the tags described in this section are enclosed between [% and %] sequence of characters. For briefness the rest of this section does not mention nor display the proper use of tags. But when you see us talking about a tag poll.name, you should know that to use this tag, you have to insert it into your templates like so: [% poll.name %] The space between [% and the tag itself are insignificant, but case of the tags are important. Which means, poll.name, POLL.NAME and Poll.name are three different tags (of course, in our case, the latter two do not exist). The best way of learning about templates and template tags is to look in the source of default Quick Vote templates. All the template tags can be used in all the templates (both result and form as well as archive templates), unless noted otherwise. Poll details ---------------- * poll.question Name or the question assigned to this poll. * poll.description If you assigned description to your poll while creating it, you can use this tag to display the description in your templates. * poll.id Numeric unique ID of the poll, assigned by the system. * poll.result_link Link leading to the page that displays poll's results. * poll.result\_window\_width * poll.result\_window\_height Suggested width and height of the result window, respectively. This is usually handy if you plan to display your results in a window opened through JavaScript's window.open() method, in which case it may be preferable to have a window open of a certain size. Both of these tags are suggestive, and not always accurate. You may even have to hard-code the window sizes in the form templates without having to rely on these suggestive values. * poll.total_hits Displays number of total hits the poll accumulated. In other words, it's the sum of unique hits each option received. * chart.img Replaced with tag to display the result of the poll as a chart. The type of chart output for this tag is controlled from Quick Vote's control panel. * pie.img The same as chart.img, except this tag forces the result to be a pie chart, regardless of the settings in QuickVote's control panel * bars.img The same chart.img, except this tag forces the result to be vertical bars, regardless of the settings in QuickVote's control panel * cylinders.img The same as chart.img, except this tag forces the result to be vertical cylinder bars, regardless of the settings in QuickVote's control panel. * chart.src * pie.src * bars.src * cylinders.src Counterparts of the previous four tags. These are replaced with the URL of the respective charts. Handy if you wanted your tags displayed differently. Poll Options ------------------ Since each poll may have different number of options, templates offer a set of container tags to display all the options that a poll may have. This container tag starts with **[%FOREACH poll.choices%]** and ends with **[%END%]**. The case is important. Everything between these two tags will be repeated for each option. Following set of tags are available within this container: * option Replaced with the text of the option * id Numeric unique ID assigned by the system for this particular option. * color Hexadecimal color value assigned to each option. You can use this tag to color-code each option. Handy if you also wanted to display results chart with your form, so people know the result before they submit the poll. Go to the examples at the end of the section for ideas. * radio HTML Radio button generated for the option * checkbox HTML Checkbox generated for the option * hits Number of hits option has received * percentage Percentage value option's hits account for * bar.src URL of the colored bar, should you choose to express option's hits as a horizontal bar. This value can be used as following: * bar If the above example is all you need to display the bar chart, you might as well replace the previous example with just [% bar %], which generates the above tag for you. Other tags --------------- * form.action When you're writing your This way, then the user submits the form, the results will be displayed in a pop-up window, size of which will be governed by the values returned from poll.result_window_width and poll.result_window_height tags.

Template Types

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:48:39 -0500

Quick Vote offers three template types, namely form, result and archive templates. Following are the discription of individual template types and their use: * form These templates are used in generating a submittable form that is displayed to the public. Usually this form consists of radio/checkbox input fields, a button for casting the vote, button for viewing the results and a link to the archive. Some poll forms may also choose to include with this form the chart compiled of current poll results. * result These templates are used in generating results for the public either after they cast their vote, or when they choose to view the results of the poll. * archive These templates are used in generating the archive of previous polls and their results. Subsequent sections will go into details of tags that go into these templates.

Available Plans

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:08:29 -0500

* **Basic** This service plan allows for upto 5,000 page views a month (see below for the description of *Page Views*). This is best suited for most personal weblogs, small business, high schools and such. Even if you're not sure what your site's traffic is, you can still start off this Basic plan. If we discover you needed a higher service, you will be notified gentally so you can upgrade without interrupting your current service. * **Premier** Premier plan allows for upto 15,000 page views a month. This is best suited for some personal web logs and small businesses with higher traffic, most college and university departments' homepages. * **Heavy** Heavy plan caters for those sites with heavy traffic, such as news sites, mediaum to large businesses, community forums and such. What is a Page View? ------------------------------ Page view is the number of times a page is viewed. In our case, it's the number of visitors participated in your poll(s) **+** the number of times your poll's results were inquired. Just seeing your poll forms do not necessarily count for a page view. So ten people can see your forms. And if noone participates in them and triggers the system to process their votes, no Page View is generated for this exposure. If your Poll form's incorporate a dynamically generated charts that show the current poll report, each time that chart is loaded will also count for one Page View. It's better, and most often recommended that poll results are not displayed together with the Form.

What is QuickVote?

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:55:07 -0500

Quick Vote is a tool for web publishers to integrate Poll-like public survey system into their web sites. Quick Vote offers 100% customizable interface, making it a brand-transparent solution for web sites of all sorts. Its template system allows web authors to integrate all the aspects of the system with their existing content.

Chart with Legends

Quick Vote offers array of estethically appealing public reports, including vertical/horizontal bars, cylinders and pie charts. All the charts can be displayed in either plain or three dimensional view, tagged by results. Multi-combination reports are also possible. Access to chart colors through Template's tag now make it possible to generate fully customizable chart legends. You can see a sample of it in default Templates.

Free Trial

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:00:46 -0500

You can now test-drive full-featured QuickVote free for 14 full days. If you decide to keep it beyond this trial period, it starts at only $4⁹⁵/month.

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Screen Shots

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Custom Web Installation

Custom Results

How does QuickVote Work?

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:04:38 -0500

QuickVote works in the following easy steps. 1. Create Poll -------------------- Using a user-friendly, and well-tested interface create your poll. Polls consist of a question, and two or more options that your users will be prompted to choose from (see screenshot) 2. Install ------------- QuickVote will provide you with a code to insert into your Web Pages or HTML E-mails. You simply copy and paste this code (see screenshot of installed poll) 3. Interact --------------- Once your poll is installed, your users will be able to interact with the poll. When the poll is submitted, they will be displayed the poll results. How the results will be displayed, and the appearance of this screen is 100% customizable (see screenshot of a submitted poll) 4. Watch / Configure ------------------------------ Using QuickVote's user-friendly cockpit you will be able to watch your poll's result, or re-configure the Poll's options (see screenshot of a sample cockpit)