I am a big fan of online polls, as you may have seen in previous posts. I believe it adds a level of interactivity to the person reading the post and allows me to find out your feelings/ opinions about something too.

I have been using pollhost.com for my poll service. It is a simple/ effective free service but what I don’t like about it is the fact that it redirects you away from my blog when you vote or want to see a result, it is ugly & can’t be customized, the poll can’t be changed once it is made and it also has a limitation of how many polls you can put online (15).

I have since found another free poll service that gives me everything Pollhost didn’t have and more — it is called Polldaddy.

Some of the excellent features and benefits:

• Once polls are made, it can be modified/ edited at anytime.
• A date can be specified to close the poll.
• You can customize the look of your poll to your hearts content (with CSS) or choose from 11 different skin styles.
• When you create a poll in your Polldaddy account, you will get some HTML code. You can paste this code into the HTML of your website or blog where you want your poll to appear. Any changes done on the poll through your Polldaddy login page will be updated automatically on your blog post.
• You can create a widget so that you only have to complete the above process once and insert polls automatically from the Polldaddy page e.g. like MisterLinky.
• It automatically generates a RSS feed for the specific poll so one can track its results.
• Once your poll is in place, every time a visitor uses your poll, the vote is processed asynchronously, so your website page does not need to reload and your user will not be redirected away from your website. It’s all javascript so those who can’t see flash or have flash blocked can still use it.
• No limitations on the number of polls you can make.
• There are no ads!

See an example of a poll I created below. I love the skin!