[Hidden-tech] Web-based Questionnaire

[B. Kimo Lee]

Hi Annamarie,

I think the scope of your project depends upon what you mean by  
"summarized". If you just need a multipage form that formats the  
answers and sends the data as text in an email, yes, that's fairly  
straightforward forms work.

If you need the data analyzed based on some kind of subjective  
criteria then that would be an entirely different kind of project.

In the case of Likert Scale questions, this might start with the  
dynamic creation of graphics illustrating the positioning of the  
subject's answers along a horizontal line -- from Strongly Agree to  
Strongly Disagree.

If you needed to then summarize and analyze groups of answers, that  
would combine programming with some kind of sociological knowledge of  
the subject matter, which I assume is your "thing".

Longstory short, you could look for people with PHP or ASP, and CSS  
skills to start and maybe a designer to lay it out so it looks nice.  
How far you take the data analysis and the presentation of it is up to  
you and your budget.

Hope this helps.

Good luck,
Kimo



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On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Annamarie Pluhar wrote:

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> HI all,
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> No one answered my question (i'll repeat it below). Does that mean  
> that no one knows how to do what I'm asking? OR that it's so obvious  
> it's not worth commenting on? - or maybe I posted on a bad day?
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> Hi all,
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> Maybe someone on this list has some good ideas for me.
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> I have a Word Press blog (sharinghousing.com) to which I would like  
> to add a page that would contain a questionnaire. Most of the  
> questions are Likkert scale. This part might be easy - but for the  
> fact that I want the results of the user to be summarized for the  
> user - and then have the user send the result to themselves - email  
> most likely.  All the freebie software I've seen (sourceforge.net,  
> freshmeat.net, word press plug ins) as well as the commercial  
> software on the net are happy to do the questionnaire part but the  
> data isn't summarized for the user.
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> I'm thinking that this should be easy to program. Is that true?  But  
> I don't know what skill set I would be looking for. I haven't  
> storyboarded the thing yet, because I think I need to know what is  
> needed.
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> Thoughts? Advice?
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> Thanks!
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