How To Make A Poll in Joomla 1.5

December 27, 2010 / Content Management Systems FAQs

This tutorial will help you to successfully make a poll for your website
Making a Poll in Joomla 1.5 :

You can add a ‘poll’ page to your Joomla website. Lets assume you want a feedback about your website from the site visitors. You can easily make a poll page as shown in the steps below:

  1. Go to the Joomla admin area, go to components> Polls. Select ‘new’ from the menu.
    You can name the poll ‘Please tell us how you like our website’
  2. Now, on the left menu, you can put in the options eg: ‘Needs Improvement, Not Bad, Good, Superb..etc’
  3. Save your poll. Now you have to publish it in your website.
    Go to the menu at the top right. Check the ‘poll’ option from the list that is there. Click on next.
  4. make the poll title: ‘How do you like our website’. Set the ‘Show title’ value to ‘no’.
    Now go to Module parameters> poll select. Your poll will appear which you have to select.
  5. In the top right menu, save your poll. Now your poll is published on your website front page.

This is how you can make a number of other similar polls for your Joomla web pages. This is an example. You can also make polls for getting feedback about products, services etc.