[Theforum] an example voting/polling application
rudy937
rudy937 at rogers.com
Thu Feb 7 08:27:46 CST 2002
let's take a quick tour through a popular polling/voting
system to see if there's anything we can learn
Yahoo! Polls
http://polls.yahoo.com/
notice that
~ you can cycle through the current polls (right sidebar)
~ you can vote without being logged in
(this is, imho, an important feature evolt needs to
have for certain polls)
~ you can view results so far without voting
poll categories are organized into a directory structure
under "supercategories" (virtual groupings of categories)
Yahoo! Polls > Sports Archives
http://polls.yahoo.com/public/oldarchives/sp
categories are listed linearly (look ma, no dropdown!)
with a count of the number of polls in each category
only one current poll shown
Yahoo! Polls > Sports Archives > NFL Football > Results
http://polls.yahoo.com/public/navigate/sp/2716682/0
poll summaries, with View links (this part is neat) which,
when clicked, replaces current poll in sidebar with selected poll
to see how this works, let's go a couple pages in and
pick the poll about the AFC East winner...
http://polls.yahoo.com/public/navigate/sp/2716682/20?viewPoll=2716682/p-sp-1
047&ord=3
the indianapolis dolts -- as if!!
notice how the View link is replaced by an arrow pointing to the sidebar
conclusions: here are some of the data elements needed
to support what we've seen so far --
POLL
iscurrent y/n (or done by dates?)
category foreign key
question/name Who will win the AFC East in 2001?
start date Fri, 27 Jul 2001
end date Tue, 31 Jul 2001
total votes 35642
POLL OPTION
question/name Patriots
votes 2563
pct of total 7
i hope this was helpful
it's always nice to see somebody else's system in action
when designing your own
rudy
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