Do people have any favoured survey websites/subscriptions/whatevers?

My church has been using Survey Monkey, but is wondering if we could be paying less. The surveys need to be confidential (not posted for any random person to see, and results not necessarily visible to respondants).

I could use some tips from someone who's actually tried out some different sites.

Ouise,

I LOVE google docs (they have a forms feature) which - as long as you don't need complicated skip logic - is perfectly fine for surveys, polls, etc.

if you have a gmail acct, you can go to google docs, and start doing a form. It is really easy, the results show up in a spreadsheet and you can make charts, etc.

anyone using firefox extensions adblockplus and/or noscript?

read this:

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Ouise, I use Constant Contact for email communication and they have a good survey product for not very much per month. Prices depend on how big your contact list is.

They also have auto-responders and other cool tools.

It deserves a separate post to thank Deena again for solving two age old mysteries...my wordpress login problem AND my link issue.

I'm no longer insane!

Well, at least not about this.

Ouise, what about installing Wordpress just to handle surveys? There are free survey plugins and contact form plugins. The contact form plugin I like best (http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin) creates a table of results in the back end that users with the proper permissions can view, but no one responding can see the results. It has a lot of other functionality too.

The design can be made to look like the rest of the website as well, you'd just need a mysql database for the data.

Not looking to start a mac/pc war. I only post it, due to the irony of the recent Windows ads: [link]

Thanks, le nubian, bonny & Deena, that's great! I'll check those out.

This is a very pretty camera: Pentax K20D DSLR, decked out in gorgeous titanium

Could this be the start of a trend? Pentax offers up this exquisite titanium edition of its highly regarded K20D digital SLR camera, reminding us of the old days of silvery film cameras slung over the hunched shoulders of battle-weary war photographers.

If this is the start of a trend, someone's going to have to figure out how to make titanium less expensive, because this $1199 camera with its 14.6 megapixel CMOS image sensor and 2.7-inch live-view LCD costs almost twice as much as the regular $700 K20D with the same specs. The titanium model's collector's-item status is further enhanced by its limited-editing status — there will be 1000 of them in the world.

Let's hope those pricing issues can be settled, and that other camera manufacturers follow suit, because this is one swank-looking shooter. Perhaps cheaper brushed chrome or aluminum could create a similarly enchanting effect. Jump to the next page for more camera porn.

::cue Homer Simpson drool noise::

That Pentax is gorgeous.

Although, I was happy to see another K1000 out and about while I was at Yosemite.