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Adding a poll by joining a poll service

Poll services allow any site to implement an interactive poll for their site without dealing with the server requirements or messy CGI installations. Just fill in a few blanks at the site's online registration form page, cut and paste a few HTML codes, and you have a poll! Below is a compilation of some of the best poll services on the WWW. Enjoy!

Beseen Quizlet free service
Beseen's Quizlet is a great poll service that can be customized to display either inline with the rest of your page, or as a pop up window. Neat.
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Sparklit polls free service
Simple, elegant poll for your site. Supports up to 25 answers for each individual poll.
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PollNow free service
Claiming to be the net's largest polling service, PollNow offers free polls to the wanting!
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Free Vote free service
A free poll service run by talented college students.
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EZpolls commercial service
Highly customizable poll service, by Mycomputer.com.
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Alx' Web Polls free service
Your usual poll service- free, simple, and easy to setup.
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VantageNet Web Polls free service
A solid poll service with one major shortcoming- the poll results page is saturated with way too many advertisements.

After reading this tutorial, there's simply no excuse why, if you want to add a poll to your site, you can't do so!

-Tutorial Introduction
-Adding a poll by installing your own poll program
-Adding a poll by joining a poll service

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