Please read all the instructions below first.

Survey Name:Short Name:
Now push this button:
2. Type your questions here:
3. Then push either OR Number of Buttons
Label at left End=Label at right End=
       

Instructions

1. To use this program for first time, try the following example. First give the survey a name and a one-word short name. Type these names, My First Survey, and survey1 in the first row of the table. The survey's long name will be placed in the title bar and as a title on the page.

2. Now push the button in the second row marked 1. Start Form. This will insert the starting HTML tags. Next Push the  1b. Demographics button. This will insert fields for Name, Sex, Age, Nationality and Email address.

3. Now, type in the text of your first question, being careful to type over the line inviting you to type in the first question. This text will be printed in the form when you press one of the buttons in the next row.

First, enter a question with a text box answer:

1. How much do you weigh in pounds?
Now, push the button marked 3a. Text Input. This will appear in the eventual browser window as follows:

1. How much do you weigh (in pounds)?

You can also use a scale of radio buttons, such as the following:

2. I find these instructions difficult to follow.
strongly disagreestrongly agree

To create this question with its scale of radio buttons, type in the question (you do not enter the question number), then type in the number of buttons you want, and also type in the labels for the ends of the scale. The default settings are for 5 buttons, labeled from strongly disagree to strongly agree, but this can be changed for each question if needed. When you are ready, push the 3b. Radio Button Scale button.

You can repeat step 3 up to 90 times, and you can intermix text input boxes and radio buttons. (If you are using the default script, you are limited to a total of 100 variables in a given form, including the hidden variables).

4. When you have added all the items you want, push the button marked 4. Finish the form. This button will add the finishing HTML to complete the form.

If you use IE5(or above) or Netscape Navigator, you can now push the 5. Display button to view the form in the browser. You cannot edit in the window directly as this will just be a preview.

5. You can now replace the words "(put your instructions here)" with your instructions. To save your work you must Copy and Paste the HTML from the window to a text editor such as NotePad, or Wordpad and Save it as text only, with an extension of .htm For example, index2.htm  It is recommended that you AVOID using an advanced TEXT PROCESSOR (such as MS Word) for this stage, as HTML-aware processors may change your HTML in unintended ways! (AFTER you have saved it as plain vanilla text, you may want to load it into such a processor or dreamweaver (available on public cluster machines) to refine its appearance, to add graphs or images, (if you know what you're doing).

7. Load the file in your browser, test it, and edit its appearance in the editor to suit your taste. If you plan to have people type short sentences as answers, instead of numerical answers, you should increase the SIZE=8 MAXLENGTH=20 to some larger values; for example, you might use SIZE=60 MAXLENGTH=100 for a brief text answer.

9. The variables will be in the order that the items are entered in surveyWiz. The question number, however, does not match the variable number, due to the demographic variables. The first question you add will be the sixth variable in the file, after the five demographic variables. If you rearrange the order of the items after creating the HTML, then the data will still return in the original order.