Web Survey Capabilities

Sophisticated Web surveys require complex HTML coding and extensive testing to insure that the pages function properly.  In order to reduce the time and effort needed to create Web-based surveys, Chesapeake Data Systems has develop a methodology that combines electronic specifications (that describe the survey layout and requirements) with an extensive program library. This approach allows organizations to implement surveys on the Web much more quickly than when using traditional development methods.

In addition to helping you design a survey, Chesapeake Data Systems also provides hosting services.  And when we host the survey, we can also provide email-tracking services - you can send emails to people on your email list and then track when each person responds to the survey.  Additional emails can also be sent to those who have not yet responded.  And if you decide to host the survey on another Web site, we can provide programs to create the database and download the survey results.

Our surveys have all of the features that you need to create sophisticated Web surveys:

• Radio buttons
• Check boxes
• List boxes
• Text entry fields
• Multi-line text fields
• Numeric entry fields (with range checking)
• Default ranges for numeric fields (so ranges do not have to be specified for each)
• Field that are required based on values entered in other fields
• Required fields
• Calculated values
• Messages after the users selects a radio button\
• Initial disabling of selected questions
• Enabling and disabling of questions based on user responses
• Skip to other questions
• Save results and continue later
• Password security
• Duplication control

In addition to the survey itself, many other forms may be needed both for the survey (login, initial form, response completed form, etc.) and for survey administration (sending out emails, reviewing the results, etc.).  Chesapeake Data Systems provides a standard set of such forms, which can be easily modified (if needed) to meet your specific requirements.

If you are interested in having us do survey for you, all you need to do is the following: 

1. Design the survey according to the rules for survey specifications  

2. Fill out a spreadsheet with the additional survey requirements

3. Send us the two documents, and let us know where you want the survey hosted.