september 27, 2006 09:42pm
Welcome everybody to the first post of "What's up with PollPub", the PollPub development blog. PollPub.com offers the easiest and best polls for Myspace, Blogs and website - and has a great community voting on polls all the time at www.pollpub.com
Thanks for everybody who helped us test the very basic functionality for PollPub.com. Now that our site is taking off - this blog is designed to keep the community in the know about PollPub including new features, problems, and suggestions.
Have you guys noticed the new features we've added these past couple of weeks? Most noticably, we've got Photo Polls up and running (and they must of been needed because 1 out of every 2 polls now use photos). You can now view results with a pie graph or bar graph. We've added commments, poll embed codes, ratings and much more to your poll pages. We are almost rolling out a new feature every 2 days so please be patient with us. We are doing our best to keep our site up during our upgrades, and new developments.
We have alot more features we plan to add soon, so please continue supporting us (by adding great polls to our site, and yours) - and we will continue the race to offer the best Free Poll service on the internet.
Posted By: pollpub
september 29, 2006 04:00am
If you've tried to add your photo poll to a Myspace Page you may have instead saw a cool (..) instead of your photo :). We have fixed this problem, and Polls now work great on Myspace (with or without photos). If you have a poll up and want to correct the code, simply click the embed code in the detailed view of your poll and re-copy it to your website.
We've also moved to a new faster database, and sped things up in general around the site. Continue to send any problems or suggestions for our site, we appreciate it!
Sample Photo Poll:
Posted By: pollpub
october 04, 2006 02:22am
We've had a few questions about picture polls. This post should help clear up common mistakes.
1) Please only use *.jpg and *.gif files. (not *.png at the moment). We are always updating, and will be able to use *.png's soon, but for now stick to the basics.
2) Try not to have spaces in the filename. This too, is being addressed, but not having spaces will guarentee a great picture poll.
3) Have fun! :)
We have fixed problems with the server sometimes timing out when you uploaded 10 or more large photos to your polls. You should have no more problems posting large images so poll away!
Posted By: pollpub
october 07, 2006 04:30pm
We fixed a serious problem that occurred when someone created a poll with the exact same title as another poll, the first poll's url was being overwritten. We fixed this problem and to insure that this never happens again we have adopted the following naming convention:
If you make a poll titled:
"Do you like bats?"
Your polls url address will become something like: www.pollpub.com/do-you-like-bats.aspx
If at a future time another PollPub member comes along and makes a poll with the exact same title, their url will have a number added to the end, and will look something like: www.pollpub.com/do-you-like-bats2.aspx
We apologize if you are one of the few people that experienced this problem, and we thank the PollPub member who brought this to our attention.
We are continuing to add features, and work hard to fix any problems that are reported to us. Keep that feedback coming (feedback@pollpub.com). Stay tuned for a HUGE new feature release coming soon! :)
Posted By: pollpub
october 12, 2006 10:28am
You can now add YouTube content easily to your Free PollPub Polls. We finally got this anticipated feature out today! With all the news about YouTube.com this week, we had to release this exciting new feature as soon as possible. We are still doing some testing, and working some small bugs out with Myspace, but below is a example of types of Video Polls that are now available! Please be patient while we work out any kinks in the system, and like always, feedback about any problems you may encounter is so helpful!
Posted By: pollpub
october 13, 2006 11:24pm
Our browse page was temporarily broke with the release of YouTube Video polls. It is now fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Posted By: pollpub
october 19, 2006 05:50pm
You speak, we listen. We have had multiple request for more admin features on PollPub polls. We are in the process of letting you edit, close, delete, and set End dates for your polls. We will let you know the second our updated Poll Administration functions are live!
Posted By: pollpub
october 30, 2006 11:29am
Well, one feature just beat our our upcoming Poll Administration features, Audio Polls! Yes, You can now use mp3 audio in your polls. Lets see, Free Polls, Pictures Polls, You Tube Polls and now Audio Polls. This should be great for all your music artist PollPub users out there.
Posted By: pollpub
december 14, 2006 12:02am
Today, Wednesday, December the 13th - the internet terrorist attacked, and they hacked PollPub.com. I guess they don't like the fact we let people express there opinions. Or maybe they were competition and were just mad.
PollPub personally figured out how to stop the attack. And he vows one thing. He is now getting back to working on the site.
He was busy for a month, doing PollPub kind of stuff. But he is back, and PollPub.com will see a lot of great new MUCH AWAITED changes!
We are back, thanks to the Hacking Haters - Thanks for awaking the PollPub development team.
Posted By: pollpub
december 20, 2006 03:12pm
Hey everyone, we are upgrading everything on this site, and until next week, you will probably experience all types of problems. This is the best thing for the site, and the new features we are adding will be well worth the problems now. Thanks!
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