Lets imagine you walking up to people you don't know on the street and ask the question "Who is going to win the coin toss?"
Most are going to say ""Huh? What are you talking about?" and walk away.
This is what you effectively are doing on your web page. People are not going to want to register and login to your website to answer a question that has no context built around it.
You are asking your visitor a question. If it doesn't make sense, then why would they even want to spend their time on your website when they dont know what you are talking about?
The answers are known. You need to phrase your question appropriately. You do that by creating a web page with a theme to it so they get a sense of what you are talking about.
For example, imagine a web page that has the following on it:
San Francisco Versus New York Giants
NFC Playoff Game
January 22, 2012
Who Will Win The Coin Toss?
San Francisco 49ers
New York Giants
What Color Gatorade Will Be Dumped On Coach After The Game?
Orange
Purple
Red
Other
Doesn't the above help people understand what you are asking?
The solution is to use a PHP poll script and build a website with a theme for each page. The theme above is "SF 49ers Versus NY Giants NFC Divisional Playoff 2012".
You use poll software that allows you to embed PHP code into your web pages.
These usually have a backend administration program for you to login and create polls, monitor them, and their answers.
For example, lets use DbScripts Poll:
http://www.dbscripts.net/poll/
You would need to download, extract, and upload to your web server. Then, login to your admin page and create the poll and its answers. Each poll will have a numeric identifer associated with it.
You could then create a PHP web page (call it giants-49ers-0122012.php). It would contain something like this:
<?php
require_once('poll/poll.php');
echo "<!doctype html>";
echo "<head>";
echo "<title>2012 NFC Playoff Game | SF 49ers Versus NY Giants</title>";
echo "</head>";
echo "<body>";
echo "<h1>San Francisco Versus New York Giants</h1>";
echo "<p class='event'>NFC Playoff Game</p>";
echo "<p class='date'>January 22, 2012</p>";
echo "<hr/>";
echo "<div class='poll'>;
echo show_vote_control('1'); // the coin toss question
echo "</div>";
echo "<hr/>";
echo "<div class='poll'>;
echo show_vote_control('2'); // the gatorade question
echo "</div>";
echo "</body>";
echo "</html>";
?>
When you want to create another theme based around an event, you do the same.
- Create your poll(s) and answers
- Note their poll identification numbers
- Create a web page
- Give it appropriate file name
- Change the template above to be relevant to the event
- Supply different numeric identifier for the show_vote_control
