Over on the IbD site (www.intuitivebydesign.com) I’ve been piddling around with MasterQuiz – Website Quiz Generating software. The “What you know about Who you know” quiz has some fun info that you may not have known about some of todays popular Search Industry pro’s, and an ABC’s of SEO quiz is here.
Installation was a snap – as expected. Instructions were clear and concise, and no surprises were encountered – unless you count the one bonehead instance where I forgot to actually UPLOAD a required file before attempting to run it – which was so obviously a ‘swiss-cheese-brained operator’ error that it doesn’t count anyway. 🙂
But I digress. I’ve only just scratched the surface with this one, but here’s a quick rundown on creating a simple 3 question quiz. This is only an outline – detailed information is in the MasterQuiz Control Panel and manual.
Create a Quiz – this is a simple, 4 step sequence in the MasterQuiz Control Panel –
1.Answer questions to name the quiz (ours is Step by Step), set cookie duration, specify required entry fields if any, and customize the submit button text (ours just says ‘sendit’)
2.Type in the first quiz question, then the corresponding answer choices – specifying either a Numeric or Right/Wrong Score Value for each, and selecting how answers will be displayed (radio, checkbox, dropdown or select box) Repeat for each question. In our quiz we are using a numeric score and only two possible answers per question.
3. This is a long page, but it’s because of all the options available in MasterQuiz. There’s only 1 (one) required item – ” The URL of a default results page…”. If you want to use them – other options include settings for:
- Emails – up to three emails may be sent whenever a quiz is submitted.
- Results Display – In this section, you can specify what information should be included in the quiz results and, set the formatting for the results page(s).
- Databases – Optionally, up to three databases may be updated whenever a quiz is submitted.
4. Completing this page is optional. Here you can set the quiz form’s look and feel – ie what fonts- colors-sizes, etc. If you want to do all style/design/formatting after your quiz is generated, you can just leave all the fields on this page blank.
All that’s left is to click the ‘Generate Form’ button – and the MasterQuiz Generating software does it’s stuff. You’ll see a preview of how your quiz form will look, and all the code, text, etc. needed to add the quiz to your website – cut-n-paste easy.
Of course there’s other options, that I didn’t cover here, but you can see how easy it is to use MasterQuiz.
Ready to take our little quiz? It’s just 3 easy questions about what we covered above – no tricks, I promise.
http://www.intuitivebydesign.com/masterquiz-step-by-step-review.html
DLPerry 