Branding

[Steve Pera]

How do you customize the look and feel of a survey?

[Peggy]

Hi Steve
There are a few ways to customize your survey.

1. Under "Edit Questions", you can use the question type "Non Response
Image" to add an image located on your own web server to appear
anywhere in the survey. For example, suppose you have a university
logo image you want at the top of the survey. You would add a non
response image as the first question in the survey and enter the URL
where your university logo is located on a local web server. An image
can appear anywhere with the survey, it does not have to be the first
question. Be sure to preview your survey before sending the URL to
respondents to make sure the image location is working correctly as
you are not seeing a red X in the browser for broken image.

2. Under "Edit Questions", you can use the question type "Non Response
Text" to add text to the survey to appear anywhere in the survey. You
enter the text you want displayed and questions can go above or below
the text block.

3. You can put HTML coding with the text of a question to customize
the look. If you want the question to be displayed in red color font
you can do the following:
<font color="red">My question</font>
and then the question would appear as red to the respondent. Other
tags work as well such as <b>bold text</b> etc. You could use spacing
&nbsp; or <br> and horizontal rules <hr> tags as well. You can also
use these tags in the text of the response choices, not just
questions.

4. If you are using the "advanced rubric" question type you can use
the color choices built right in to this question type. It has a
built in HTML editor for this question type only.

One caveat...on HTML formatting please enter the tags directly as
opposed to copying them from a Word document as tags Word puts in such
as <span> can cause problems. It is better to use an HTML editor such
as Dreamweaver.

Just experiment with your HTML and preview any survey first in
multiple browsers.

Peg