I'm updating my collection of LimeSurvey templates so they work with LS 1.82 and later versions. here is "Agenda". It reflects what I see as it's clean 'business-like' lines and simple, large text.

This template is published under the GPL2 license, but I would appreciate it if you retained a link to Aptigence's website if you use it!

Get it from here



Enjoy

Carsten Schmitz, the Project Leader for LimeSurvey has opened LimeSurvey development up for a further leap in usability. Version 1.80 has been under development now for 5 months and is approaching final release stage.

What is the point of 1.80? The ever increasing number of developers of LimeSurvey wanted another chance to increase the functionality of the Series 1 releases of LimeSurvey before version 2 becomes the focus of attention.

Because version 2 is such a radical leap from the version 1 paradigm (it's a completely rewritten engine), it's taking some time to get to first release stage, and it's possible that some features currently in version 1 will be unavailable in initial releases. So version 1 has a new lease on life with new features, serious bug-fixing and general improvements overall.

The second release candidate is now out and a full finished release can be expected in the new year.

Visit the LimeSurvey site for more information.

Jen gives a nice review of LimeSurvey in this article from her jenuinetech website.

Jen's Tech Site

A quick note to mark the publishing of a minor update to the EML Viewer - particularly to fix a bug with the display of message bodies that had been encoded with Base64 encoding.

The script now recognises this and decodes the message - stopping the appearance of gobbledygook where normal writing ought be.

Thanks also to Dan Hulme for his suggestions.

Available Here

Jason Cleeland
Aptigence

A recent entry on the Limesurvey website provides a method to randomise group order by making a relatively small change to the source code of LimeSurvey.

The code modification allows you to define subgroups of your Survey groups by adding text-code to the end of the group name. LimeSurvey would then recognise those groups as a sub-group, and randomise the order of just those groups. So, for example, if you had 5 groups, and only wanted a random order for 3 of those 5, you could make those 3 randomised.

It's clever coding, and may be useful to LimeSurvey users.

Click on the link below to view the post:

http://www.limesurvey.org/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,105/func,view/catid,5/id,15828/lang,en/#15828

This is another of my templates that has been modified from the GPL/free templates listed on Free CSS Templates.

RedSquareShadow is a rather neat dark gray, red and white template. It's been adapted for LimeSurvey by displaying the Site Name at the top at all times, and the Survey Name in the red header area. The Survey Description appears when the participant moves the mouse of the information icon at the top right.

Enjoy!

Aptigence_RedSquareShadow Template

Jason

This template was modified from a template found on Open WebDesign, a repository of free template designs.

It is a fixed height template, which means you need to design your surveys carefully, and ensure that any pages you build fit into the template design.

Hope you enjoy it.

Click Here to Download Aptigence_SunnySky

As always, comments or suggestions are welcome and encouraged.

Jason

With over 2,416,000 articles consisting of over 1,048,000,000 words as at the 17th of June 2008, one may well wonder if there is there anything WikiPedia doesn't have!

Articles range from shorts, to rocket science, a full list of all pokemon characters to the history of Kazakhstan.

But there is one article that could do with some more work, and that's the one on Questionnaire Construction. With the massive take-up of online survey tools, and the huge number of online surveys held every day, the actual quality of the questioning within those surveys can sometimes be really quite poor.

If you've got some time, and the notion, why not help out and contribute your own expertise.

The EML reader has been pretty popular, showing me that I was right thinking there really isn't anything else out there that does what this script does.

I've found a few bugs and fixed them, and - to make sure I can keep track - I've numbered this version 1, and will renumber future modifications in line with that.

The latest modifications deal with alternative methods of splitting the EML file parts. If you've had trouble getting the email text to display with the previous version, try this.

EML Reader Version 1.0

Does anyone have any suggestions or wishlists for this script? Please leave comments.

On lucky Friday the 13th, it's the battle of the citrus!

Lime Vs. Mandarine.

Here's the third in the 'Aptigence_Rounded' series. This time orange goodness.

Enjoy

Click here to download

Late Breaking News: Oh dear, I can't spell Mandarin! Where did the extra "E" come from? Probably from a potatoe.

Here's the second in the 'Aptigence_Rounded' series. This time in aqua/blues.

Hope you like it

Click here to download

Avinash Kaushik wrote an article in April 2007 talking about using open ended online surveys to measure the effectiveness of your website instead of doing click-analysis.

His argues that it seems to be that click-based analysis feeds on your pre-conceived bias by only measuring use of existing pages.

Further (and the main point of the article) he says that running an open ended question based online survey allows website customers to detail exactly what it is they want from the site.

The article then describes three simple questions you could use in your online survey to gather the data.

Click here to read the full article

I developed this template partly to try out a new method of image-less rounding for CSS divs.

The result was, I think, a rather lovely modern looking template - if possibly a little too much of the hospital-green!

You can, of course change the colours to suit, and I have done. Different variants of this template will be published over the next week or so.

Hope you like it

Click here to download

The next template for public release was developed to try a different way of positioning the navigation bar.

In this case, the navigation bar sits 15pixels from the right of the page, and moves with page scrolling. It becomes less opaque when the mouse is elsewhere, and grows and becomes fully opaque when the mouse is over it.

Hope you find it interesting

Click here to download

The latest version of LimeSurvey, version 1.71 has just been released with a swag of new features and bug fixes. Many of the bug fixes are important security updates, and one of the new features is the ability to generate PDF versions of surveys!

If you're using your own installation of LimeSurvey, now would be a good time to look at upgrading!

Visit www.limesurvey.org for more information!