Download Squad’s Brad Linder about Polls Boutique:

“Polls Boutique makes it easy to add multimedia to your polls. You can add images, audio, or video clips. You can write introductions to your polls and inlcude hyperlinks. And you can share your polls with others either through the Polls Boutique web site, or through a widget that you can embed on any web page. You can view the results of your poll at the Polls Boutique site, complete with some basic demographic info, since anyone who signs up for Polls Boutique needs to give up their location, gender and age.”

They’ve also uploaded a poll comparing us to another online poll website. We really like the results:

Fox News’ Liz Stowasky, host of Fox’s Found on the Net writes about Polls Boutique on her daily Cool Sites blog:

“Polls Boutique - If you’re addicted to taking polls, as I am, then check this one out. They’ve got TONS of polls, posted daily. Guaranteed to keep you busy for hours!”

Post number two is going to be all about our new poll widget that allows you to post a poll on your blog or website. Polls Boutique’s widget, just released, is fully customizable and allows you add any kind of media to it, and even put your own picture as a background.

But I know some of you are asking, hey - but what’s a widget anyway?

A: A widget is a way to take a piece of one site- say, polls boutique, and place it somewhere else, like a blog or social network profile. Our widget lets you take your polls boutique polls and place them on other sites. It was built with blogs in mind, and we’re currently working on widgets for Social networks and other web platforms.

Posting a poll on your blog doesn’t have to be difficult. All you have to do is post a poll on pollsb.com, click on the white share button on the bottom left of the poll, and copy the embed code.

You can then paste the code on blogging platforms such as Blogger, Typead and Wordpress, and voila! You have yourself a poll.

Here’s a basic poll widget generated using pollsb.com:

If you wish to customize the poll, change the color scheme and make it match your design, click on the white share button, and then click “Customize Your Own Widget”. You’ll find yourself in our poll customization area. Once there, you can choose any color you’d like, define a new font, and even put a picture as a background. When you’re done customizing, just click “create” and get the widget code to take with you.

Here’s an example of a fully customized picture poll widget:

And here’s a video poll widget:

Posting a poll on your blog is a great way to interact with your audience, to ask them something, get feedback, and generate news in the form of results. Give it a try.

And then, there was the Polls Boutique blog.

It took us a while to post this blog. Too long, if I may say so. It’s not like we didn’t see the need to start one: blogs are such central pillars in today’s web development process. The truth is, we were so busy creating Polls Boutique, that we didn’t get around to doing it. And here we are, 9 months since we launched our Alpha, starting our own blog! Wooohoooo!

Polls Boutique is a tiny company. Seven people all in all, front to back. You can see almost all of us here (note the funny hats):

Our vision for Polls Boutique is to create a social destination that revolves around people’s opinions. A way to meet people who have the same (or the opposite) opinions as yours, a way to learn about your friends, make new friends and even discover your own opinions, through voting.

We also want to let people use our poll tool everywhere on the web: on blogs, social networks, websites, and message boards. And we want to let people be able to make poll any way they want: with full customization and the ability to embed any rich media (video, audio, links etc). More on that in the next post, where we’ll be discussing our new poll widget.