Thanks to the amazing, rapid development of the World Wide Web, survey questionnaires can now be easily made online. Online questionnaires give you the ability to create and post questionnaires on your site and let visitors send the answers to you via the Internet. It surely saves a lot of time, money and effort, which would otherwise be required for non-online methods. However, as this form of survey is different from a conventional survey, there are several points that need to be considered in order to design a good online questionnaire.
In the cyber world, what you see on screen really matters. A researcher should always take into consideration the overall look and design of an online questionnaire because to most respondents the overall look and appearance of a questionnaire does really matter. Page breaks are necessary. Avoid having a long survey that shows up in a single page as this may not only look ugly but also take a lot of time to load hence causing inconvenience to the respondents. Having too few questions per page and spread across several pages is not a good practice too.
There are several question types that can be chosen. Multiple choice questions, scaled questions, open-ended text questions, rank order questions, are among the types that you can consider.
A good online survey should not take too much time to be completed; five minutes at a most should be sufficient. Web Survey Software is a great way to conduct survey since most of them come with a set of preloaded online questionnaires and templates. It not only saves money and effort but at the same time improves efficiency and effectiveness.
It is important to test your questionnaire before conducting the real survey. You can pre-test the questionnaire to a group of people to obtain their feedback in detail. Should they have questions about some word they are unsure about, or have trouble understanding certain questions, you can refine your questionnaire before putting it for final respondents.
Surveyo™ makes the full process of creating, piloting and testing your questionnaire very easy. Once you are satisfied with your tests, you can easily go live with a professional questionnaire based on many professional tested templates.