Online Questionnaires:

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• Online Questionnaires
• Design issues

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Design issues

• Some issues to consider
• Consistency screen size, browsers etc
• Accessibility and standards
• Colour, layout and text appearance
• Use of images and multi-media stimuli
• Single or multiple-paged questionnaires
• Some examples follow

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Design issues

• Screen size A questionnaire question at 3
  common screen sizes

1024x768 All visible
800x600
600x480
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Design issues

• Colour the potential effects of colour variance
  where web-safe colours are not used.
• The colour scheme may appear to be suitable on
  the designer's machine, but may render
  differently on other computer screens.

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Design issues

• Colour Web safe colours.
• 216 colours that are not subject to variation on
  different types of monitors and systems.

The following link shows these colours organised
by hue (colour) or value (lightness). http//www
.lynda.com/hex.html (opens in new window)
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Design issues

• Layout
• The following questionnaire layout (from a
  genuine example on the web) was produced using
  questionnaire production software. The 'matrix'
  layout makes the information unclear.

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Design issues

• Text appearance - Genuine example of a welcome
  page (the subject is the only thing that has been
  changed)

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Exploring online research methods links
(www.geog.le.ac.uk/orm/)

• Questionnaires module
• Design issues 1 Appearancehttp//www.geog.le.ac
  .uk/orm/questionnaires/quesdesign1.htm
• Design issues 2 Contenthttp//www.geog.le.ac.uk
  /orm/questionnaires/quesdesign2.htm
• Technical guide module
• Web formshttp//www.geog.le.ac.uk/orm/technical/t
  echforms.htm
• Key design issueshttp//www.geog.le.ac.uk/orm/tec
  hnical/techdesign.htm