Hi Holch,
I also agree with all you said... Personally I like the way WordPress separated -and keep separated- its .org & .com domains; Unfortunately the option to merge limeservice.com with limesurvey.com was probably not enough promising according to incomes possibilities (yes I know WP is a big machine)..
For new users wanting to know what they can do if they download and host LimeSurvey open-source Software:
LimeSurvey 2.x [at least] currently offers:
• Unlimited number of surveys at the same time
• Unlimited number of questions in a survey (only limited by your database)
• Unlimited number of participants to a survey
• Multi-lingual surveys
• User-management
• 28 different question types with more to come
• WYSIWYG HTML editor
• Quotas management
• Integration of pictures and movies into a survey
• Creation of a printable survey version
• Conditions for questions depending on earlier answers (Skip Logic / Branching)
• Piping and Micro-tailoring using a powerful expression engine
• Re-usable editable answer sets
• Ready-made importable questions & surveys
• Assessment surveys
• Anonymous and Not-Anonymous survey
• Open and closed group of participant surveys
• Optional public registration for surveys
• Sending of invitations, reminders and tokens by email
• Option for participants to buffer answers to continue survey at a later time
• Cookie or session based surveys
• Template editor for creating your own page layout
• Extended and user-friendly administration interface
• Back-office data entry possibility
• Survey expiry dates for automation
• Enhanced import and export functions to text, CSV, PDF, SPSS, R, queXML and MS Excel format
• Basic statistical and graphical analysis with export facility
• Screen Reader Accessiblity
• W3C compliance
• A detailed manual is available in several languages in our Online Manual Supporting more than 80 different languages in frontend and backend
I also agree with all you said... Personally I like the way WordPress separated -and keep separated- its .org & .com domains; Unfortunately the option to merge limeservice.com with limesurvey.com was probably not enough promising according to incomes possibilities (yes I know WP is a big machine)..
For new users wanting to know what they can do if they download and host LimeSurvey open-source Software:
LimeSurvey 2.x [at least] currently offers:
• Unlimited number of surveys at the same time
• Unlimited number of questions in a survey (only limited by your database)
• Unlimited number of participants to a survey
• Multi-lingual surveys
• User-management
• 28 different question types with more to come
• WYSIWYG HTML editor
• Quotas management
• Integration of pictures and movies into a survey
• Creation of a printable survey version
• Conditions for questions depending on earlier answers (Skip Logic / Branching)
• Piping and Micro-tailoring using a powerful expression engine
• Re-usable editable answer sets
• Ready-made importable questions & surveys
• Assessment surveys
• Anonymous and Not-Anonymous survey
• Open and closed group of participant surveys
• Optional public registration for surveys
• Sending of invitations, reminders and tokens by email
• Option for participants to buffer answers to continue survey at a later time
• Cookie or session based surveys
• Template editor for creating your own page layout
• Extended and user-friendly administration interface
• Back-office data entry possibility
• Survey expiry dates for automation
• Enhanced import and export functions to text, CSV, PDF, SPSS, R, queXML and MS Excel format
• Basic statistical and graphical analysis with export facility
• Screen Reader Accessiblity
• W3C compliance
• A detailed manual is available in several languages in our Online Manual Supporting more than 80 different languages in frontend and backend
