From the awesome Google Calendar that lets you share your schedule or embed on your website to Google Wave for collaborative projects, Google Feedburner to update followers of new blog posts right to their inbox, to Google Docs for file sharing and form tracking…Google has what you need to make your business run more smoothly!

This post is specifically about Google Docs and the ability to create surveys, or any other type of form for that matter, and track the results in a spreadsheet. You even have the option to “Show Summary of Responses” where the data is compiled into bar graphs and pie charts – so easy a child could understand. There are a variety of templates to choose from (although we hope they add more template design options or at least the ability to customize colors sooner than later, nonetheless, they get the job done). You can create a form with ease, specifying whether you want a checklist, multiple choice question, paragraph answer, etc. Once you have completed the form, you have the option to email it or embed it on a web page (see below).

The results are tracked anonymously in a spreadsheet. You also have the option to share the ‘Results’ spreadsheet through Google Docs sharing options (now available for individual docs and entire folders). We have embedded our Client Satisfaction Survey below so you can see what it looks like. We had to force the width and height of the iframe in order for it to fit in our blog – not perfect, but again, gets the job done. If you embed the form on your blog, make sure to click on the HTML tab first, then paste the code. You can easily adjust the dimensions, just make sure to calculate the proportions to make sure it displays optimally. It’s also good to know that (for whatever reason), if you tab back to Visual, it might erase the iframe code – for this reason, we recommend copy/pasting the code in a text editing application so you can grab it again if needed!

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At Skybox Creative, we love providing the best in web design + branding without ever compromising client care and support. With that in mind, Skybox welcomes to the team Carly Bartkiewicz; account manager and latest addition to an already impressive pool of design field professionals. She’ll be hitting the ground running Рensuring your design, branding, eCommerce, search engine optimization, print and related needs are given their necessary attention to detail and some TLC, too.

Leadership, editing and project management fall directly under Carly’s wide-ranging and knowledgeable skill set. She comes to Skybox from Wheelhouse Media in North County, where she was the managing editor of Carlsbad Magazine, Encinitas Magazine and several contract-publishing projects. Outside of the office-world, Carly enjoys long walks on the beach and puppies. Seriously? Well, no, and although that may be partially true, you will more likely see her out on the soccer field or debating the latest March Madness upset. (She’s a Syracuse University journalism graduate, a central New York college known in part for both their basketball program and top-notch communications school).

Carly is here for our clients, community, friends and fans, so feel free to pick her brain or ask for some web design and branding solutions by emailing carly@skyboxcreative.com.

Now we have quite a few articles here and plan to keep the news coming, so it was time to upgrade our blog. We added an RSS feed for those of you who want to stay in the loop. It is very simple. Just click on the Subscribe RSS icon which will take you to the ‘feed’ page: http://www.skyboxcreative.com/news/feed. Simply choose the reader of choice, if you use Google RSS Reader, which we recommend, all you have to do is copy and paste the feed link into the reader.

If you are an RSS novice, contact us and we would be happy to walk you through the process.