Comments on: Carnival of Top Personal Finance Posts #2

By: Weekend Reading: "Man Vs. FeedBurner" Edition | Man Vs. Debt

Weekend Reading: "Man Vs. FeedBurner" Edition | Man Vs. Debt — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:31:18 +0000

[...] was honored that Frugal Dad selected me as one of only six total entries into this week’s Carnival of Top Personal Finance Posts. It looks like I’ll end up finishing in 4th, however I’m really just ecstatic to [...]

By: Matt Jabs

Matt Jabs — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:38:42 +0000

Ahhh…understand. Sometimes there is just never that perfect plugin for what we need! Been there…

By: The Happy Rock

The Happy Rock — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:56:59 +0000

@jim and matt – Thanks for the tip. I have found that WP Polls is great for hosting polls on a single blog, but doesn’t scale to different blogs and doesn’t have the ability to include HTML in the poll.

I actually had a really really tough time finding a poll widget/site that met all the carnivals needs.

By: Matt Jabs

Matt Jabs — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:07:04 +0000

@Jim:

That’s what I use as well. Works great.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:59:03 +0000

You might want to give the WP-Polls plugin a try, it’s much simpler than this one (thought not as pretty).

By: Lazy Man and Money

Lazy Man and Money — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:18:35 +0000

I don’t really understand this format, but I appreciate everyone’s vote thus far.

By: Schnauzer

Schnauzer — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:06:48 +0000

Interesting posts. I like the idea of being able to vote. Although it was a little hard to choose .

Didn’t have any problem with voting or seeing the results.

By: The Happy Rock

The Happy Rock — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:34:00 +0000

@All – I run the carnival, so feel free to send any comments, questions, bugs, or ideas totopblogpost.net [at] gmail.com. The point of the carnival is to apply an objective filter to the plethora of blog posts each week so that the reader can easily connect with the best articles in one place. I would love to offer a prize each week to reward winner as the site ramps up and the law will permit.

Also, The poll was a little askew early in the day, especially in IE, but that should be fixed for all new visitors. Unfortunately, if you already loaded the skewed poll you are most likely stuck with that version. Still trying to get the HTML and CSS designed to work on all websites well. Sorry all.

@Cindy – Hopefully, new writer’s will submit great content and make it into the poll. The carnival isn’t designed to be a popularity contest. With that said, the best blogs are the best for a reason.

@Patrick – If it wasn’t showing at all, I would suspect javascript blocking or a website filter might be responsible. If you can’t get to SurveyGizmo.com then most likely a proxy is blocking the poll.

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:18:40 +0000

@Patrick: Was it just empty or what? Which browser were you using? I’ll pass your feedback along to the carnival manager.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:33:01 +0000

Couldn’t get the voting widget to load… I bet it was cool though!