A question for the geeks

I want to be able to post the results of the different polls I’ve run in the past – the only way I can currently access the results is through a secure sign on the poll website. How can make those pages available to my blog readers? Is there way of saving the pages in an offline format (by coping and pasting into a document, or any other way) so that I can link the file/document on my blog?

I've tried to copy and paste but it doesn''t paste the graphs properly.  See, this is what it Download poll_results.doc does

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Test Download archived_polls.htm

Comments

[Ute]

My suggestion would be a screenshot. Press "ALT" & "PRINT" or "CTRL" & "PRINT" at the same time. This will copy whatever you happen to have on your screen to the clipboard. After that, all you need to do is paste it into a new image in PhotoShop or whatever, edit it, save it & post it on your blog.

[Ute]

Alternatively, you can save the page as a whole (at least with IE 5+) and post that on your blog, HTML, Graphics, JavaScript & all.

[Dani]

The bars are all cute and such, but do you really need them? Maybe just post the typed out results on your "Discuss the Polls" page?

That's if you can't do it the the that you'd like, of course.

[Egg Donor]

When you visit that page with all the poll information in your browser, go to File->Save (or Save Page As). That will save it on your desktop. Then you can just post the saved page, or delete crap from it if you like. Drop me an email if you'd like some help.

[Kathleen999]

I would either save it as a pdf file and upload that or just do a screen save (print screen on the PC, or CMD + Option + Shift + 3 on the Mac (I think)). You can take the screen save into any graphics program like photoshop, etc. and then crop it how you like and then save it as a jpeg and post it!

If you are on a Mac and OSX you can use the Grab program. It has a feature that lets you draw a box around the screen grab you want so you don't have to grab the whole page.

[21stCenturyMom]

One alternate, low bandwidth way to do it is to copy the table results and then use Paste-Special in Word and choose Rich Text Format. That preserves the table like appearance but gets rid of the HTML code so it is clean and loads fast. You could then upload a Word doc that combined the results of more than one poll. Doing a screen capture on the bar graph (as described by others) is also a good idea.

[z.]

The screenshot is a good idea. The image with the results and the bar chart would be 500kb at the most. And you can post the images in your Discuss the poll blog.