In some cases I want to switch design aspects on different pages.
Currently this is only partly possible (by putting
div class="group GROUPNAME"
in startgroup.pstl)

But sometimes a whole page needs another header, footer or color.

Giving each page an unique body class would make this possible. When each page is a group, it could be:
body class="groupidentification"
, this could even be an extra field on group definition pages, next to group name and group definition.

You could also do this on 1 question per page surveys.

I have several users who create Surveys. There are some settings that all of them should use. I have a written a guide which settings the users should set.

But sometimes people just forget.

So I think it would be best to have a option to define presets for survey settings.

There is no template file for the "enter token" screen.

It is not possible now to modify that screen, when you need to add there any elements, a survey description placeholder for example.

That page is hard-coded in index.php so you would need to modify that file. Changes are difficult and not effective. That php file is overwritten during updates of the installation.

I often apply custom css styling to certain questions. I also often copy surveys (or base new ones on old ones).

The custom styling is dependant on the specific question_ID, like this:

#question2736 .answer_cell_001
background-color: #ff0000;


So when I copy a survey I must 1) copy the template, 2) assign a new template 3) change all #question classes to the new questionclass. As this is not trivial and can only be done by inspecting the stylesheet of both surveys, it would be really swell with a smart way of doing this.

The templates available for LimeSurvey are, compared to today's average webpage, rather unattractive. They lack attractive graphic elements like borders, fine colours, and colour gradients.

Also, the templates on the limesurvey website mostly miss screenshots. The descriptions include deadlinks in many cases.

The default template and other available templates are crucial for the attractiveness of limesurvey as a whole.

The template editor jumps to the top of the script upon saving. This is annoying because I want to continue editing just where I was.

It's for people who are not web designer, geek ou CSS addict....
It will be very nice if we have 2 possibilities to edit a template :
- as actually by using the full template edition page,
- with a wizard to only change to logo on a template, just for "users".
It will be use with a very simple template who the user can only change colors, fonts with one to 3 template's styles.


In this Wizard, the user will find only theses possibilities :
- upload your logo
- place for your logo (left, middle, right) at top top,
- choose the size in a list or in millimeter (or inch).
Is there a second one? at the right if the first was à the left?
and the user will preview and validate his changes.


So, all the users in small (or very small) enterprises (without IT service and without marketing service) can use LimeSurvey.....
For a more sophisticated template, they can use valuable services from IT enterprises.....

Sometimes, wee need to hide some question, or to put some specific class, or to put some javascript workaround etc ....

We can do it like this:
#questionXXXbackground:red
or
$("#questionXXXX").hide();

I think it can be good to have some extra class possibility fo all question type. Then we can have

.importantbackground:red
or
$(".hiding").hide();

For some example.

It offer hability to implement some javascript workaround on template easily, it offer possibility i don't think because extra class can be used by jquery.


Discussion on forum with Tony
http://www.limesurvey.org/forum/can-i-do-this-with-limesurvey/69758-conditions- on-subquestion?limit=10&start=10&lang=en#69854

The Lime Survey page is filled with announcements and can be confusing to a novice user

In 1.92, there are a lot of new tip ( EM validation etc ..)

Maybe we ca have multi solution for hide_tip option:

0 : allways show ( default)
1 : hide in css and show if error ( actual no)
2 : completely remove tip ( even in HTML)

Because, maybe there are some user who don't want tip, but want use help text like a tip :).

Templating is great, but there's no reason that Limesurvey should have its own.

The templates aren’t creative or consistent, they should be updated to look more modern with a new colour scheme. Possibly making it easier to edit templates too.

The button is on the bottom right. Through my statistics I have seen, that more than every third person clicks on that at some point during the survey. A few of them then start over, most of them don't.

My guess is, that most of these clicks are accidental as users see a button to the right and click without reading because that's the expected position for next question group button.

I have now moved this button to the left and will write about my experiences with that later.

7 December UPDATE: Placement was in fact wrong!

After I moved the button its click-rate is now down to one in ten users (not one in three as before) - the ones that just don't want to take the survey. Before replacement some started over again - even two or three times - a sign of accidental hits. Now only very few start over again after hitting the button - and only once at most.