DonationCoder.com Public Survey

We are incredibly interested in what you think about our DonationCoder.com!

Please take a few minutes to participate in our first public survey so that we can learn from your feedback.

This survey is ANONYMOUS -- neither your email nor your forum user name is associated with your submission, so feel free to be brutally honest.

There are about 30 questions in total -- you can skip questions that you don't like.

1. To the best of your recollection, how did you first discover DonationCoder.com?

2. On a scale of 1-5, how would you rate the organization and ease of use of our website?

3. How could we improve the organization and ease of use of the website?
Note that this question is about our website, not our software -- we will ask about our software later.

4. Where do you think we should focus our efforts in the future?

	How Important?
Develop more new windows software
Develop more cross platform software
Develop web-based online tools
Write more software reviews
Improve the online DonationCoder community
Develop more features to help DonationCoder programmers
Improve our existing software
Other (specify in next question)

5. What features do you think we need to spend more time focusing on and why?

6. Did you find any particular areas of our website frustrating to figure out and navigate? If so, how might we improve them?

7. How often do you visit our website?

	This is my first visit
	Rarely - less than once per month
	Occasionally - 2 to 3 times a month
	Frequently - at least once a week
	Daily - at least once every day

8. What best describes your participation on the forum?

	I never visit the forum
	I only visit to read the bi-monthly newsletter
	I read the forum occasionally but never post
	I read the forum constantly but never post
	I have posted occasionally
	I post and participate often
	I participate too much in the forum I am addicted
	I'd rather not answer

9. There are a lot of things on our website that may not be obvious.

Which of the following features on our site do you already know about?

10. Which features of the site are important to you?
Ignore items you don't know about.

	How Important
Discussion Forum
DC Software
Shareware Discounts
Software Reviews
Daily Blog
Bi-monthly Newsletter
Programming School
Coding Snacks
Mini-reviews
Special Programming Contests

	Web Search
	Another Email or Web Newsletter
	Word of Mouth / Friend
	A Write-up on Another Website
	Downloaded one of our Programs from a Software Site
	Other

	Community/Discussion Forum (see here)
	Shareware Discounts (see here)
	Software Reviews (see here)
	Forum Mini-reviews (see here)
	Self-teaching Programming School (see here)
	Coding Snacks for Requesting New Software (see here)
	Silly Member Kits (see here)
	Programming Challenges (NANY) (see here)
	Year-end Best of the Web Wrap-ups (see here)
	Our Daily Blog (see here)
	Our Software Programs (see here)
	The DonationCredits Micro-donation System (see here)
	Our Bi-monthly Email Newsletter (see here)

Poor		Average		Excellent