Making a poll

I'd like to have two tutorials, to be honest...

First of all,'I've been searching allover for a tutorial about how to make a poll. I'm just a beginner in the designing world and would like to add a poll to my website, but preferably not a commercial/free one. Can anyone help me with that? I've also been asking on other sites, but so far, nobody could give me a real good description upon how to make a poll.

Second, I have my website with a ISP and I would like to make a secure directory on the server. They only provide me with an option to secure, but than I have to give my login and pass of them to anyone who'd like to enter the dir and of course, that's not an option, for the login and pass are for all things I get from my ISP. Can somebody help me with how to make a secure directory? I need the help badly...

At least thanx for taking the time to read my questions/problems. I hope to get some good help from people around here.

 

Greetinx,

OperatorDFS