I need a poll for my webpage

What would be the easiest/fastest way of creating a poll for my website? I don't want to use "premade" polls you can find on the web, but I'd rather create one by my own. But how? What you the best method be? What programs should I use? How to store data on the server (ie number of users voting etc). Basically I need to know everything :D . I hope it's not too much.

I'd appreciate ANY kind of information (especially how to store/retrive data from the server)
BTW it has to work for NS and IE 4.0+

Thanks
Spike

PHP with mySQL is easy

That's what i would use

I use Perl with a DBM file (ties a hash to a disk file).