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A podcast for those who design, develop and run websites.

Boagworld is the blog of web strategist Paul Boag who lives in the heart of rural Dorset (hence the cows). He produces a weekly podcast with UX consultant Marcus Lillington on building and running websites. They also run the web design agency Headscape.

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203. Why your blog fails
This week on boagworld: the secret of successful blogging, will Google personalisation affect your sites ranking and how to help users too busy to read.
202. Rocket Surgery Made Easy
This week on Boagworld: Steve Krug on monthly usability, Steve Marshall talks about form design and Paul rejoices over the new era for browsers in Europe.
201. Are clients stupid?
This week on Boagworld: We review the freelancing book Noded, discover a new web tool called 'Support Details' and Paul tells us all a story.
200. A taste of the show
This week's show gives you a taste of the live 12 hour marathon that took place to celebrate the 200th Boagworld.
199. Time to generalise
This week on Boagworld: The changing role of web designers, Colin Firth on content and Becky Jones talks about the changes at Google.

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Your Starter For Ten: 10 things never to leave out of a web design brief

Posted in Web strategy on the 25-02-2010 | 13 Comments

Writing a web design brief that is genuinely useful is extremely hard. In this post Andy Wickes takes you through the process to ensure your web designer is as informed as possible.

5 Lists Every Website Owner Should Keep

Posted in Web strategy on the 18-02-2010 | 30 Comments

A post about lists – life doesn’t get anymore exciting than that! Admittedly lists are not the most exciting of subjects but if you are a website owner they could make or break your website. Find out how.

The Ultimate Website Prelaunch Checklist

Posted in Web strategy on the 08-02-2010 | 30 Comments

All of a sudden the site you have been working on for months is approved and the client wants it live. However, things can still go horribly wrong if you are not prepared.

Website owners need more than web designers

Posted in Web strategy on the 28-01-2010 | 27 Comments

Why is it many website owners are changing their web designer even when he or she has built them a great looking, usable website? What more are they looking for?

Jedi mind tricks: How to persuade your users, boss, or clients

Posted in Web strategy on the 11-10-2009 | 7 Comments

Whether you are trying to get signoff for a site’s design or persuade a user to complete a call to action. We all need to know how to be convincing.

How to become an innovator

Posted in Web strategy on the 22-09-2009 | 4 Comments

Whether you are a website owner, web designer or web developer you need to innovate. But how do you make it happen?

Hold stakeholder interviews now or pay later

Posted in Web strategy on the 25-08-2009 | No Comments

Commitees are the kiss of death to any web project. Give the kiss of life to your dying project with some one-to-one interviews.

A Teenager’s Guide to Effective Freelancing

Posted in Web strategy on the 11-08-2009 | 17 Comments

At the beginning of August, I gave a talk titled “A Teenager’s Guide to Effective Freelancing” at a web conference called Tomorrow’s Web

10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging

Posted in Marketing, Site content, Web strategy on the 10-08-2009 | 3 Comments

Every company in western civilization seems to have a blog these days. But are they worth it, and why are so many terrible?

Web Design Wisdom from Twitter

Posted in Web strategy on the 13-07-2009 | 6 Comments

I asked my twitter followers for their web design words of wisdom. I had over 200 responses. Here are some of the lessons learnt.

Big mistake

Posted in Web strategy on the 15-06-2009 | 28 Comments

Every web design agency screws up from time to time? We’ll tell you our screw ups, if you tell us yours!

When to outsource web work

Posted in Web strategy on the 09-04-2009 | 11 Comments

Your in charge of your organisations website. It has become moderately successful and now you have a decision. Do you hire a full time web designer or outsource to a web design agency?

Driving traffic vs. making the conversion

Posted in Web strategy on the 27-02-2009 | 14 Comments

Marketeers are obsessed with driving traffic to their sites. Web designers are interested only in nurturing those users until they complete a call to action. Who is right?

10 ways to Battle Site Bureaucracy

Posted in Web strategy on the 17-02-2009 | 8 Comments

Running a large institutional website is frustrating. Your site is often held back by internal politics and bureaucracy. Let me show you 10 ways to cut through the crap and get results.

Increase your website ROI

Posted in Web strategy on the 12-02-2009 | 8 Comments

Are you a website owner? Do you use a web designer to build your site? Would you like to save money and increase the number of people who can access your site? Let me tell you how.

10 harsh truths about corporate websites

Posted in Web strategy on the 11-02-2009 | 36 Comments

We all make mistakes running our websites. However the nature of those mistakes varies depending on the size of your website. As your site and organisation grow, the mistakes begin to change. This post addresses common mistakes in larger organisations.

5 options when website budgets get slashed

Posted in Web strategy on the 30-01-2009 | 10 Comments

Your site is in desperate need of a redesign, content is out of date and the technology is archaic. Unfortunately times are tight and your budget has been cut. What do you do?

A partnership of cooperation

Posted in Web strategy on the 07-11-2008 | 6 Comments

At this years FoWD I shared how the relationship between web design agency and client is fundamentally broken. Where there should be mutual respect and cooperation, there is negativity and mistrust.

Don’t panic!

Posted in Web strategy on the 16-10-2008 | 4 Comments

According to Jason Calcanis and Michael Arrington the tech sector is in economic free fall. But, is the doom and gloom justified?

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Additional Information

Produced by Headscape

Boagworld is produced by the web design agency Headscape founded by Marcus, Paul and Chris Scott. Headscape also has a number of other talented guys who blog. Check them out.

  • Craig Rowe is one of our amazing developers and writes some superb posts on everything from .net to AIR apps.

  • Ed Merritt is a Headscape designer who's blog contains examples of his work and a number of free Wordpress themes.

  • Dave McDermid is a Headscape developer who has an excellent blog. He blogs on everything from AJAX to security.

  • Rob Borley is one of our project managers and blogs regularly on client and project management issues.

  • Leigh Howells is our multimedia design guru (whatever one of those is). He blogs on a mixture of design and music.

Paul elsewhere

Paul just can't shut up. He publishes regular audioboos, has a personal blog and is addicted to twitter. He also writes and speaks regularly. Check out the most recent below: