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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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216. Thanks for all the fish
This week on Boagworld: Chris Coyier talks CSS and more, we say goodbye to the boagworld podcast and ask what can you listen to now?
215. Web Directions
This week on Boagworld: Emerging trends at Web Direction @Media, playful web design and death to design by committee.
214. When to hire a web designer
This week on Boagworld: When to hire a web agency, user testing on disposable websites and a need for speed.
213. Getting all emotional
This week on Boagworld: Stephen Anderson on emotional design, I review the iPad and we talk fonts, flash and fotos.
212. More skills to learn
This week on Boagworld: 5 new skills every web designer needs to know and how to be inspired while maintaining focus.

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216. Thanks for all the fish

Posted in Podcast on the 25-06-2010 | 18 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Chris Coyier talks CSS and more, we say goodbye to the boagworld podcast and ask what can you listen to now?

215. Web Directions

Posted in Podcast on the 18-06-2010 | 2 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Emerging trends at Web Direction @Media, playful web design and death to design by committee.

214. When to hire a web designer

Posted in Podcast on the 11-06-2010 | 3 Comments

This week on Boagworld: When to hire a web agency, user testing on disposable websites and a need for speed.

213. Getting all emotional

Posted in Podcast on the 28-05-2010 | 2 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Stephen Anderson on emotional design, I review the iPad and we talk fonts, flash and fotos.

212. More skills to learn

Posted in Podcast on the 21-05-2010 | 3 Comments

This week on Boagworld: 5 new skills every web designer needs to know and how to be inspired while maintaining focus.

211. Give your users a nudge

Posted in Podcast on the 14-05-2010 | 3 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Dustin Diaz from Twitter talks about Javascript and we look at how to nudge our users in the right direction.

210. Blue Smurf

Posted in Podcast on the 07-05-2010 | 2 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Apple make their stance on Flash clear, Francisco Tolmask talks about the work he’s doing with Atlas and we review Flowplayer.

209. Uncontrolled ranting

Posted in Podcast on the 30-04-2010 | 5 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Don’t obsess over Google ranking, why mission statements must die and the decline of the homepage.

208. My hosting company sucks!

Posted in Podcast on the 23-04-2010 | 6 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Chris Lea talks hosting and customer service. Paul shares his wireframe commandments and we announce the end of Flash ;-)

207. Content isn’t compost

Posted in Podcast on the 16-04-2010 | 5 Comments

This week on Boagworld: The best wireframing tool available, do you need a content strategy and how to be the worse project manager ever.

206. The future of web standards

Posted in Podcast on the 02-04-2010 | 3 Comments

This week on Boagworld: We interview Jeffrey Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte, ask should you care about people ripping off your work and look again at the subject of the fold.

205. IE9 commeth

Posted in Podcast on the 26-03-2010 | 11 Comments

This week on Boagworld: The tables are turned as Paul and Marcus get interviewed. We talk about IE9 and hear a great perspective on accessibility.

204. SXSW 2010

Posted in Podcast on the 19-03-2010 | 4 Comments

This week on Boagworld: How to create the sxsw experience, pain free design sign off and Britt Selvitelle from Twitter talks about passion.

203. Why your blog fails

Posted in Podcast on the 12-03-2010 | 7 Comments

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

Posted in Podcast on the 05-03-2010 | 7 Comments

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?

Posted in Podcast on the 26-02-2010 | 2 Comments

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

Posted in Podcast on the 19-02-2010 | 17 Comments

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

Posted in Podcast on the 05-02-2010 | 14 Comments

This week on Boagworld: The changing role of web designers, Colin Firth on content and Becky Jones talks about the changes at Google.

198. jQuery goodness

Posted in Podcast on the 29-01-2010 | 2 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Dave interviews Remy Sharp creator of jQuery for Designers and Matt Bee dares to review the Website Owners Manual.

197. Energise your ecommerce

Posted in Podcast on the 22-01-2010 | 7 Comments

This week on Boagworld: We examine ways to improve the conversion rate on your ecommerce site, review CSS Mastery 2nd Edition and take a look at Zen Coding.

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.

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