In this season of Boagworld we explore ways that your website can begin to pay for itself. We look at how to move your site from being a drain on resources to a key component in your business strategy. Subjects include: developing business objectives, measuring successes, creating positive user experiences, implementing calls to action, refining your site and marketing effectively.

Featured: Make better informed decisions about your site

(S01:E01) As website owners we like to talk about the importance of business objectives but I suspect we talk the talk, rather than walk the walk.

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In this season we turn the theoretical into the practical when we take all we have learn't in the past and apply it to the rebuild of boagworld.com.

Featured: An old guys guide to building modern websites

[S02E09] Boagworld.com is the first site I have personally coded in a long time. Things have certainly come a long way and become very exciting.

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Client Centric Web Design will propose a different model for building websites, one where the web designer and client work in a collaborative relationship. This introduction to an alternative approach to web design results in better sites, more satisfying projects and happier clients.

Featured: Dealing with design

Design is the subject most likely to undermine the client / designer relationship. This post focuses on how to get client and designer working together effectively over design, rather than it descending into a power struggle.

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There are great apps and tools being released everyday to help those involved in the web do their job better. With so much out there, its hard to find the best tool for the job. That is why season 4 focuses on awesome apps and terrific tools. Vote now, for apps you want to see featured.

Featured: Pixa, Smush.it, text expanders and Gusto

This week we organise our inspiration libraries, compress our clients images and speed up customer support. We also kick the butt on Diet Coda.

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Season 5 of the boagworld show highlights the best web design advice out there. From posts that have become timeless classics to the latest innovations, each Thursday we will highlight articles worthy of your attention and share our thoughts on each.

Featured: Welcome to the world of tomorrow

On this week’s show, we kick off a new season that focuses on inspirational posts including redesign versus realignment, what the heck is SEO, and responsive data tables.

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Season 6 of the Boagworld show is all about your questions. From questions about dealing with senior management to advice about the latest design technique, we are here to help. If we can’t answer a question, then we will find somebody who can.

Featured: Sprites, UX advice and long term clients

This week on the Boagworld show, awful accents asking about sprites, the thing all non ux people should know and working with long term clients.

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The original Boagworld Podcast ran for over 200 episodes and was the first podcast on web design. Aimed at those who design, develop and run websites, it won many awards and grew rapidly from its humble beginnings in 2005. We reinvented the show in 2010 but the old episodes have been kept online and redefined as ‘classic episodes’.