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Podcast 20: Success criteria

Posted in Podcast on: Monday, January 23, 2006 by Paul Boag

How will you judge if your new site is more successful than your old one? What do you want your site to achieve and how are you going to evaluate its success? This week Paul and Marcus discuss “success criteria”. What are they and how do you decide upon them?

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  • Ruth says:
    23/01/2006 at 9:11 pm

    Ignor Marcus, the colors here are just fine as they are, there’s such a thing as too many subtle blue web sites … and one cricket joke is one too many.

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  • Ed says:
    23/01/2006 at 10:13 pm

    Shameless self promotion in a podcast? Who would do that?!

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  • Paul Boag says:
    24/01/2006 at 9:19 am

    Well thank you Ruth, fortunately I always ignore Marcus on principle anyway :)

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  • Drew McLellan says:
    25/01/2006 at 8:48 pm

    “JavaScript is a markup language just like HTML and CSS…”
    10/10 for misinformation!

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  • Paul Boag says:
    26/01/2006 at 4:37 pm

    And what did I say that was misinformation? If you are going to criticise at least be specific ;)

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  • Ed says:
    26/01/2006 at 8:55 pm

    I think the quote used is the proposed “misinformation”:
    “JavaScript is a markup language just like HTML and CSS…”
    I think the point Drew is trying to make is that JavaScript isn’t really a markup language like HTML (and CSS).

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  • Paul Boag says:
    26/01/2006 at 9:17 pm

    Ah I see. Yep, he is right. But then considering my target audience (clients, with no coding ability whatsoever) I try and word things in a way they can associate with. Most of them are familar with HTML or CSS so even though my comment isnt accurate it is something that they can understand. However, I will except it wasnt the best worded. My mistake! Hands up.

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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: