Podcast 35: An interview with Andy Budd
Posted in Podcast on: Monday, May 22, 2006 by Paul Boag
This week on boagworld.com Paul chats with Andy Budd, author of CSS mastery, founder of clear:left and “international” speaker. Paul and Andy discuss the state of web design, working with clients and a bit about Andy’s background and expertise.
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Despite what I may like to think, myself and Marcus don’t know everything which is why we felt it was about time we started to get some other web professionals on the show.
In the first of what will hopefully be a regular series of interviews with different web designers, I speak to Andy Budd. Andy is a prominent figure in the web design community and is well known for his book on advanced css as well as his personal blog. However, Andy is also a founding member of clear:left the web development agency which arranged last years grass roots web 2.0 conference; d.construct.
Myself and Andy discuss:
- How Andy got involved in web design
- Why he is passionate about it
- The general state of industry today
- clear:left and how it came about
- Andy’s book on Advanced CSS
- How web designers should keep up with our constantly evolving industry
- What web managers should be focusing on over this year.
Coming soon
Our next interview will hopefully be with Aral Balkan who is an expert in flash applications. With any luck he will be able to put me in my place regarding this overly criticized technology!
In the meantime be sure to download next week’s show where we look at the basics of creating a solid information architecture.
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Hi Paul
enjoyed the Interview with Andy Budd. I wonder if you could post the links to useful sites that you both discussed.
If you had to list your top 5 RSS feeds, what would they be?
Cheers
Simon
Lol Someone should count how many times you both said “you know” :)
very good indeed. ;)
or awsome, whatever suits you the best, good stuff as always.
i would like to recommend another webdesigner, and ive have refered you to his website before
http://www.gotoandlearn.com
Lee Brimelow is probably one of the most prominent flash designers/developers out there, and would love him to be on your show.
if this is of any interest to you just gimme a shout, and i can contact him about it …
What is the last line? “This show podcast is brought to you by….____________________?”
I loved the interview as I love the show! Good job.
I also want to know about RSS feeds, who do you read? Who does Andy Read (I got like 28 and he says “I only got about 40 or 50!)
Great work
to Mike: I cant believe we were doing that! Its so annoying when you hear somebody repeat the same phrase endlessly, let alone two people. In the end its all you can hear! Sorry about that.
at Simon: You can download my complete list of RSS feeds from: http://boagworld.com/Boagworld.opml and import them into your news aggregator.
at Ludig: This show is brought to you by “Headscape”. Headscape is the company I was involved in founding about 4 years back. We are a web design agency.
I just discovered the podcast so this was my first show. Loved the interview, it had some great insight and advice. I look forward to the next podcast. Gotta run, I’ve got a backlog of podcast to catchup on.
Thanks guys,
Glad you enjoyed the interview.
It was very interesting andy and paul …
thank you
Hi Paul,
I really liked this week’s podcast! And I think it’s a very good idea to get a “Flashceleb” on it in the near future!
Personally I use Flash all the time for: websites, presentations and ads. I think it’s the best application ever developed & it fits the Internet like a glove.
Though I have to say I disagree with you about Flash encouraging bad behaviour. This is only true for inexperience designers. It’s the same as saying violence on TV creates aggressive children.
Cheerz!
So if I went to any of your flash sites I would find a nice accessible version ;)
Ahum… at the moment I have only one site online that is entirely made in Flash. This is the website for my employer and it is Flash cause he really twisted my arm. But for any user who chooses not do the Flash-thing there’s HTML equivalent.
Otherwise I use Flash components mainly on websites. And I think this is the main benefit of Flash: Good looking & fast downloading movies that can push & pull database content.