Comments on: Podcast 43: The business of web design

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:53:11 +0000

Great podcast guys!
As a fledgling freelance designer I was particularly interested in your discussion of pricing. A question that came to mind: how do you handle a situation in which your initial estimate doesn’t turn out to be accurate? Are there established norms for how far overbudget you can go, or do you just eat the difference?
I’d also love to hear you guys talk about contracts, starting with the basics.
(As a side note, I had an extremely hard time hearing Marcus on my car stereo.)

By: Charles Stricklin

Charles Stricklin — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:28:33 +0000

I’m slowly, but surely, going back and listening to all your past episodes. They make great listening when I travel, which I do frequently for my job.
I found myself puzzled for most of this episode, however, because several times I heard you refer to ‘beata’s, and I had no clue what you were talking about. Somewhere toward the end, when you said the word again in a context I could more reasonably understand, I realized you were saying, ‘beta’, as if the Greek letter.
I’m just another stupid Yank, I suppose. :)

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:34:23 +0000

Re I7 rollout: Microsoft Issues Tool To Block IE7 Auto Updates

By: Ruth

Ruth — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:24:07 +0000

Re IE 7, MS are saying it will be a "high priority" automatic download. http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5223366.stm

By: Aussie John

Aussie John — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:18:37 +0000

To me the key is to being successful is a good team. People with diverse enough skills to fill all the roles need to run the business. Sales, Development, Design and management are rarely skills found in one person to the degree that will mean a successful business.
A good team are people who trust each other, get along and have fun working together. Also I don’t think one skill set is more important than the other, each are equally important.
Without sales there isn’t the money for the business, without a good design and development team you wont get loyal clients and referals from those clients, and without good management there is a lack of focus and direction to sustain the growth of the company.
I also believe that when finding a new team member the interview is always about evaluating the personality. Whether they will be a positive addition to the team and that they have the right attitude. Degrees, portfolios and work experience are the things that usually land you that interview to begin with.

By: Aussie John

Aussie John — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:51:36 +0000

Boagworld site
2:05 Redesign discussion
News
4:18 site stats package
8:27 usability article
11:22 Microsoft
15:23 IE 7.0 bugs
main
16:15 pricing projects
22:13 billing projects
28:09 skills needed to land a job
33:10 Employees, what qualities matter
36:45 Working in a home based business
43:23 key thing for success
Review
44:52 Multi versions of IE
Tip
51:12 Testing
52:05 Proposals presentation
Conclusion
53:08 joke

By: Scott Williams

Scott Williams — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:16:26 +0000

Cheers Paul, Just got to the end of the podcast. I'm always learning from you guys (-: now to try and install virtual PC on my mac running bootcamp, could be confusing.

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:58:46 +0000

Sorry Scott, those versions are buggy. Use them with extreme caution.

By: Scott Williams

Scott Williams — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:46:44 +0000

Hi just listened to this podcast and heard you talking about having IE5 installed on XP and having to remove IE6 inorder to install it. I am personally a mac user but I do have a install of windows for testing which contains every version of IE known to man IE4 IE5 IE6 and IE7. Below is the link to where you can download standalone copies of IE. http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalonex

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:50:59 +0000

We deal with it very easily Denis, we dont compete in the same market place. Bitter experience taught me early on in my web design career that competitng at the bottom end of the market wasnt worth the trouble. The reason is that a small business owner is paying for his site out of his own money. A couple of hundred pounds to him has a bigger emotional cost attached to it than a marketing director spending £30,000 on a corporate website.