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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Posted in Podcast on: Monday, December 5, 2005 by Paul Boag
However you are involved with the web, whether it is as a site owner, a developer or a content provider, sooner or later you will have to make some form of design decision. This podcast explains the basics of good design and provides some simple techniques to improve the design of your site while ensure you do not undermine the work done by your web designer.
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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 just can't shut up. He publishes regular audioboos, speaks regularly and is addicted to twitter. He also has a personal blog where he shares random thoughts, inspirational articles and stuff he thinks is cool. See the latest below:
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I just wanted to complain about the song playing in the back of the podacst show all the time (in the christmas episode)…
There should be something like “sound acessibility”… this song mixed with the talking is very confusing! Song and talking… their volumes were competing with each other… well, if only the song were very low…
Very helpful site, I’m currently designing my website and your podcasts are a goldmine.
Keep up the good work,
Trevor.
I think it was this podcast where you mentioned the use of 800×600 screen resolution. From the data we have usage in NZ is around 20.1% of users which is down from 29.8% from the year before. These figures are taken as an average of the top sites in NZ. So the numbers are dropping but there are still a lot of people using 800×600.
I know this is an old podcast, and an old blog post. Most of the data on “website design practices” mentioned above is dated 2002. There has not been any sort of update that I can see.
Now if she went back to those same 315 websites and plotted the current results, that would be informative.