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A podcast for those who design, develop and run websites.

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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216. Thanks for all the fish
This week on Boagworld: Chris Coyier talks CSS and more, we say goodbye to the boagworld podcast and ask what can you listen to now?
215. Web Directions
This week on Boagworld: Emerging trends at Web Direction @Media, playful web design and death to design by committee.
214. When to hire a web designer
This week on Boagworld: When to hire a web agency, user testing on disposable websites and a need for speed.
213. Getting all emotional
This week on Boagworld: Stephen Anderson on emotional design, I review the iPad and we talk fonts, flash and fotos.
212. More skills to learn
This week on Boagworld: 5 new skills every web designer needs to know and how to be inspired while maintaining focus.

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Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

iPad review and the impact on web design

Posted in Reviews on the 15-05-2010 | 24 Comments

Are you thinking about buying an iPad? Are you wondering if your website will look good on one? If so this is the review for you.

My Grand Mac Tour

Posted in Random on the 06-03-2010 | 23 Comments

This has nothing to do with web design but if you are a mac user you might find the way I use my mac interesting.

Designing for the next generation of devices – don’t get left behind

Posted in Design on the 04-02-2010 | 10 Comments

I believe we live in a world where the hand-held web device equipped with an accelerometer is going to become more and more prevalent, and quickly.

168. Personality

Posted in Podcast on the 03-06-2009 | 13 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul explains how to give your site real personality and Dave shares some top tips for writing secure code.

5 options when website budgets get slashed

Posted in Web strategy on the 30-01-2009 | 10 Comments

Your site is in desperate need of a redesign, content is out of date and the technology is archaic. Unfortunately times are tight and your budget has been cut. What do you do?

147. Ho Ho Ho

Posted in Podcast on the 13-12-2008 | 6 Comments

This week on Boagworld: IT’S CHRISTMAS!

146. Obsessive

Posted in Podcast on the 03-12-2008 | 5 Comments

On this week’s show, Paul interviews Nicholas Felton about designing with data, we celebrate the return of 24Ways, and explain how community can keep users coming back for more.

The stickiness of community

Posted in Marketing on the 29-11-2008 | 2 Comments

For many, the Holy Grail of a successful website is ‘stickiness’. How do I keep users coming back for more?

143. Partnership

Posted in Podcast on the 12-11-2008 | 4 Comments

On this week’s show Paul and Marcus discuss how to promote your web application, ways to improve the client/designer relationship and tools for managing your font library.

140. Launch

Posted in Podcast on the 22-10-2008 | 5 Comments

In this week’s show GetSignOff has finally launched, we talk about how to use web stats to improve your site and we answer your questions about roles with web design and should you help clients with hosting.

A dedicated follower of fashion

Posted in Tech/Development on the 15-10-2008 | 33 Comments

My name is Paul and I am an addict. I lust after anything new and shiny. But is that really wrong?

Overcoming stagnation

Posted in Web strategy on the 19-09-2008 | 3 Comments

For many websites the days of rapid growth have passed and they have slipped into stagnation. How then can you re-energise a site and start it growing again?

134. Chrome

Posted in Podcast on the 07-09-2008 | 14 Comments

In this weeks show we give you advice on choosing the right hosting company, Teifion and John send us a review of dConstruct and of course we discuss the release of Google Chrome, can it topple IE?

129. Conferences

Posted in Podcast on the 06-08-2008 | 2 Comments

This week’s show sees the return of Ryan and Stanton, holding the fort while Paul and Marcus sun themselves on holiday. We’ll be talking about taking your first steps into the world of conferences and answering your questions about font smoothing and browser emulators.

Lessons from the O2 failure

Posted in Usability on the 07-07-2008 | 43 Comments

I don’t want to start ranting about the debacle that was upgrading via the O2 website, from my iphone to the iphone 3G. However, there are a couple of things we can learn about good site design from their mistakes.

Quick fix accessibility

Posted in Accessibility on the 09-06-2008 | 3 Comments

Complying with accessibility guidelines can seem like a massive undertaking. However, addressing 5 simple problems can make a huge difference to your sites accessibility.

120. WCAG 2

Posted in Podcast on the 04-06-2008 | 13 Comments

In this weeks show we talk with Patrick Lauke about WCAG 2 and we discuss the perils of blindly following conventions.

119. Fluid Elastic

Posted in Podcast on the 28-05-2008 | 10 Comments

On this week’s show Ed Merritt joins us to discuss fluid, elastic layouts and we take a look at PHP Designer, a feature rich code editor.

Additional Information

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.

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