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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
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214. When to hire a web designer
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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
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Web Design News 22/06/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 22-06-2010 | No Comments

This week: The Boagworld Podcast goes off air, how to design better and faster, using stories in your design ideas and how to think from a users perspective.

8 ways we increased ecommerce sales by 10,000%

Posted in Design on the 29-11-2009 | 44 Comments

Discover how Headscape increased the sales of Wiltshire Farm Foods by 10,000% and how you can do the same for your site.

The biggest ecommerce lies and how to avoid them

Posted in Site content on the 06-11-2009 | 31 Comments

I am amazed at some of the advice I read about building successful ecommerce sites. I seriously wonder who writes this stuff! In this post I debunk 5 common myths.

Contact the show

Posted in on the 10-03-2009 | Comments Off

150. User Manipulation

Posted in Podcast on the 28-01-2009 | 6 Comments

On this week’s show: Liz Danzico talks about user research. Paul explains how to create an effective call to action and we discover how one button cost $300 million in sales

149. White Hat

Posted in Podcast on the 21-01-2009 | 10 Comments

On this week’s show: How to become number one on Google *cough*, are customer testimonials worth it and how do you create a reassuring website.

144. Scale

Posted in Podcast on the 19-11-2008 | 10 Comments

On this week’s show Paul talks to Joe Stump from Digg about scalable websites, we review the best apps for web designers and investigate services for sending bulk emails.

130. Air

Posted in Podcast on the 13-08-2008 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show; Paul talks about better understanding disabled users. We have a tip from Jeremy about problem solving and Jonathan Snook introduces us to Adobe Air.

123. Plight

Posted in Podcast on the 25-06-2008 | 5 Comments

In this weeks show we review Textmate and the Top 5 Tips for Web Designers and we discuss the plight of in-house designers.

117. Friendly

Posted in Podcast on the 14-05-2008 | 19 Comments

On this week’s show, we review woopra, a google analytics alternative and we explore why friendly urls are so important and what tools are out there to help you set them up.

115. sxsw

Posted in Podcast on the 19-03-2008 | 8 Comments

On show 115: Lessons learnt at SXSW, Garett Dimon on form design and how to find usability test subjects.

105. Christmas Cheer

Posted in Podcast on the 19-12-2007 | 2 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul suggests some gifts to buy the geek in your life. Marcus talks about wireframes and Matthew Paterson talks about the Email Standards Project.

Podcast 61: Christmas Special

Posted in Podcast on the 11-12-2006 | 13 Comments

In our Christmas Podcast Special; Skype murders Marcus rendition of Silent Night, Paul shares his list to Santa and they both look at the successes and failures of the web over the last year.

Ecommerce 2.0?

Posted in Web strategy on the 26-11-2005 | 7 Comments

There is a lot of hype surrounding the new generation of websites that are emerging. Collectively they are labelled web 2.0 applications, largely because they behave more like desktop applications than websites. The question is how the underlying principles of web 2.0 will expand beyond the current raft of “web applications” to encompass more traditional websites. For example, how can web 2.0 principles and technologies benefit a typical ecommerce site?

Sample site review

Posted in Web strategy on the 13-07-2005 | No Comments

A part of my job at Headscape is to provide site reviews for clients. These range from short overview reports to detailed studies on particular aspects of a site. I recently completed a review for a small ecommerce site called TrapAWasp and felt that it neatly tidied together a number of different issues I had been discussing in this blog. The client has been kind enough to allow me to publish it here so hopefully it will be of some use to others. Please bear in mind that this is only a condensed site overview and doesn’t tackle issues in much depth.

The checkout blues

Posted in Usability on the 12-06-2004 | 3 Comments

You’ve got good products at good prices and an attractive, easy to use site. So why do more than half of your customers abandon their full shopping carts?

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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