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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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The plight of the in-house designer

Posted in Web strategy on the 19-06-2008 | 11 Comments

The more organisations I work with the more sympathy I have for in-house designers and developers. It is a role that can be thankless and isolating. How then can their lives be made that much easier?

122. Screencasting

Posted in Podcast on the 18-06-2008 | 6 Comments

In this weeks show we have Ian Lloyd discussing Sitepoints HTML reference and we take a look at creating screencasts.

121. Coda

Posted in Podcast on the 11-06-2008 | 21 Comments

In this weeks show we discuss 5 quick fixes to accessibility, and we review the mac code editor Coda.

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.

Coda

Posted in Reviews on the 27-05-2008 | 36 Comments

Find out why I am seriously considering abandoning the code editor I have been using for over a decade in favour of Coda for the mac.

Fluid elastic design

Posted in Design, Tech/Development on the 23-05-2008 | 4 Comments

When it comes to planning the layout of your new website there are just three commonly used website layout structures to choose from: Fixed; Fluid & Elastic width layouts. None of these are perfect; each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages.

Question: Headscape tabs

Posted in Accessibility, Tech/Development on the 16-05-2008 | 10 Comments

David Bridle writes: How did you get the tabbed menu to work in the headscape website? 

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.

116. Back

Posted in Podcast on the 07-05-2008 | 30 Comments

Returning with a new site. Jeff Croft talks about his view on web standards and we discover why the personal website is dead.

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.

113. Hiring

Posted in Podcast on the 27-02-2008 | 2 Comments

On show 113: Christian Heilmann on common Javascript mistakes. Marcus talks about hiring new staff and Paul shares his journey into screencasting.

112. Jina

Posted in Podcast on the 20-02-2008 | 11 Comments

On show 112: How to be more efficient using HTML snippets, Jina Bolton on women in web design and moving to a mac.

HTML snippets

Posted in Tech/Development on the 18-02-2008 | 9 Comments

If you are part of a web design team or skip constantly between projects, then you might want to consider an alternative approach to writing your HTML.

111. Utopia

Posted in Podcast on the 14-02-2008 | 8 Comments

On show 111: Designer and developer work together in utopian harmony. Two great listener reviews and Aral Balkan announces the biggest online web design conference ever.

110. The mighty Meyer

Posted in Podcast on the 06-02-2008 | 4 Comments

On Show 110: Eric Meyer on version targeting, the business benefits of usability testing and do I have to have a blog?

109. Rissington?

Posted in Podcast on the 28-01-2008 | 7 Comments

On Show 109. IE8 divides the web design community, Anton Peck talks about imagery, and the Rissington Podcast crew stand in for Marcus.

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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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