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

Boagworld is the web design blog of Paul (the Wurzel) Boag who lives in the heart of rural Dorset. He produces a weekly podcast with Marcus (pop star) Lillington on all things relating to building and running websites. They also run web design agency - Headscape.

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203. Why your blog fails
This week on boagworld: the secret of successful blogging, will Google personalisation affect your sites ranking and how to help users too busy to read.
202. Rocket Surgery Made Easy
This week on Boagworld: Steve Krug on monthly usability, Steve Marshall talks about form design and Paul rejoices over the new era for browsers in Europe.
201. Are clients stupid?
This week on Boagworld: We review the freelancing book Noded, discover a new web tool called 'Support Details' and Paul tells us all a story.
200. A taste of the show
This week's show gives you a taste of the live 12 hour marathon that took place to celebrate the 200th Boagworld.
199. Time to generalise
This week on Boagworld: The changing role of web designers, Colin Firth on content and Becky Jones talks about the changes at Google.

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Building better forms with Steve Marshall

Posted in Boagworld Bites, Tech/Development on the 04-03-2010 | 2 Comments

Steve Marshall from Yahoo! draws on his many years of experience to share with us best practice in form design.

Creating your first web application

Posted in Boagworld Bites on the 28-02-2010 | 4 Comments

Drew Mclellan and Rachel Andrew share their experiences of launching their first app (Perch). They talk about their successes and failures focusing particularly on the business, marketing and customer support challenges.

The Stupidest thing: The beginning of the 200th show

Posted in Boagworld Bites on the 27-02-2010 | No Comments

This is the first extract from the 200th show with complete transcript. Unfortunately, this is the introduction section which mainly consists of pointless waffle!

The Ultimate Website Prelaunch Checklist

Posted in Web strategy on the 08-02-2010 | 30 Comments

All of a sudden the site you have been working on for months is approved and the client wants it live. However, things can still go horribly wrong if you are not prepared.

Reach a point of zen in your code

Posted in Boagworld Bites, Reviews on the 21-01-2010 | 17 Comments

Zen Coding is set of plugins for various text editors that enable you to code much faster than you normally do.

180. Backend

Posted in Podcast on the 26-08-2009 | 15 Comments

On this week’s show: The Northeners are joined by the Headscape duo Craig and Dave. We talk about why you should care about .NET MVC and answer your questions about managing your code and friendly URLs.

Why .NET MVC? (and why should we Care?)

Posted in Tech/Development on the 18-08-2009 | 5 Comments

Having previously written about the highs and, perhaps more importantly, lows of working as a .NET developer. This article will continue the trip into Microsoft World, only this time it’s to the land of MVC.

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.

Don’t hate me for my .NET

Posted in News on the 08-05-2009 | 17 Comments

I’m an outcast trying to fit in… at an event like FOWA I’ll feel like working with .NET is akin to admitting to owning the Rednex single ‘cotton eye joe’ from the glory days of ‘94… but then I’ll go to a Microsoft event and feel like a pariah obsessed with miniscule details that I shouldn’t worry about (unobtrusive javascript.. element ID and exact markup control…).

Hampshire Web Developer required

Posted in News on the 01-05-2009 | 4 Comments

Are you a web developer living in the south of england? Once again, Headscape is looking for a talented, enthusiastic developer to join our team. We really need to stop expanding ;)

Bamboo Juice

Posted in News on the 23-04-2009 | No Comments

My talk was entitled ‘Winning business in tough times’ and covered the following…

As the economy slowly collapses like a giant soufflé, where does that leave us as web designers? How do we ensure the work keeps rolling in? Paul shares his experiences of winning new business in the tough times while still nurturing existing clients. He explains how business development is everybody’s concern, not just the sales team.

Case Study: Wiltshire Farm Foods

Posted in Usability on the | 11 Comments

One of the biggest challenges of running a successful website is balancing the needs of users with those of the business. This is especially true when an existing business model conflicts with user needs.

When to outsource web work

Posted in Web strategy on the 09-04-2009 | 11 Comments

Your in charge of your organisations website. It has become moderately successful and now you have a decision. Do you hire a full time web designer or outsource to a web design agency?

160. Education, Education, Education

Posted in Podcast on the 08-04-2009 | 3 Comments

On this week’s show: We speak to Aarron Walter about teaching web standards. Ryan Carson starts a series on web applications and Paul talks about remote user testing.

159. Special Guest

Posted in Podcast on the 01-04-2009 | 16 Comments

On this week’s show: The northerners are back with special guest host Sarah Parmenter. We answer your questions on how to quote for projects and whether using off-the-shelf software is wrong and we have a chat with Sarah on her experiences in the industry and the difference between developing for clients and developing for yourself.

158. Home

Posted in Podcast on the 25-03-2009 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show: We share the highlights of SXSW, discuss home working, and interview Rob Borley about project management.

About Boagworld

Posted in News on the 05-03-2009 | Comments Off

Headscape is hiring

Posted in News on the 25-02-2009 | No Comments

Are you a developer living in the south of england? Headscape is looking for a talented, enthusiastic developer to join their team.

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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.

Paul elsewhere

Paul just can't shut up. He publishes regular audioboos, has a personal blog and is addicted to twitter. He also writes and speaks regularly. Check out the most recent below: