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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 ‘education’

Web Design Education Sucks

Posted in Design on the 01-06-2009 | 13 Comments

Lucian Tucker shares his thoughts on how web design is currently taught.

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.

About Boagworld

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

10 ways to Battle Site Bureaucracy

Posted in Web strategy on the 17-02-2009 | 8 Comments

Running a large institutional website is frustrating. Your site is often held back by internal politics and bureaucracy. Let me show you 10 ways to cut through the crap and get results.

Video: Introduction to WCAG 2

Posted in Accessibility on the 26-01-2009 | 11 Comments

I recently gave an internal presentation at Headscape about WCAG 2. A number of people expressed an interest in seeing it so I made a point to record it.

135. Libraries

Posted in Podcast on the 17-09-2008 | 11 Comments

In this week’s show we talk with John Resig on javaScript libraries and address the question what is more important when we release an app: speed or quality?

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.

Battling Bureaucracy

Posted in Talks on the 23-07-2008 | No Comments

I was fortunate enough to be asked to run a workshop at this years Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) in Aberdeen. The topic was Battling Bureaucracy.

Headscape is recruiting (again!)

Posted in News on the 26-03-2008 | 3 Comments

Headscape are currently after two new members of staff. If you are an experienced Information Architect or a newly qualified developer, we would love to speak to you.

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.

Come on you cheap skates!

Posted in Random on the 10-12-2007 | 22 Comments

Okay I have been doing this blog and podcast for over 3 years now. It’s about time I parted you from your cash.

Show 102: Worktime blues

Posted in Podcast on the 27-11-2007 | 8 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul looks at why you should have a training budget and how to spend it. Marcus looks at capturing requirements and Roo Reynolds introduces us to the possibilities of virtual worlds and their impact on web design.

Show 83: iphone bollocks

Posted in Podcast on the 19-06-2007 | 11 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul talks about the importance of undo, Marcus explains the benefits of stakeholder interviews and Struan Robertson highlights some legal deathtraps waiting for us online.

Show 77: A dream?

Posted in Podcast on the 30-04-2007 | 5 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul talks about how a client’s work is never done, Marcus looks at dealing with scope creep and we review Dreamweaver CS3 (is it really worth upgrading?).

Making content accessible

Posted in Accessibility on the 03-10-2005 | 1 Comment

Isn’t it funny how so many people who claim to be committed to website accessibility (myself included) tend to ignore the more subjective criteria of the WAI guidelines?

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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