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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 ‘HTML’

Web Design News 15/06/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 15-06-2010 | 2 Comments

This week: We look at emerging trends coming from Web Direction @Media including microcopy, HTML5 and CSS3 and inclusive design.

Web Design News 27/04/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 27-04-2010 | 1 Comment

This week: Is the homepage dying? Everything you need to know about HTML5 and CSS3. Solve problems rather than add features. And why you shouldn’t be tied to a process.

HTML5 and CSS3 with Inayaili de León

Posted in Boagworld Bites, Tech/Development on the 06-04-2010 | 4 Comments

More from show 200: Inayaili de León tells us that we can be using HTML5 and CSS3 right now.

Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte on the future of the web

Posted in Boagworld Bites, Design on the 31-03-2010 | 1 Comment

Jeffrey Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte talk about the third edition of Designing with Web Standards as well as discuss the future of the web.

Web Design News 02/03/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 02-03-2010 | 9 Comments

This week: the search for inspiration, using CSS3, ecommerce tips and why the browser landscape in Europe is about to change.

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!

184. HTML5

Posted in Podcast on the 23-09-2009 | 9 Comments

On this week’s show: We interview Jeremy Keith about the truth of HTML5 and Ryan Carson shares some more advice about building your own web application.

Creating a Draggable Sitemap with JQuery

Posted in Tech/Development on the 01-09-2009 | Comments Off

A couple of weeks ago I was tasked with building a drag-and-drop sortable sitemap for our in-house content management system. After a number of failed attempts, here’s how we ended up solving the problem.

179. Affordance

Posted in Podcast on the 18-08-2009 | 2 Comments

On this week’s show: Ryan and Stanton are back yet again and we are joined by the one and only special guest Mr Marcus Lillington! We talk to Dan Rubin about making your interface invisible and answer your questions about failure and working on multiple projects at the same time.

169. Type

Posted in Podcast on the 10-06-2009 | 3 Comments

On this weeks show: Paul talks about the power of story telling and shares some tips for “getting in the zone” and Mark Boulton joins us to talk about web typography.

161. In or Out

Posted in Podcast on the 14-04-2009 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul announces Micro-Boagworld, we discuss the pros and cons of outsourcing web work and see what recommendation the Boagworld forum has to offer.

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.

About Boagworld

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

Three secrets to simplicity

Posted in Usability on the 03-03-2009 | 13 Comments

Many website owners damage their sites by continually adding features and content when they should be simplifying. In this post I reveal why that happens and how to simplify your website.

10 tips for efficient design

Posted in Design on the 19-02-2009 | 29 Comments

Being a good designer is not always enough to survive hard economic times. You need to be efficient too.

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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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