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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.

Latest Shows

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.
198. jQuery goodness
This week on Boagworld: Dave interviews Remy Sharp creator of jQuery for Designers and Matt Bee dares to review the Website Owners Manual.
197. Energise your ecommerce
This week on Boagworld: We examine ways to improve the conversion rate on your ecommerce site, review CSS Mastery 2nd Edition and take a look at Zen Coding.
196. Interview with Kevin Rose
This week on Boagworld: We interview the founder of Digg.com Kevin Rose, take a first look at Codeslam and plan the future of the show.
195. Christmas Cheer
On our 2009 christmas special: Your favourite tweets of the year, a review of 24 ways, gifts for geeks and web design trends for 2010.

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192. Next Generation

Posted in Podcast on the 18-11-2009 | 14 Comments

On this week’s show: We have interviews with two great upcoming web designers (Jamie Rumblelow and James Proud) as well as a new segment called Elevator Pitch.

176. Youth

Posted in Podcast on the 29-07-2009 | 4 Comments

On this week’s show: Ryan and Stanton are joined by Sarah Parmenter to answer Justin’s question about what he needs to learn to become a web designer.

175. Collaboration

Posted in Podcast on the 22-07-2009 | 2 Comments

On this weeks show: Ryan and Stanton take the helm, we interview Simon Collison on client collaboration and answer your questions about improving your design skills

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.

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.

157. SXSW09

Posted in Podcast on the 18-03-2009 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show: Andy Budd, Daniel Burka, Jeremy Keith and Joe Stump answer listener questions in a live Boagworld special from the floor of SXSW.

What’s with the attitude?

Posted in Random on the 25-02-2009 | 39 Comments

We face many challenges as designers and developers – IE6, the fast pace or change, meeting the needs of disabled users. However, I am coming to believe that our biggest challenge is our own attitude.

A demonstration of graded browser support

Posted in Design on the 12-02-2009 | 14 Comments

In my post ‘Effective Browser Support‘ I explained how we should not be looking to make sites identical in all browsers, but rather focusing on usability and accessibility. In this post I demonstrate how that works in practice.

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

145. Baby Jack

Posted in Podcast on the 26-11-2008 | 1 Comment

On this week’s show Paul looks at how to communicate better with your users. Marcus examines ways to improve your contracts and Ryan has a baby (not actually on the show).

143. Partnership

Posted in Podcast on the 12-11-2008 | 4 Comments

On this week’s show Paul and Marcus discuss how to promote your web application, ways to improve the client/designer relationship and tools for managing your font library.

141. Feedback

Posted in Podcast on the 29-10-2008 | 5 Comments

In this week’s show, Paul Annett joins us to discuss how he pushes the boundaries of CSS and we look at how to improve your website through user feedback.

Fixed Footers without JavaScript

Posted in Tech/Development on the 04-09-2008 | 29 Comments

Ed Merritt (one of our very awfully clever designers at Headscape) has come up with a innovative little CSS technique I have encouraged him to share with you.

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.

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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:

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