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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 ‘imagery’

Web Design News 25/05/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 25-05-2010 | 4 Comments

This week: Things I discovered at Future of web design, google open source web fonts, using flash to fill in the gaps and choosing the right image.

5 techniques and 10 tools for making blogging easier

Posted in Site content on the 18-03-2010 | 11 Comments

Blogging is hard work. That’s why you want to make it as easy as possible. This post provides hints and tips on how to make your blogging experience less painful.

Stop Using Stock Photography Clichés

Posted in Design on the 04-01-2010 | 62 Comments

I am sick of stock photography. We should refuse to use one more photograph of business men shaking hands or ethnically diverse people laughing together.

163. One year on

Posted in Podcast on the 28-04-2009 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show: Ryan and Stanton return due to popular demand! We are joined by none other than Elliot Jay Stocks to discuss his experience of being a freelancer for the last year, and we also ask him some of your questions from the forum.

10 criteria for selecting a CMS

Posted in Tech/Development on the 05-03-2009 | No Comments

Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS?

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.

149. White Hat

Posted in Podcast on the 21-01-2009 | 10 Comments

On this week’s show: How to become number one on Google *cough*, are customer testimonials worth it and how do you create a reassuring website.

146. Obsessive

Posted in Podcast on the 03-12-2008 | 5 Comments

On this week’s show, Paul interviews Nicholas Felton about designing with data, we celebrate the return of 24Ways, and explain how community can keep users coming back for more.

GetSignOff goes public

Posted in News on the 20-10-2008 | 5 Comments

Today GetSignOff finally opens to the public. It has been an interesting journey.

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.

107. Running to keep up

Posted in Podcast on the 15-01-2008 | 7 Comments

On show 107: What should you be learning about in 2008, Jason Beaird on web design basics and how to deal with portfolio pages.

Quick and dirty wireframes

Posted in Usability on the 06-12-2007 | 6 Comments

I am currently in the process of wireframing an internal project that we are working on at Headscape. It occurred to me that despite the fact that wireframes are a fundamental tool of web design, they are not something I have spoken about before.

Show 91: God Bless America

Posted in Podcast on the 28-08-2007 | 12 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul gets to grips with the fact that the whole world isn’t British, Marcus explains how to deal with the client from hell and Julie Howell shares her expertise on accessibility

An international web

Posted in Site content on the 17-08-2007 | 57 Comments

I hope you will excuse the slightly self-absorbed nature of this post. It is mainly an apology but also hopefully an opportunity to learn some lessons and look at how communicating on the web is a unique experience.

Show 89: 404

Posted in Podcast on the 07-08-2007 | 11 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul talks about creating the perfect 404 page, Marcus covers some of the basics of rich media and Aral Balkan makes working with databases and APIs a whole lot easier in flash.

Show 85: Bulletproof

Posted in Podcast on the 03-07-2007 | 5 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul provides some design advice for developers, Marcus provides so post launch pointers and we review Jeremy Keith’s Bulletproof AJAX book.

When developers design

Posted in Design on the 27-06-2007 | 7 Comments

In an ideal world designers design and developers develop. However, we don’t live in an ideal world and from time to time we have to swap roles. The problem is that there is a lot of tutorials and articles showing designers how to develop but little showing developers how to design. I therefore thought I would share some very basic tips.

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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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