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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10 Reasons why I prefer Fireworks CS4 to Photoshop for Web Design

Posted in Design on the 29-09-2009 | 49 Comments

Leigh Howells (a designer at Headscape) shares why he has decided to make the transition from Photoshop to Fireworks.

159. Special Guest

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

On this week’s show: The north erners 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.

130. Air

Posted in Podcast on the 13-08-2008 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show; Paul talks about better understanding disabled users. We have a tip from Jeremy about problem solving and Jonathan Snook introduces us to Adobe Air.

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.

Who do you ask to tender for your web project?

Posted in Web strategy on the 26-09-2007 | 3 Comments

With literally millions of web design companies worldwide where do you begin when trying to draw up a list of potential agencies? Who do you invite to tender?

Podcast 24: Selecting a content management system

Posted in Podcast on the 20-02-2006 | 27 Comments

With almost all clients wanting to have at least some control over their websites, the choice of content management system has become a key component in a successful website project plan.

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Here are some recommended reading for those who want more. You can subscribe to these links via Twitter. If you have a suggestion for a link email Paul Stanton.

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, speaks regularly and is addicted to twitter. He also has a personal blog where he shares random thoughts, inspirational articles and stuff he thinks is cool. See the latest below: