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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
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214. When to hire a web designer
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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
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Posts Tagged ‘mobile’

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.

10 secrets to staying informed about web design

Posted in Reviews on the 15-10-2009 | 14 Comments

Keeping up in the world of web design is tough. Things move fast and its hard to stay informed. In this post I share 10 ways that RSS can come to the rescue.

174. Twitterverse

Posted in Podcast on the 15-07-2009 | 6 Comments

On this week’s show: The entire boagworld community shares its thoughts on web design and Megan Fisher gives us practical advice on building a mobile website.

10 ways to put your content in front of more people

Posted in Site content on the 12-05-2009 | 3 Comments

What is more important – driving traffic to your site or encouraging as many people as possible to see your content? Believe it or not, they are not one in the same thing.

The reality of home working

Posted in Random on the 16-03-2009 | 31 Comments

An increasing number of people are trading in the cubicle for home working. It is seen by many as the ultimate perk. However, is home working really everything it is cracked up to be? I share what I have discovered after 7 years of home working.

SXSW Coverage 09

Posted in News on the 13-03-2009 | 3 Comments

We are excited to announce we will be providing live coverage of this years SXSW conference

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.

Tips for a transformed twitter

Posted in Marketing on the 03-02-2009 | 5 Comments

With everybody from Britney to Obama now on Twitter it is safe to say the social networking platform has gone mainstream. But what does this mean for the service and how can we as website owners use it?

My Favourite iPhone Applications

Posted in Random on the 01-02-2009 | 9 Comments

I often get asked what my favourite iPhone applications are. Its hardly surprising considering the excessive number of application I buy and the amount I go on about it. I therefore thought it was about time that I compiled a list of my favourites.

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

The power and problems of twitter

Posted in Random on the 13-12-2008 | 19 Comments

I take no pleasure in this post. I do not like embarrassing myself in public. However, I need to both publicly apologise and also share a valuable lesson in the use of twitter. If you use twitter, please read this post. It is important that you do not make the same mistake.

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.

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.

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?

134. Chrome

Posted in Podcast on the 07-09-2008 | 14 Comments

In this weeks show we give you advice on choosing the right hosting company, Teifion and John send us a review of dConstruct and of course we discuss the release of Google Chrome, can it topple IE?

131. Version Control

Posted in Podcast on the 20-08-2008 | Comments Off

In this weeks show Ryan and Stanton return to talk about the importance of version control and answer your questions on project  management and invoicing applications, download sizes and page weight.

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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