Skip to content

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

203. Why your blog fails
This week on boagworld: the secret of successful blogging, will Google personalisation affect your sites ranking and how to help users too busy to read.
202. Rocket Surgery Made Easy
This week on Boagworld: Steve Krug on monthly usability, Steve Marshall talks about form design and Paul rejoices over the new era for browsers in Europe.
201. Are clients stupid?
This week on Boagworld: We review the freelancing book Noded, discover a new web tool called 'Support Details' and Paul tells us all a story.
200. A taste of the show
This week's show gives you a taste of the live 12 hour marathon that took place to celebrate the 200th Boagworld.
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.

or view all shows

Have your say

Become a part of the Boagworld community...

Posts Tagged ‘performance’

The Ultimate Website Prelaunch Checklist

Posted in Web strategy on the 08-02-2010 | 30 Comments

All of a sudden the site you have been working on for months is approved and the client wants it live. However, things can still go horribly wrong if you are not prepared.

190. Become a branding Ninja

Posted in Podcast on the 04-11-2009 | 9 Comments

On this week’s show: Ryan and Stanton interview Alex Hunter about managing your brand. Meanwhile Paul and Marcus look at how to speed up your website.

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.

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).

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.

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.

128. Details

Posted in Podcast on the 30-07-2008 | 11 Comments

On this weeks show, to fill the void left by Paul, I’m accompanied by our Producer Ryan and Researcher Stanton. We Interview Dan Rubin on the Details of Design, and answer your questions on managing a bigger team and terms and conditions.

127. Context

Posted in Podcast on the 23-07-2008 | 20 Comments

In this week’s show we discuss taking context into consideration when designing websites and we answer your questions about video for an elderly audience and the most influential books in the industry. 

120. WCAG 2

Posted in Podcast on the 04-06-2008 | 13 Comments

In this weeks show we talk with Patrick Lauke about WCAG 2 and we discuss the perils of blindly following conventions.

119. Fluid Elastic

Posted in Podcast on the 28-05-2008 | 10 Comments

On this week’s show Ed Merritt joins us to discuss fluid, elastic layouts and we take a look at PHP Designer, a feature rich code editor.

113. Hiring

Posted in Podcast on the 27-02-2008 | 2 Comments

On show 113: Christian Heilmann on common Javascript mistakes. Marcus talks about hiring new staff and Paul shares his journey into screencasting.

First impressions of leopard

Posted in Tech/Development on the 26-10-2007 | 17 Comments

I have to confess to being shocked today. I was under the impression that my group of online friends were all geeks. Apparently not! All I have heard today is “I am not going to upgrade to Leopard yet, I am going to wait until the bugs have been worked out”. In my world, geeks should embrace the new and throw caution to the wind. They maybe cowards but I am not… at 9:50 am today I kissed good-bye to sanity and hit the install button.

Show 96: Moll on Mobile

Posted in Podcast on the 02-10-2007 | 4 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul suggests some ways a client can pick which agencies to ask to tender. Marcus asks when is speculative design okay and Cameron Moll explaining how to get started on the mobile web.

Excited about client work

Posted in News on the 12-04-2007 | 13 Comments

I don’t talk much about the client work we produce at Headscape, but I am really excited about our latest site and so wanted to share a few thoughts about it with you.

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.

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: