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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.

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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.

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Reach a point of zen in your code

Posted in Boagworld Bites, Reviews on the 21-01-2010 | 17 Comments

Zen Coding is set of plugins for various text editors that enable you to code much faster than you normally do.

5 ways to give your site a speed boost in less than 30 minutes.

Posted in Tech/Development on the 20-10-2009 | 19 Comments

In the age of broadband it is to think download speed does not matter. However, nothing could be further from the truth. I share 5 ways to add some zip to your site.

Watch the show live

Posted in News on the 23-04-2009 | No Comments

159. Special Guest

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

On this week’s show: The northerners 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.

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?

Staying serious

Posted in Design on the 15-02-2009 | 2 Comments

Where is the line between being serious about your creativity and allowing it to become too solemn?

5 options when website budgets get slashed

Posted in Web strategy on the 30-01-2009 | 10 Comments

Your site is in desperate need of a redesign, content is out of date and the technology is archaic. Unfortunately times are tight and your budget has been cut. What do you do?

142. Community

Posted in Podcast on the 05-11-2008 | 4 Comments

In this week’s show Ryan and Stanton cover the news in Paul’s absence, we’re joined by Mark Boulton to discuss design by community and Marcus reminds us to keep positive.

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.

Too many content management systems

Posted in Tech/Development on the 08-08-2008 | 4 Comments

I know we live in a capitalist society. I know we are supposed to believe in choice. However, there are just too many damn content management systems. Another extract from the Website Owners Manual

Quick fix accessibility

Posted in Accessibility on the 09-06-2008 | 3 Comments

Complying with accessibility guidelines can seem like a massive undertaking. However, addressing 5 simple problems can make a huge difference to your sites accessibility.

Location aware

Posted in Tech/Development on the 19-05-2008 | 6 Comments

The web is full of exciting innovations at the moment. However, it is geocoding that personally excites me the most. In this post I explain what it is and why I believe it offers so much potential.

Yahoo Live!

Posted in News on the 11-02-2008 | 12 Comments

Yahoo have launched a new live webcam broadcasting service that has some real potential.

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.

A new way to visualize your desktop

Posted in Usability on the 29-06-2007 | 8 Comments

Bumptop is a new way to work with files that mirrors much more closing the experience of interacting with your desk in the physical universe. You can stack files, throw them around and even crumple them up in a 3D environment.

PhotoSynth

Posted in Tech/Development on the 15-06-2007 | 9 Comments

Acquired by Microsoft Photosynth is truly amazing. Imagine being able to take every image of Notre Dame off of flickr and join them into a complete 3D model. Or what about being able to zoom in and out of gigabytes of photo data on the fly. Well they are already doing it…

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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: