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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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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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Advice for CMS users

Posted in Accessibility, Site content on the 23-05-2007 | 12 Comments

I have been putting together a document for work that provides some basic advice for people who work with content management systems. It covers things like accessibility and writing for the web so I thought there might be some value with sharing it with you all.

Show 78: POSH?

Posted in Podcast on the 08-05-2007 | 6 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Paul casually redesigns the way clients and designers interact, Marcus asks if you really need a content management system, and we have Garrett Dimon on the show sharing his experiences of information architecture.

Show 75: Christian Bears

Posted in Podcast on the 16-04-2007 | 14 Comments

Marcus is back and talks about what to do if a client doesn’t pay. I look at clearing floats in CSS and we have Richard Rutter on the show giving us the lowdown on good web typography.

Show 74: Marcus 2.0

Posted in Podcast on the 11-04-2007 | 9 Comments

This week: Is scrolling a bad thing, using frameworks to speed development, encouraging goodwill among your visitors and Marcus 2.0.

Show 73: Drone

Posted in Podcast on the 03-04-2007 | 15 Comments

Marcus makes sweet love to our clients. I fiddle with my captions and our lead developer drones on about setting up a development server.

Show 72: Neverending Beta

Posted in Podcast on the 27-03-2007 | 23 Comments

On this week’s show: web stats meet usability testing, Apollo and why it is important, working with corporate colour palettes and how to sell your web design services.

Show 71: macBoag

Posted in Podcast on the 20-03-2007 | 40 Comments

On this week’s show Paul talks about user login and registration, Patrick Haney shares his opinions on good design and Marcus covers picking the right web design agency.

Show 70: SXSW

Posted in Podcast on the 13-03-2007 | 23 Comments

This special episode of boagworld comes direct from SXSW. Paul and Marcus interview a whole host of webcelebs including the founder of Twitter, Ryan Carson and a gaggle of panellists.

Show 69: All alone

Posted in Podcast on the 06-03-2007 | 5 Comments

Abandoned by Marcus, Paul struggles on alone through this week’s show. Bravely he manages to cover; the cure to hiccups, how to hunt down those pesky CSS bugs and what’s new in Photoshop CS3.

Show 68: Tagtastic

Posted in Podcast on the 27-02-2007 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show; Matthew Patterson from Campaign monitor shares some handy hints on sending an email campaign, Marcus finishes his series on web design contracts and Paul looks at some interesting alternative approaches to site navigation.

Show 67: Marcusworld

Posted in Podcast on the 19-02-2007 | 14 Comments

This week on the Boagworld Podcast, Dan Rubin looks at the design fundamentals of white space and page layout.  Marcus continues his series on the statement of work, while Paul explains openID and tackles the HasLayout bug in Internet Explorer.

Show 67: No Show

Posted in Podcast on the 13-02-2007 | 22 Comments

Hello and welcome to what should be the 67th episode of boagworld.com, the podcast for all those involved in designing, developing and running websites on a daily basis. However, unfortunately there will be no show this week.

Show 66: Beyond HTML

Posted in Podcast on the 06-02-2007 | 10 Comments

We have a bit of an audio and video theme to this week’s show with Ian Forrester talking about online video and Paul sharing some advice on creating a podcast. Marcus also continues his series on client contracts by looking at “the statement of work”.

Show 65: Dying (Man Flu!)

Posted in Podcast on the 30-01-2007 | 5 Comments

This week on the Boagworld Podcast, Paul and Marcus drag themselves from their death beds to share why you should care about Vista, which browsers you should support and introduce you to the exciting world of terms and conditions. Oh yes and Drew McLellan explains the pros and cons of Ruby on Rails.

Show 64: Hosting

Posted in Podcast on the 22-01-2007 | 12 Comments

This week on Boagworld we explain all you need to know about hosting , look at how to interpret other people’s CSS and review an excellent HTML email testing tool. Oh yes… and Marcus drones on about client stuff.

Show 63: More than iPhone

Posted in Podcast on the 16-01-2007 | 20 Comments

This week on Boagworld, Paul looks at whether it is possible to build HTML emails with CSS, Marcus discusses how to write a good brief and Christian Heilmannwades into the current Javascript library debate.

Podcast 61: Christmas Special

Posted in Podcast on the 11-12-2006 | 13 Comments

In our Christmas Podcast Special; Skype murders Marcus rendition of Silent Night, Paul shares his list to Santa and they both look at the successes and failures of the web over the last year.

Podcast 60: Return on investment

Posted in Podcast on the 04-12-2006 | No Comments

This week on the boagworld podcast we look at why return on investment should be at the heart of our approach to website development.

Podcast 59: Community websites Part 2

Posted in Podcast on the 27-11-2006 | 12 Comments

This week on boagworld Paul and Marcus continue their discussion on social participation, focusing on growing a community and troubleshooting the problems that are inevitably encountered.

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: