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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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189. How to keep up with web innovations

Posted in Podcast on the 28-10-2009 | 23 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul looks at keeping up with web innovations, Marcus shares how we make the podcast and Nora Brown reviews building findable websites.

About Boagworld

Posted in News on the 05-03-2009 | Comments Off

An interview with Freelancer Magazine

Posted in News on the 02-08-2008 | Comments Off

I have just finished an interview for Alex Stubbs over at freelancermagazine.com. Being a clever cookie he massaged by ego and convinced me to take part even though I am on a family holiday in Scotland.

Logging off

Posted in News on the 20-03-2008 | 36 Comments

As you may have gathered if you have listened to this week’s podcast, I am intending to go offline for until the beginning of May.

109. Rissington?

Posted in Podcast on the 28-01-2008 | 7 Comments

On Show 109. IE8 divides the web design community, Anton Peck talks about imagery, and the Rissington Podcast crew stand in for Marcus.

104. Give us your money

Posted in Podcast on the 12-12-2007 | 9 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul shares 10 tips for getting designs signed off. Marcus looks at how to present to a prospective client and Michael Slater introduces us to Ruby on Rails.

Ongoing role of a website manager

Posted in Web strategy on the 11-10-2007 | 6 Comments

Many organizations and individuals simply underestimate the enormity of the job faced by website managers/owners, failing to grasp that it is an ongoing commitment. It is our job as web designers to make clients aware that running a website requires somebody to be responsible for it over the long term. Every website requires a website manager.

The Geeks alternative to golf

Posted in Web strategy on the 19-09-2007 | 4 Comments

I have never been a great fan of golf. As far as I can see it is a silly game that ruins a perfectly good walk. For the longest time I didn’t get why so many people played it. I especially did not understand why successful business people wasted so much time hitting a small ball around in a field.

How much to blog?

Posted in Site content on the 29-08-2007 | 5 Comments

I recently received a question from Dan about ensuring the quality and quantity of his blog posts. With so many of us blogging I thought it might be an interesting areas to cover.

Podcast Problems

Posted in Podcast on the 21-04-2007 | 13 Comments

I have received a number of emails recently complaining about various technical aspects of the podcast. Hopefully now they are all fixed.

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”.

The geeks gone soft

Posted in Random on the 08-08-2006 | 11 Comments

Today is my eighth wedding anniversary and so I have decided to take some liberties with this blog. After all, while most men say I love you with flowers or chocolates, a geek says it with a blog post.

A muddled mind

Posted in Random on the 10-04-2006 | 12 Comments

Last week we did a podcast on the WAI accessibility guidelines where I made a fairly major blunder on one of the checkpoints. Unsurprisingly this has led to a lot of entirely justifiable joking at my expense. However, now that I am suitably humiliated I thought it might be worth having a go at persuading you that actually I am right and the WAI guidelines are wrong (well not wrong as such just slightly lacking)!

A short break

Posted in Random on the 15-03-2006 | 13 Comments

Due to an overwhelming workload, we are going to be forced to take a short break from boagworld. Please don’t forget us!

Geek dinner and interview

Posted in News, Podcast on the 24-02-2006 | 2 Comments

After battling through rain, snow and bitter winds I finally made it to last nights geek dinner and it was the best evening I have had out in a long time.

Podcasting and prizes

Posted in Podcast on the 03-02-2006 | 1 Comment

Just a quick post covering a couple of housekeeping notices about changes to my podcast RSS feed and a free ticket to SXSW. I promise I will get back to posting on web design real soon!

Podcasting, no excuse!

Posted in Podcast on the 29-01-2006 | 5 Comments

Back in July of last year, I posted an entry, which talked about the potential of podcasting to promote your business. Now here we are in January 2006 and not only has podcasting hit the mainstream but even my own dad is using it to promote his business.

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: