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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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Posts Tagged ‘project management’

Web design news 02/08/10

Posted in News on the 30-07-2010 | 2 Comments

This week: The 7 sins of web project management, Safari Extensions and Unicorn, an all-in-one validator from the W3C.

Controlling the website animal

Posted in Web strategy on the 01-07-2010 | 10 Comments

Has your website grown into an out of control monster? Does it consume your time and energy with its mountains of legacy content? If so its time to put it on a diet.

Web Design News 11/05/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 11-05-2010 | 1 Comment

This week: Engaging and helping your users, the power of habits, why business writing is so awful and things to do at the beginning of each project.

Web Design News 13/04/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 13-04-2010 | 2 Comments

This week: How to be the worlds worst project manager and how to alienate visitors. Also, why FAQs are failing and why page weight still matters.

Web Design News 30/03/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 30-03-2010 | 8 Comments

This week: Does the fold matter after all, 5 quick ways to improve your sites usability, how to blog when you’re not a writer and ensure your projects run smoothly.

198. jQuery goodness

Posted in Podcast on the 29-01-2010 | 2 Comments

This week on Boagworld: Dave interviews Remy Sharp creator of jQuery for Designers and Matt Bee dares to review the Website Owners Manual.

Don’t reduce your designers and developers to stereotypes

Posted in Random on the 03-11-2009 | 18 Comments

Rob Borley warns against reducing your designers and developers to stereotypes if you want to get the best work from them.

184. HTML5

Posted in Podcast on the 23-09-2009 | 9 Comments

On this week’s show: We interview Jeremy Keith about the truth of HTML5 and Ryan Carson shares some more advice about building your own web application.

183. Inspired

Posted in Podcast on the 16-09-2009 | 2 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul shares 3 ways to make your site stand out from the crowd. Matt Curry introduces us to Google website optimiser and Lyle Barras reviews Dropbox.

Big mistake

Posted in Web strategy on the 15-06-2009 | 28 Comments

Every web design agency screws up from time to time? We’ll tell you our screw ups, if you tell us yours!

161. In or Out

Posted in Podcast on the 14-04-2009 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul announces Micro-Boagworld, we discuss the pros and cons of outsourcing web work and see what recommendation the Boagworld forum has to offer.

158. Home

Posted in Podcast on the 25-03-2009 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show: We share the highlights of SXSW, discuss home working, and interview Rob Borley about project management.

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.

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.

125. Copy

Posted in Podcast on the 09-07-2008 | 8 Comments

In this weeks show we discuss how to give personality to your site copy and we talk with Elliot Jay Stocks about going freelance.

123. Plight

Posted in Podcast on the 25-06-2008 | 5 Comments

In this weeks show we review Textmate and the Top 5 Tips for Web Designers and we discuss the plight of in-house designers.

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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