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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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Posts Tagged ‘readability’

Do aesthetics need to be compromised for the sake of usability?

Posted in Design on the 06-11-2009 | 25 Comments

Gerry McGovern seems to believe designers are more concerned with aesthetics than usability. Do you agree? Is either more important?

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.

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.

117. Friendly

Posted in Podcast on the 14-05-2008 | 19 Comments

On this week’s show, we review woopra, a google analytics alternative and we explore why friendly urls are so important and what tools are out there to help you set them up.

103. Bargain basement

Posted in Podcast on the 04-12-2007 | 21 Comments

On this week’s show: Paul looks at doing usability testing on a budget. Marcus explores the perfect working environment and we review writemaps an excellent online tool for creating site hierarchies.

Paying the price of tables

Posted in Tech/Development on the 18-05-2006 | 11 Comments

Barely a week goes by that I fail to rant about why we should banish table based design and yet here I sit struggling because I failed to heed my own advice.

The humble hypertext link

Posted in Design on the 19-01-2006 | 8 Comments

The ability to link one web page to another is so fundamental to the web that it is often overlooked as just too darn obvious. Amidst more exciting subjects like AJAX, accessibility or web 2.0 the humble hypertext link is often forgotten. Well, no more. I am here to make a stand, to campaign for the rights of this downtrodden tag.

Making content accessible

Posted in Accessibility on the 03-10-2005 | 1 Comment

Isn’t it funny how so many people who claim to be committed to website accessibility (myself included) tend to ignore the more subjective criteria of the WAI guidelines?

Make your site easy to print

Posted in Design on the 18-10-2004 | No Comments

If like me you get frustrated by the fact that most web sites never print properly then you will be pleased to hear that you can format your web site totally differently when you send it to print!

Design 101: Colour

Posted in Design on the 15-10-2004 | 3 Comments

In the first of my series on the basics of good web design I tackled how to handle branding. In this article I want to deal with the more subjective issue of colour. How do you choose the right colour palette?

Art direction on the web

Posted in Design on the 29-06-2004 | No Comments

Your site might be the easiest to use, most accessible site in the world but without a good concept it may well fail to sell.

Colour on the web

Posted in Design on the 16-06-2004 | 2 Comments

How to choose the right colours for your website

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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:

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