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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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214. When to hire a web designer
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213. Getting all emotional
This week on Boagworld: Stephen Anderson on emotional design, I review the iPad and we talk fonts, flash and fotos.
212. More skills to learn
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Posts Tagged ‘version control’

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.

180. Backend

Posted in Podcast on the 26-08-2009 | 15 Comments

On this week’s show: The Northeners are joined by the Headscape duo Craig and Dave. We talk about why you should care about .NET MVC and answer your questions about managing your code and friendly URLs.

144. Scale

Posted in Podcast on the 19-11-2008 | 10 Comments

On this week’s show Paul talks to Joe Stump from Digg about scalable websites, we review the best apps for web designers and investigate services for sending bulk emails.

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.

To Version Control or Not?

Posted in Tech/Development, Web strategy on the 18-08-2008 | 23 Comments

Version control can seem like a very daunting thing to incorporate into your work flow, but once it’s there you can be left wondering how you ever lived without it. Paul Stanton gives his thoughts and experiences on the subject.

121. Coda

Posted in Podcast on the 11-06-2008 | 21 Comments

In this weeks show we discuss 5 quick fixes to accessibility, and we review the mac code editor Coda.

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.

Podcast 26: Technical considerations

Posted in Podcast on the 06-03-2006 | 7 Comments

What are the technical considerations you need to take into account before building your new website? Understanding things like the technical constraints faced by your users or inherent in your hosting environment, helps to define the functionality of your site.

Home working and departing friends

Posted in Random on the 29-07-2005 | 2 Comments

Well, today sees the first member of staff to leave Headscape since setting the company up in January 2002. It is a strange experience having a member of staff leave when you are a virtual company.

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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.

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