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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.

Latest Shows

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 ‘video’

Pain free design sign off

Posted in Boagworld Bites, Random on the 13-03-2010 | 15 Comments

Getting design sign off for a website can be a painful process for both the client and designer.

A great example of moodboards in action

Posted in Design on the 08-03-2010 | 6 Comments

Moodboards are a valuable tool in the design process. However many web designers lack experience in producing them. Find out how to produce a stunning moodboard that will impress clients.

My Grand Mac Tour

Posted in Random on the 06-03-2010 | 19 Comments

This has nothing to do with web design but if you are a mac user you might find the way I use my mac interesting.

I was on net@night

Posted in News on the 03-02-2010 | 7 Comments

Wow. That was exciting. I got to chat with Leo Laptorte & Amber Mac on one of my favourite shows net@night.

Vimeo: Lessons in customer care and community

Posted in Reviews on the 22-12-2009 | 10 Comments

In my post I shared my negative experiences with Vimeo. In this video I look at the lessons we can all learn about handling customers and engaging with communities.

Why you will regret using Vimeo.

Posted in Reviews on the 21-12-2009 | 91 Comments

You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why… vimeo will ban you.

Make your website go viral

Posted in Design on the 28-10-2009 | 6 Comments

Sometimes even a small design technique is enough to make your website go viral.

The 10 harsh truths about Institutional Websites

Posted in News on the 28-08-2009 | 5 Comments

This year I spoke for the first time at CASE. The subject was ‘The 10 harsh truths about Institututional Websites’

Speed Wireframing with Nick Finck

Posted in Random on the 27-08-2009 | 5 Comments

10 ways to put your content in front of more people

Posted in Site content on the 12-05-2009 | 3 Comments

What is more important – driving traffic to your site or encouraging as many people as possible to see your content? Believe it or not, they are not one in the same thing.

Hampshire Web Developer required

Posted in News on the 01-05-2009 | 4 Comments

Are you a web developer living in the south of england? Once again, Headscape is looking for a talented, enthusiastic developer to join our team. We really need to stop expanding ;)

The Benefit of Web Standards

Posted in News on the 23-04-2009 | No Comments

Driving traffic vs. making the conversion

Posted in Web strategy on the 27-02-2009 | 14 Comments

Marketeers are obsessed with driving traffic to their sites. Web designers are interested only in nurturing those users until they complete a call to action. Who is right?

Headscape is hiring

Posted in News on the 25-02-2009 | No Comments

Are you a developer living in the south of england? Headscape is looking for a talented, enthusiastic developer to join their team.

10 ways to Battle Site Bureaucracy

Posted in Web strategy on the 17-02-2009 | 8 Comments

Running a large institutional website is frustrating. Your site is often held back by internal politics and bureaucracy. Let me show you 10 ways to cut through the crap and get results.

Staying serious

Posted in Design on the 15-02-2009 | 2 Comments

Where is the line between being serious about your creativity and allowing it to become too solemn?

152. War?

Posted in Podcast on the 11-02-2009 | 7 Comments

On this week’s show: Daniel Burka and Joe Stump from Digg discuss the supposed war between designers and developers. Paul talks about using twitter effectively and we ask ‘are you placing too much emphasis on your homepage?’

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: