Episode 04: Paul Boag Interview
In this episode Dustin Diaz interviews Paul Boag with ten questions. Despite some of the technical problems and frequent internetnoiseit was definitely a pleasure having him on the show. Paul runs his own Web Design Company along with a quite a few others. Their main focus is on accessibility and building
great looking, usable websites.
Ten Questions for Paul
- Do you ever get bored of talking about Web Standards?
- Why is accessibility personally important to you? What does it mean?
- Do you do web design or development? Which do you prefer?
- IE7 is right around the corner. How is the Headscape (Paul's Web Design company) team preparing for its release?
- What is your favorite American food?
- What version of html do you prefer?
- What does your book collection look like? Recommendations? Which ones would you throw out?
- What are your thoughts on browser support when developing web sites? NS4, IE5 etc...
- What got you podcasting in the first place? When did you know you'd become a success?
- Do you have any future plans for boagworld.com and the boagworld podcast?
In the News
The first piece of news we covered is Jonathan Snook's attempt at dissecting Prototype which is a very handy reference for those developing with Prototype or just wanting to learn more about it. The second piece proves to be a useful illustration on how CSS websites are developed on a step by step basis through a CSS live redesign. Very cool indeed. The last news bit can be found on this very website where I covered the fundamentals of writing JavaScript using the Object literal. No more than a few hours later Ryan from ParticleTree later gives more love to JSON however a day before my entry was posted to this site, Chris Heilmann writes some practical advice on even more love on the object literal.Notables from this Episode
- SxSW which Dustin will be attending
- @Media 2006 which Paul will be attending
- d.Construct was also mentioned as a premeir web conference
- Paul and Dustin also like Pizza Hut
- Lastly Mike Papageorge gives a good tutorial on gZipping your CSS with PHP which can be applied to JavaScript as well
Books Mentioned
The Recommended ones...
- Designing with Web Standards
- DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design with JavaScript and DOM
- DOM Scripting
- The Zen of CSS Design
- Web Standards Solutions
And the not so recommended ones...
- Dreamweaver Ultra Dev4
- Flash 5 Dynamic Content Studio
- Active Server
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