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Episode 04: Paul Boag Interview

In this episode Dustin Diaz interviews Paul Boag with ten questions. Despite some of the technical problems and frequent internet noise it 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

1. Do you ever get bored of talking about Web Standards?
2. Why is accessibility personally important to you? What does it mean?
3. Do you do web design or development? Which do you prefer?
4. IE7 is right around the corner. How is the Headscape (Paul's Web Design company) team preparing for its release?
5. What is your favorite American food?
6. What version of html do you prefer?
7. What does your book collection look like? Recommendations? Which ones would you throw out?
8. What are your thoughts on browser support when developing web sites? NS4, IE5 etc...
9. What got you podcasting in the first place? When did you know you'd become a success?
10. 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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