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Design: Wireframing for responsive design

Responsive design creates some enormous challenges, not just in build but also in layout and wireframing.

Working in web design: 10 things I have learnt in 10 years of business

Headscape is 10 years old today. It therefore feels like an appropriate time to look back and ask myself what I have learnt over the last 10 years.

News: Do you need to worry about the cookie crisis?

The European Union has introduced legislation over the use of cookies on website. Recent guidelines help clarify what this means for your site.

Design: Four cool colour tools

I keep coming across super useful colour tools. Not that this is surprising. Working with colour is notoriously difficult.

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  • More complex form markup
  • "Content Marketing" and ripping the soul out of engaging content.
  • Do "real people" use RSS?
  • Responsive grid in CMS
  • Is it really OK to claim credit and link back to our sites on the sites we build for clients?
  • Survey Tools -- why Wufoo please?

Latest Podcast: The whys, wheres and hows of going live

If you thought building a website was hard, wait until you try to launch it. In this post we ask "when do you launch?" and "how do you launch without problems?"

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Latest audio tip: Tips for getting design approval

Looking for some regular inspiration to improve your site? Try my quick audio tips. Think, thought for the day but about web design.

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Hi, I am Paul Boag. I am a co-founder of web design agency Headscape and host of the boagworld podcast.

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