Posted on January 7, 2009 - by Khaled
Top 10 Web Design / Web Development Podcasts
Nowadays, Podcasting is gaining a ceaseless increasing interest. The word podcasting was created by blending the words “iPod” and “broadcast”. This is due to the fact that the first podcasting scripts were developed for Apple iPod portable media player. However, an iPod is no longer required to listen to podcasts. Most Media Players will do the job! I prefer iTunes though as it allows searching podcasts, subscribing to them (free and paid podcasts do exist) and of course listening to them. iTunes offers really cool features for this.
Podcasts are generally a series of audio or video files which are diffused on the web via syndicated download, through Web feeds. So they are a perfect combination of RSS specification and the MP3 compression algorithm.
Over the few last years I gathered a nice collection of podcasts that I like to watch/listen to. I am going to share with you the top 10 podcasts that I favor when it comes to Web Design and Web Development.
1. BoagWorld.com
Paul Boag’s Podcast (co-hosted with Marcus Lillington) started since August 2005. It has, as of today, 147 episodes. Episode 148 will be released within a week or so. Paul deals with different subjects related to the web design business. He usually invites some big names to the show. The live streaming recording is a nice bonus too!
2. SitePoint.com
A fairly new, yet excellent Podcast, that started last November (2008). The Hosts are Brad Williams, Patrick O’Keefe, Stephan Segraves, and Kevin Yank. The SP Podcast is about The Web industry. This is an outstanding show with different point of views. 5 episodes till now but the 6th is in its way soon!
3. Photoshop User TV
An excellent Podcast to watch for Photoshoppers! Hosted by the Photoshop guys: Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Scott Kelby from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). The Photoshop guys share each week some very nice Adobe Photoshop tutorials, along with some very cool tips and tricks that will hugely increase your Photoshop productivity. 167 episodes for now.
4. Web Design TV
This podcast is produced by .net magazine. This podcast deals with different web design aspects and presents several software tutorials and tips (CSS, Graphic design, Flash, Photoshop…). The podcast started back in March 2008 and 28 episodes were released till now.
5. Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast
The Adobe Creative Suite Podcast features tips and tutorials mainly about Photoshop, Indesign and other Adobe CS software. It is hosted by Terry White. This is a 2 years old podcast that started in 2006 and still active till now.
6. The Rissington Podcast
Hosted by famous web designers John Oxton and Jon Hicks. Deals with Web geeky stuff. Started in late 2007. 19 podcast episodes were released.
7. php|architect’s PHP Podcast (P3)
A bi-weekly radio-style podcast full of news, events and discussions about PHP. It is probably one of the oldest Podcasts on the net as it started since 2003.
8. Appclinic
A video Podcast with tutorials for graphic designers hosted by Adam Hay.
9. Rookie Designer
An audio podcast about web design as a job/career hosted also by Adam Hay. This podcast wasn’t very active lately but the early episodes are great.
10. Rails Podcast
A nice rails podcast.
Now even if some of these are less active these days, listening to older episodes is really a good thing that will help learn tons of things. Most of them are available for subscription via Apple iTunes which the media player I really recommande for podcasts.
Glad you’re enjoying the new SP show Khaled. The guys are working hard to make it even better. Be on the lookout for the 17th member to join twitter as a special guest in the next show.
I love Boagworld and Webdesigner Magazine but have been looking for some new ones .
Hey Shayne,
longing to hear it 
Nice to see you stop by! Yeah I am also lucky to see the preparation process for the SitePoint podcast! I am aware that Sarah Milstein will be the next guest!
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Thanks for the links!
Thanks Khaled for sharing , few of these things are new to me . Will Love if you will add some more !!
Cool web sites, some good pointers. Actually I like some of the visual CSS touches on this site.
Photoshop user tv is amazing. Constantly breaking out with new tips and ideas.
Great list!
I'm sure the one that made those web design have really great talent. Thanks for collecting them. These are helpful. I got ideas from these designs.
Great blog, thanks for Sharing
BoagWorld.com is hands down the best. In my opinion it's much better than photoshop user tv. It's layout and editing is much much more simple. Check it out.
Great post and while im not the biggest fan of Photoshop User TV, this post has a fantastic list.
Thanks for the list its great! I really like the photoshop one. I've started listening to it and its always teaching me new things. Love it! Thanks again.
I know of SitePoint already but never heard of BoagWorld. I'll give it a go, thanks! I'm tempted to start one myself in New Zealand.
I'll also give Photoshop TV a try. I'm always amazed when I find a new quicker way of doing stuff in Photoshop. For example, it used to take me upto an hour or 2 to remove the background on stock photos for my websites. But only a week ago I found out there are various stock photo sites (Shutterstock's not bad) that have stock photos with clipping paths. I can now remove the background seconds, rather than 30mins – hours.
I'm quite embarrassed I never knew THAT one before. LOL.
Podcasting plays a huge role in a modern blogging. Thanks for the post. I think now there are a lot of special things making podcastint easy to use.
I have to agree with Peter Moss about getting really good pointers on the CSS visuals, btu especially about the design of your website. I think it is awesome. And about the webdevelopment girl, I definitely think that BoagWorld.com is the best! not a big fan of SitePoint's podcast.
This is a good way for me to weed out podcasts that would have wasted my time.
Thanks for sharing such a nice collection.
Hi again. I've really been getting into the Photoshop TV, I think I'm hooked now!
Looking forward to your next list (hint hint!), especially more web design podcasts please.
Cheers,
Bob.
I was wondering what were the factors taken into consideration by you when making this list? The number 1 is your personal favorite? I personally like BoagWorld but some of the others you mentioned I've never heard of so I can't make a top.
Cool web sites, some good pointers. Actually I like some of the visual CSS touches on this site.
by you when making this list? The number 1 is your personal favorite? thanks
photoshop user tv is indeed very educative!
Cheers for all those links. Some pretty good resources there.
I've learned a lot of CSS tips by coming to your blog – thanks heaps. Oh – and I agree with some of the others here – Boagworld.com would be my first pick too.
I'm going to try photoshop user tv and see what happens. Thanks for the useful info. Appreciate the sharing.
Fabulous collection, I love Boagworld and Webdesigner Magazine but have been looking for some new ones so thanks v much for sharing.
Cheers
Wozzza
I'm always amazed when I find a new quicker way of doing stuff in Photoshop.
I was just looking for a good PHP source and you provided a good one. Perfect for my upcoming project. You have good listingsd and informational content. Keep it up!
Is really quite good, very good, have different features, is worth studying.
Whoah, this looks different and cool. I’ll have to add it to my to-check-out list. Thanks! This is a 2 years old podcast that started in 2006 and still active till now.
I just say its really very helps full for me.
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I will take a look at the podcasts, they look good.