Comments on: Headway Theme Review – This Makes Changing Your Blog Design Easy

By: Vaughn

Vaughn — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:23:01 +0000

Your MessageHeadway, clearly not all that, once you pay for the Headways theme and get your account details, then you get hit with extra hidden option fees, , not clear on the sales pitch at all. When you contact sales, the give you a BS story, after trying the Headway for 10 days its clear its not really drop and drag ,nor easy to build a website as advertised. When you ask for a refund , they state no refund.
This is not sour grapes, this is junk at best and a total waste of money.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY
Buyer beware

By: seo

seo — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:22:09 +0000

expensive, but doing business:)

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 28 May 2010 04:18:57 +0000

Hi
I have it and although it is a great system, there are still many bugs with it
It does not like many of the wp plugins
When and if they get it right it could be one of the best
I got tired of it not saving and breaking sites and prefer the Atahualpa theme, you can do almost anything with it and its free

By: Legitiamte Work From Home Jobs

Legitiamte Work From Home Jobs — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:20:10 +0000

As I write this I am in the process of selecting a new theme for one of my clients. I like the look and feel of Headway, not to mention the simplicity of WordPress. Before I spend any money, though, I would like to read a review of someone who has utilized it for several months…anyone ???

By: sale for shoes

sale for shoes — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:42:54 +0000

Looks good. But currently not within my budget. Need to make some more income and then I can used premium themes.

By: Scott@ Forex Robot

Scott@ Forex Robot — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:58:54 +0000

I wish I had the money to get this because it seems really neat. For now I just edit everything manually in the php files… boring.

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By: Cape Cod Web Design

Cape Cod Web Design — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:53:08 +0000

Being a professional web designer I’m finding that clients like to go the route of buying a pre-made blogs as it cuts down on costs for them and gives them a real polished website fast. So thank you for this post, this is a great template.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:44:39 +0000

Thanks Neil! All the best to you too.

By: Neil Uttamsingh

Neil Uttamsingh — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:34:30 +0000

Joel,

Thanks for this analysis!

It is information overload right now for this newbie (me), but I am loving every minute of it!

To your success in 2010 and beyond!!!

Regards,
Neil.

By: mma pound for pound

mma pound for pound — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:23:38 +0000

great review but i not have many money to buy it…heheheheheheh

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By: vektör

vektör — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:25:40 +0000

Worthwhile to use, thanks for expression Yaro

By: vektör

vektör — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:39:56 +0000

There is no doubt Headway is a game changer when it comes to theme customization. They have defiantly put together an innovative and useful product.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:32:38 +0000

Hmm.. I’m currently looking for a new them for one of my blogs. Maybe I’ll try this one. Thanks for sharing

By: Ankylosing Spondylitis

Ankylosing Spondylitis — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:46 +0000

@ Joel

I’m just looking for a theme with great design/layout options, easy to use, because I’m not very skilled in coding and have to adapt an onsite-blog (subfolder) to an already existing site.

Yes, simple to use options in thesis are limited, but with custom.css, custom-functions.php and hooks, you can manage almost everything. Yes, many design and layout items are easy to handle in headway (more than thesis offers), but what doing, when big options of headway are not big enough?
An example: I need a horizontal navigation, containing TWO rows, not just one (2×6 links). Additionally with CSS-dropdown. As it is an onsite blog, the links must lead to pages outside the blog (within the site).
I guess headway doesn’t make this possible just by drag and drop or clicking. How to solve such bigger things with headway

By: Ankylosing Spondylitis

Ankylosing Spondylitis — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:48:16 +0000

Having so many wordpress themes to play with makes my webmastering life more confusing. however, whenever a nice new theme comes to my attention, i can’t help but to give it a try. nice find on this one!

By: SEO Seattle

SEO Seattle — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:00:54 +0000

Headway is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks for the find and sharing.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:42:51 +0000

Hi Kelmo, I’ve never seen this theme before to be honest, and missed the webinar you mentioned. It seems to have some great inbuilt templates and flexibility, though it is a lot less visual and more backend in style, bu I guess it would be whatever you prefer.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:56:04 +0000

I’m currently using Swift Theme which is great for my current blog. However, I’ll definitely look into Headway for my other blog I plan to launch soon.

That’s what reviews are about. Be honest. Highlight the benefits and the drawbacks

Good job Yaro and Joel.

By: Elizabeth Crane

Elizabeth Crane — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:33:16 +0000

Just in time! I have several blogs I need to create and need something different and fast. Sounds much easier than going in and changing code. Thanks so much. I’m headed there now..

By: Kelmo

Kelmo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:53:43 +0000

Joel,

I forgot to mention that tomorrow at 12noon EST iThemes is having a walk through of the theme via a webinar. All the info is on their site. I will be there with bells on learning all I can so I can make the best comparison possible.

It would be good if we could get your input and comparison after you check it out.
Thanks again!

By: Kelmo

Kelmo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:45:30 +0000

Joel,

I was just about to purchase Squeeze Theme the other day and stumbled across Headway and stopped in my tracks. Now that I’m about to purchase Headway because it’s just the obvious choice, I’m faced with another hard choice.

I haven’t seen anyone comment on the new kid on the block due to be available next week from iThemes.com. They are coming out with what they are calling the Builder Theme and it looks very interesting. I does not exactly have a visual editor like Headway but it has what they refer to as the Layout Engine that allows you to create and customize each individual page.

They created a video showing some of it at http://ithemes.com/ but it’s not as good as it could be. However, with it you can make regular blog pages, squeeze pages, landing pages, RSS type feed pages (which is very interesting to me) and anything else you can think of.

Joel, if you can check this out and let me know what you think I would greatly appreciate it. I have to pick between Headway and Builder pretty quickly and they both look pretty awesome right now. Give us you take on it if you will. Thanks in advance.

Kelmo

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:54:22 +0000

@Haba, @ Entrepreneurs Blog and @Chris and all the comments before, you’re welcome!

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:53:03 +0000

In the Visual Editor you can edit both individual pages and system pages – so you can change the look or all pages or just individual pages. I haven’t used that feature much myself, but I think it can have completely different layouts on different pages, including headers and sidebars.
Squeeze theme is for a specific purpose, while Headway can be used for lots of different purposes.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:51:09 +0000

It’s difficult to let people test drive the theme before hand, I know they’re thinking of ways to do it.
Banner ads can be done manually or by using a plugin, the same as on Thesis or most other themes.
It’s a pretty new theme while Thesis has been around a while. So in the future I’m sure there will be more examples. Also search for the #headwaywp hash tag on Twitter and see some more sites built with the theme.

By: thehealthblogger

thehealthblogger — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:56:03 +0000

Joel, can one add a bottom-bar (if that’s the right word) to the bottom of ones blog like Yaro’s below, or even several bottom bars.

Is it easy to put adverts between posts etc with this theme.

I know my questions are quite specific, but would appreciate an answer.

Thanks!

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:59:54 +0000

This is very appropriate information for me. I’ve been working mostly on Type pad themes for folks and haven’t in actuality delved deeply into customizing WordPress because of the learning curve. After reviewed your blog, I am going to use and also I will try headway theme. Anyway thanks for update information.

By: Entrepreneurs Blog

Entrepreneurs Blog — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:56:48 +0000

Awesome.. was just thinking of change my theme today… this looks ideal, thanks

By: Haba

Haba — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:13:32 +0000

I’m a bit of a dunce when it comes to modifying themes, so something like Headway sounds like a godsend for people like me. Thanks Joel for the review.