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Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

ilimas — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:08:44 -0000

Headway 1.5 looks great! Does Headway allow you to do the floating search bar you have on your site without any special programming?

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Loloz Pine Furniture — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:35:55 -0000

Headway seems to be good but I have been using Thesis for too long to change now.
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Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Eric Gibson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:14:52 -0000

No, what I meant was the download time for the readers, the viewers... I got an email from Headway acknowledging that it can "drag sometimes," but he said that Headway 1.6 is cache friendly so "when you actually are using something like W3 Total Cache or WP-Super Cache, it screams." (I'm not a techie, but I assume he's referring to the viewing experience of my the readers...)

I went to the W3 Total Cache website, and (if I got this right) they claim it makes things download for most of your viewers.... looks very promising to me!

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Danny — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:09:30 -0000

Hi there Eric,

Not quite sure what you mean with regards "download time". Is this downloading the theme ready for install? Or making changes and refresh rate? Or something different completely?

I used Thesis prior to Headway on this blog and I haven't found any difference at all. There is a small delay when saving changes that are made, but then when you compare that to the time it takes to make a change, save, check, make a change, save and check again, etc, that all other themes make you go through, there's no comparison :)

If that's not what you mean, let me know and I'll be happy to help if I can.

Cheers!

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Eric Gibson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:32:24 -0000

Headway looks awesome and seems to have the click-and-point, no-coding visual design I'm looking for... My main reservation is that I've seen review feedback that the download time for a Headway Theme is slow compared to Thesis.

Will this be addressed soon in a future upgrade, or it something inherent in the drag-and-drop capability that Headway has?

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Danny — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:20:53 -0000

Hi Chris,

Yep, when you upload the image, you have an option to add a URL underneath. This can be to anywhere you want, internal or external. This is all from out-of the box, and is very easy to do :)

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Chris Hare — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:46:09 -0000

Hi Danny,

I'm wondering about the image rotator. Does it allow you to click on the images that are in the rotator and can those images be linked to URL's on another site? I want to create a large rotating header similar to this:

http://themeforest.net/item...

Is that doable out of the box or is there another plug-in I can use? Thanks so much!

Chris

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Danny — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:56:53 -0000

Cheers Clay! :)

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Clay Griffiths — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:06:04 -0000

Headway is a stand-alone theme. Not a plugin. It's meant to be built upon with custom.css and hooks and/or using the visual editor. However, we are going to support child themes/skins in the near future.

-Clay

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Danny — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:50:26 -0000

Good question, Ted, and not one I'm qualified to answer. Let me get either Clay or Grant from Headway to answer it.

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Ted Payne — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:49:15 -0000

Can you use Headway to amke WP templates, or would your theme files be tied directly into Headway?

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Grant Griffiths — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:52:41 -0000

Cathy - Actually we dug deep into this one and leafs is also proper grammar.

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

scrappinmichele — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:04:26 -0000

I&#39ve been playing (yes playing because it doesn&#39t feel like work..so fun) with Headyway for 2 days now. I love how I can just move things around. If I could get the footer to work right I&#39d be in heaven.

If you are going to spend money on a theme, it might as well be one you can easily customize yourself.

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

scrappinmichele — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:04:26 -0000

I've been playing (yes playing because it doesn't feel like work..so fun) with Headyway for 2 days now. I love how I can just move things around. If I could get the footer to work right I'd be in heaven.

If you are going to spend money on a theme, it might as well be one you can easily customize yourself.

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Danny Brown — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:45:00 -0000

Hey there Trevor, cheers, look forward to seeing what you come up with. And appreciate the 12for12k support as well :)

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Danny Brown — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:45:29 -0000

Hey there Trevor, cheers, look forward to seeing what you come up with. And appreciate the 12for12k support as well :)

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

TrevorY — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:15:15 -0000

All I can say is WOW. This is what we have been looking for and with the offer to give 50% to 12for12k that sealed the deal. Thank you Danny.

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

TrevorY — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:15:15 -0000

All I can say is WOW. This is what we have been looking for and with the offer to give 50% to 12for12k that sealed the deal. Thank you Danny.

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Danny Brown — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:20:43 -0000

I&#39m guessing you won&#39t be too much of a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs then, Cathy? ;-)

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

CathyWebSavvyPR — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:14:41 -0000

Great info/post Danny. The only problem I have with Headway is their nomenclature - yes, if you put a single leaf into a dining room table - that is called a leaf. When you put two into a table, you are putting two leaves into a table, just like you don&#39t have two leafs on a tree, but two leaves. The plural of leaf (no matter what type it is) is leaves. I&#39m not usually such a grammar drama queen, and I love the Headway theme and the ease of making changes to it, but I just hadda say it.

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Danny Brown — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:20:43 -0000

I'm guessing you won't be too much of a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs then, Cathy? ;-)

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

CathyWebSavvyPR — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:14:41 -0000

Great info/post Danny. The only problem I have with Headway is their nomenclature - yes, if you put a single leaf into a dining room table - that is called a leaf. When you put two into a table, you are putting two leaves into a table, just like you don't have two leafs on a tree, but two leaves. The plural of leaf (no matter what type it is) is leaves. I'm not usually such a grammar drama queen, and I love the Headway theme and the ease of making changes to it, but I just hadda say it.

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

remarkablogger — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:18:53 -0000

Great overview, Danny. You&#39re a good man for donating your affiliate money to charity. Never seen a better reason for folks to buy through an affiliate link. :-)

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Michael Martine — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:18:53 -0000

Great overview, Danny. You're a good man for donating your affiliate money to charity. Never seen a better reason for folks to buy through an affiliate link. :-)

Re: Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design

Corey Freeman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:33:19 -0000

Headway definitely just got so much more insane. If you think doing all of that minus the CSS is amazing, for us design dorks sexy changes will be coming. ;)

I&#39m so glad they fixed the navigation CSS (or simplified it?) because now I can actually edit it. Mwahahahahaha.