If Shiny New Things Distract You, Don't Open This Thread

[Chris Koltai]

Originally Posted by Grant Griffiths

Hey Chris --

In a word, yup. There will still be a personal license and a developers license. The difference will be the level of support.

Amazing, thank you. I'll definitely be purchasing.

[Art Peterson]

Anything drag and drop is perfect for me.
Time is to valuable to try to make things perfect.
Thanks for the post.

Art P

[Mr KaChing]

great find Jill... have couple of questions

1) Is all the customization we do with the drag/drop functionality of this theme stored as a child theme? If not will this break the customization done when upgrading to newer version of Headway?

2) I guess Headway is the theme framework and doesn't break any of the core functionality of wordpress when upgrading to new version of wordpress. Is that right?

[Grant Griffiths]

Blitzian - You will not have issues upgrading from this version to any future version of Headway. Care has been taken in 1.5 to make sure of this. And upgrading to new versions of WordPress will not be an issue either. Thanks for your questions.

Full disclosure - I am one of the co-founders of Headway Themes. Not going to provide a link, you will have to find that on your own.

[Grant Griffiths]

Kevin - There are some examples of sites on the Headway Themes site if you scroll down. Some were done with some custom.css and there are many that were built with just the abilities of Headway.

Full disclosure - I am one of the co-founders of Headway Themes. Not going to provide a link, you will have to find that on your own.

[Fraserb]

Having spent about 5 / 10 miutes on the site, as a bit of a newbie this look great. Do they do a free trial option? If not am I best starting off with basic version?

Fraser

[Grant Griffiths]

Fraserb - There is only one "version" of Headway. Grab the latest version of 1.5 and just start using it. We do not offer a free trial option. The key is to take your time and just play around with all the features and abilities of Headway when you first get it. One thing I would encourage every one to do is to get a good color chart and make sure your colors and fonts look good when you are working on the site you are building with Headway. We have seen some great sites built with Headway and some awful ones too.

If you have any questions after you purchase, jump on the forums. Clay, the developer of Headway personally spends time on the forums helping out our users.

Full disclosure - I am one of the co-founders of Headway Themes. Not going to provide a link, you will have to find that on your own.

[Jill Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Blitzian

great find Jill... have couple of questions

1) Is all the customization we do with the drag/drop functionality of this theme stored as a child theme? If not will this break the customization done when upgrading to newer version of Headway?

2) I guess Headway is the theme framework and doesn't break any of the core functionality of wordpress when upgrading to new version of wordpress. Is that right?

Honestly, I'm not a techie and just getting familiar with it all. There doesn't appear to be a "child" theme. They just came out with this version very recently. Upgrade notes were provided inside.

I installed this on the latest version of WP, so I can't say what would happen with upgrades but I do know I can flip back to old style themes.

It seems to create some of it's own plugins/widgets. You can add containers on the fly and then move them around. If I flip back to an old theme, the ones created using headway go poof - but come back again on reactivation.

As I mentioned before, the only drawback I'm seeing right now is that I need to deactivate plugins in order to use the visual editor (which I don't know that I particularly want to do with my membership plugins) - or:

The changes you make to Headway via the visual editor or anywhere in your browser does not actually change the files in your Headway folder. It's stored to the MySQL database. You'll probably have to import/export the Headway tables whenever you want to transfer changes.

No guts no glory. For now I'm just going to do my best to arrange the theme the way I want it and run with it.

I'm taking the easy route of plunking in a banner at the top and will then add some colors to the links, select some complimentary fonts, define the containers a bit, pick some subtle color changes and hopefully that will be that.

Oh, and the sidebars need to be defined as well.

I'll probably set up a couple of playgrounds on some subdomains and see how the flipflopping things goes.

There is a style sheet and a custom css sheet in the back, again, I have not a clue how to use those just yet.

[Mr KaChing]

Grant - thank you for the clarification.

Another question that I have is that after customization of the layout with the drag/drop functionality - is it possible to replicate that across multiple sites without having do to the customization again? - Currently I do this with Hybrid/Thematic theme frameworks creating a child theme (basically all modifications go into custom.css, i like your theme offering ability to come up with multiple layouts without having to mess with custom.css)

And as a few other warriors suggested wouldn't mind paying a higher price as a one time fee to get the developer license (instead of one license for every client) - thank you for considering.

[sashagrey]

Originally Posted by avenuegirl

I spent a good 4 hours playing with this yesterday.

You'll need to watch a video:

Headway Premium WordPress Theme

Once you get the hang of it, it really does go quite quick.

Positive: You can move stuff all over the place and you have a million options

Negative: You can move stuff all over the place and have a million options

I don't think this is good for people with no design sense what so ever. The majority of sites I saw that were built with this were nice, but there are a few uglys in the mix. Those ones look like a blind man who has dressed himself not knowing someone mixed up all their clothes.

I'm back to playing now.

thanks for the theme suggestion.

It's very nice but your right, the flexibility can get in the way of finishing a site... just so many options.

[Grant Griffiths]

Blitzian - we are making changes very soon in the license and you will get what you want with the developers license. In fact, you can purchase now and rest assured you will have the right to use it on unlimited sites.

I am not the techie of the two of us and your question about copying the work and putting it on another site would have to be directed to Clay. However, I can tell you that he is already hard at work on v1.6 where he is hammering out the ability to import/export for just that purpose. Included in 1.6 and using the import/export feature will be the ability to build skins or Styles as we like to call them to use on other sites. We are also going to set up a place for people to market Headway specific "skins" Styles. This will be great as it will be a way for people to make money off of the work they are doing with Headway and building styles.

Headway is fairly new as we launched v1.0 on July 31st. However, I think you can see we have come a long way in a very short time. And we are not going to rest on being happy with versions as we release them. In fact, we have ideas on the whiteboard for the next version before the current one is even done. We try to listen to what our users are telling us and if it can be done without bloating the code, we try to add features and abilities to Headway as we see a need.

Full disclosure - I am one of the co-founders of Headway Themes. Not going to provide a link, you will have to find that on your own.

[Grant Griffiths]

sashagrey - One of the great things about Headway is all the stuff you can do with it. One of the disadvantages of Headway is all the stuff you can do with it. I know from my own experience using it, you have to know when to say when. LOL

Full disclosure - I am one of the co-founders of Headway Themes. Not going to provide a link, you will have to find that on your own.

[Mr KaChing]

Jill - just saw your post, had been typing at the same time.

Ok the MYSQL thingy makes sense. So long as all the changes made to the visual editor goes into a separate MYSQL table, that should be pretty easy to do the import without messing up other tables.

you are right disabling plugins like the membership plugins to make changes to the site probably affects your membership users during the downtime.

May be Grant can chime in if there is some way to overcome that or if something is in development.

[Mr KaChing]

Grant - that is awesome, excellent direction in terms of the skin styles concept. Will pick up my copy.

[Grant Griffiths]

One of the problem with plugins is plugins. There are so many it is almost impossible to support them all. We are however visiting with Wishlist to make sure Headway is completely compatible with it.

I have to tell you a story about plugins and how some people get just a little carried away with them. We had a new user who wanted to move their blog from one theme to Headway. They were cussing us and if they could, I think they would have thrown their computer at us. So, Clay offered to help and went into their blog's admin. What he found was a sure fire reason Headway or any other theme for that matter would work for them. They had a total of over 40 active plugins running on their blog. OMG

Plugins cause problems for all of us who provide a product or theme. And Headway is no exception. If you look at most of our TOS's we state right in the language that we can not support plugins. Again, there is just no way to make sure a "theme" or a framework for that matter will work with all of the zillions of plugins out there. I can assure you we do everything we can if it can be done.

[Zanti]

Just a couple of quick questions for any of you who have purchased and started working with Headway.

Well, what do you think?

How is it for creating Squeeze pages, Sale pages and for membership sites?

Has anyone used Headway along with a RAP membership site?

Thanks

Z

[Matt D]

Originally Posted by Grant Griffiths

Blitzian - we are making changes very soon in the license and you will get what you want with the developers license. In fact, you can purchase now and rest assured you will have the right to use it on unlimited sites.

Grant - if you are still watching this thread -- are you saying the current developer's license will also cover future sites built for clients or will there be an upgrade required?

Also-- regarding the handling of H1 tags... Does it incorporate h1 tags into the title on the page or like many themes are the h1 tags wasted in the head section with the blog title in <h1> on every page.

This wordpress seo issue is discussed here in more detail by Scot Hendison:
My Secret WordPress H1 Hack | Search Commander Blog - Scott Hendison

Thanks!
Matt

[Keith Boisvert]

I spent some time reviewing this today. I am interested in the developers license($164) and have multiple sites that I can use this on.

I was initially concerned about the ability to "graphically" make it the way I want, but by the examples listed it looks like it can be done. However, I am by far not a css genius, so right now that is my only "sticking" point to purchasing this. I love the flexibility, just have to keep doing more research on the graphic aspect.

I think it will be a great asset.

keith

[Jill Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Zanti

Just a couple of quick questions for any of you who have purchased and started working with Headway.

Well, what do you think?

How is it for creating Squeeze pages, Sale pages and for membership sites?

Has anyone used Headway along with a RAP membership site?

Thanks

Z

Well, I know nothing about Rap (came very close and chickened out) but I am using a membership plugin right now, adding what should be a protected post and will hopefully have something up by tonight to test.

I can already see how quick it will be to make squeeze pages. The pages don't automatically have a sidebar on them so you are running in free open spaces. Just a matter of making the squeeze page the front of the site, and I could add a link for members to just log in.

[Zanti]

Thank you Jill, will you let us know how it goes with your membership site.

I'm actually getting started with RAP and RAP Press for my membership and other sites.

Thanks again,

Z

Brian "Zanti" Alexzander

[SusanneUK]

Thanks Jill for posting about this theme

Can anyone using the theme now tell me if we can put out own background image in, or at least pick a color for it?

Grant,

Hope you are still monitoring this thread. It is not completely clear, to me at least, the issue of the developers licence. I am starting work with a new client tomorrow and this theme would be ideal, so hoping for an answer on this one.

If I buy the developer theme as it stands now, are you saying I won't have to worry about this additional $40 thing for my clients? I would like to buy a developers licence where I can take out the footer link, on as many sites as I need and that I do not have to worry about this $40 additional payment per client thing? Is that correct?

Thanks
Sue

[Christian Fox]

Damn you! There goes my evening...

Wow just watched the video, this theme kicks ass...

[Grant Griffiths]

You won't have to worry about purchasing any other licenses to build client sites if you have the developer's license. Do not worry about the additional $40 as it is listed now. Use it on as many client sites as you want.

[Grant Griffiths]

Matt - let me check on the H1 question of yours. But I can assure you, a lot of thought and work was put into the SEO features of Headway. We have people using it and clients we have built custom sites on it for who are getting great SEO and search engine placement quickly.

[Adam Lok]

Originally Posted by Chris Koltai

For anyone looking to get this: If you google "headway coupon code" there are a ton of sites offering discounts if you buy through their link, so you can save a bit of cash.

Just be careful not all affiliates will keep to their word.

Clay has indicated that his company has nothing to do with affiliates that are offering rebates. Headway do nothing but offer coupons only.

However, he may start banning affiliates if it gets more reports about bad affiliates not doing what they say they are doing.

If you have similar bad experiences, do bring it up to Headway Theme/G2WebMedia.

[Grant Griffiths]

Adam- You are exactly correct. If we hear of any of our affiliates offering coupons and not following through with it, they will be shut off as affiliates. We do from time to time offer a discount, such as this weekend for Black Friday.

If any of you have a bad experience with any of our affiliates, please send me an email grant at g2webmedia dot com

[Adam Sussman]

Hi Grant,

I just bought the developers License.

Can I just confirm that your reply to SusanneUK applies to all of us.

You won't have to worry about purchasing any other licenses to build client sites if you have the developer's license. Do not worry about the additional $40 as it is listed now. Use it on as many client sites as you want.

Thanks

Adam

[Pat Ordenes]

I have to say..
i purchased this theme, and was very excited....
But now I'm just frustrated.
The visual editor is a GREAT concept, don't get me wrong.
but as it stands, its is very slow, buggy and not as great as I thought it would be.

I really though I could use it to develop sites for clients, but I can't say I'm convinced...

Give it try though... i'm sure the next release might be better... It just feels the 1.5 version was very rushed.

[SusanneUK]

I have not had much time to assess this yet as I have been working with some clients but I particularly wanted it because I thought I could add in a leaf (or whatever LOL) so that I can add some "Featured content" wherever I might want it but from I saw, I could only get it in the sidebar, I need to be able to get it into the main content area, however, this could be just that I have not found out how to exactly do that having not had much time to look it over - anyone who is using this theme, do you know if you can get a featured area showing the main content area?

Cheers
Sue

[Jesus Perez]

This is a really great theme. This part alone sold me:

Separate Titles from Blog Post/Page Headlines: There’s an HTML tag in every web page called title, and what’s in it carries a lot of importance in search’s used as the big headline text you click on in search results. Google and Bing look at the words in the title to help decide how to rank a page. Normally in WordPress, the title is automatically generated from your blog post headline, but sometimes we want it to be a little different. WordPress alone won’t let you change that, but Headway does.

This theme is very well made.

[Michael Nguyen]

Does anyone know how this compares to Flexsqueeze. I though flexsqueeze was good but this seems on another level.

[Pat Ordenes]

Hey Sue,
You need to use a content leaf.
this can be placed anywhere on the page.
go to its setting and set in to post, then you can also pick a preferred category.
Hope that helps.
If not, PM me.

[Ilya Feynberg]

Good Lord!!!!!

This is exactly something that I've been looking for!

Thank You Thank You Thank You....oh and Thank you!

[SusanneUK]

Originally Posted by Pat Ordenes

Hey Sue,
You need to use a content leaf.
this can be placed anywhere on the page.
go to its setting and set in to post, then you can also pick a preferred category.
Hope that helps.
If not, PM me.

Thanks Pat, I will check that out tomorrow and thanks for the offer of the pm help if needed

Cheers
Sue

[n00b]

I just have to chime in here and let you all know how in love I am with Headway! I didn't realize it, but I must have gotten started right after they launched because I did a site in the beginning of August using Headway. When I bought it I felt like a Thesis refugee and I was incredibly skeptical about the ease of use. Well, even before the drag and drop editor the whole experience was a breeze. The few times I've had questions (which BTW turned out it was me just being dumb) they were answered incredibly quickly, usually within an hour.

The developers are also very open to feedback and on the forums they actually want to know what you would like to see changed and from the newer version it's clear they listen.

My hubby who is very WP illiterate sat down with Headway and made a site within about 45 minutes (it was his first WP site). He even used a hook to add scrolling text to the top of the homepage (very shocked on that one). His site looked good aside from the colors, but Headway can't be held responsible for my husband's lack of any sense of color palettes .

The only thing it's lacking that would make it perfect is what some have already mentioned, the ability to export the "theme" that you create so it is easily duplicated across multiple sites.

I really can't imagine anyone being dissatisfied with Headway.

[catherine ford]

Great theme fantastically easy to use and also good affiliate earnings as well
Catherine

[Anonymous Affiliate]

The concept looks good, but the website sample portfolio they show on their site look all awful. There's no decent looking blog in there.

[Grant Griffiths]

Noob - the import/export function will be in a very near release. Be watching for details on this and how we hope our users take the feature and run with it. For those who build Headway "skins" in the near future, we plan to make it very easy and profitable for you to market your "skins" to the world.

[Grant Griffiths]

Anonymous Affiliate - The great thing about "decent looking" is we all define it differently. There are 100's of blogs and sites on Headway now. The problem is we have not had a chance to update our examples. In the very near future we will have a Headway gallery for everyone to see. In fact, we hope to provide a quick and easy way for those using Headway to submit their URL's so they can be added to the gallery.

[Jill Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Grant Griffiths

Noob - the import/export function will be in a very near release. Be watching for details on this and how we hope our users take the feature and run with it. For those who build Headway "skins" in the near future, we plan to make it very easy and profitable for you to market your "skins" to the world.

Grant, how can I contact you directly?

I can't pm you unless you have 50 posts or are a war room member.

Thanks,

Jill

[DavidO]

I'm very interested in giving this a try but I agree with the other poster about the sample sites. There's not a single decent site in there. If you're going to offer examples it should be something to get people excited and inspired. In this aspect, themeforest is way better.

Also, the video's not working.

Of course, ease of use and functionality are super important. I'll keep an open mind about it until I can try it out but just wanted to comment on first impressions.

[Grant Griffiths]

Jill - You can drop me an email grant at g2webmedia dot com

[Grant Griffiths]

David -- Let us see if we can find some of the other great sites on Headway. Also, what video is not working for you. The one on the home page of the Headway site is working fine for me on all browsers.

[Grant Griffiths]

And I would post some links here, but I am not allowed to yet. Bugger!

[Jill Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Grant Griffiths

And I would post some links here, but I am not allowed to yet. Bugger!

Join the war room for $37 bucks. I have a nice video about it in my signature. Not an affiliate link.