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

True, but with that kind of theme, you may never have to buy another canned theme again. Free upgrades for life too.

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.

Thanks for sharing, Jill. This looks thoroughly bad a$$.

Hey, I gave you fair warning in the thread title.

I went looking for a theme the day before yesterday and found this, had to sleep on it, had to watch the video again, and finally gave in.

Like I said, I spent a few hours playing.

You never realize it - they give you a limited amount of fonts to work with but there are enough to get you going. So, if you don't have a clear picture in your head of what you are going to do with it you will spend time flipping things back and forth, changing colors, moving menus around, etc.

I finally decided it was best to purchase a banner first (10 bucks in the WSO's) and build the rest of the site colors and themes around it.

This will save me some additional time and may be the way to go to really speed up what you are doing.

why is "remove footer credit" in both of those? weird

John, there is an option on the back end for $40 to get additional license for your customers. So, if you create a site for someone you can charge them that in your fees. They get lifetime updates as well.

Also, currently you need to disable plugins to use the drag and drop editor.

I am planning to use this on a members site, so I inquired the process to work on the theme - you have to copy the mysql database to do it right now.

This is actually version 2 of the software. When you buy you can get version 1 as well (included)

They appear to be working on it, so I imagine it's only a matter of time before there is a solution for backing up the theme you create in an easier way.

WTH - I thought a developer license would be a lot less restrictive?

Oh well....

It was a nice thought while it lasted.

Hi! Welcome to the Warrior Forum!

(I feel like such a trouble maker)

Hi Grant, welcome to the forum! I'm a niche site kinda guy, so I've got an ever-expanding number of sites. Are you planning on making the personal license cover unlimited sites?

LOL, I have the same issue.

Fair warning - careful what you ask for.

Like I said, Negative: You can move stuff all over the place and have a million options

This is not always a good thing.

Best to have some ideas in mind before using this theme. Integrate it around some kind of specific idea or you will feel like you are an artist staring at a blank canvas.

Just add an H1 tag where you want it and define the attributes in the CSS file.

Too bad they don't have examples of the different types of sites that can be created.

It's one thing to say what it can do but another to show it. How about showing a landing page, sales page, or corporate type layout.

Also, can you drag and drop the video player that they use on their site?

Kevin

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but according to the video it's Valid XHTML / CSS.

Look like Thesis for non-coders. Little more bloat due to that, but doesn't look bad.
if you are a non-coder, by the time you add a child theme with thesis, that bloats it up too.

I Like it.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Cheers
Sue

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.

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.