Most people know by now that I love the new Headway 1.5 premium WordPress theme. If anyone asks what theme they should go with on their blog or website, I always recommend Clay Griffiths’ theme.
Now that Headway 1.5 has been officially released, however, the real power behind it will start to show as more people start exploring its engine room. This goes for normal bloggers like me as well as hardcore developers and coders.
For example, one of the features that some WordPress theme developers are talking about is the drop-down navigation menu. This is a really useful option to let you highlight features and services that you might offer but would otherwise take up space on your navigation bar. The problem is, most other themes need you to mess with the CSS code just to enable drop-down navigation. Not Headway 1.5.
In fact, not only can you set up a drop-down nav menu, you can rearrange the tabs as you go, as well as the position of the nav menu itself. And did I mention this is all without a single drop of CSS coding? And better still, all the changes happenin front of your eyes – no need for jumping back and forth between saves to see the changes.
While content may be king, you can’t dismiss good site design and Headway 1.5 makes it simple for anyone to have the latter taken care of.
And who doesn’t like simple?
- Disclaimer. I’ve been impressed with the Headway premium WordPress theme from the start and it’s the only theme I’ve ever set an affiliate account up with. If you’re thinking of buying Headway 1.5 and do so via any of my links, 50% of the affiliation revenue will be donated to the current 12for12k charity on your behalf.
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I’ve been looking into Headway recently and this does, as you say, make things really ’simple’ for the end user.
Karl
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Hey there Karl,
The great thing with Headway is that anyone can use it. It’s great for me, as I’m no coder, yet it also uses the WordPress hooks system and full CSS and XHTML if you’re a developer and really want to get your hands dirty.
And Clay (the developer) is always tinkering to help the end user experience – and you can’t ask for much more than that.
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The premium Thesis theme also has this easy drop-down function. I really love how these developers are making our lives so much easier!
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Agreed, Alison, although what I prefer with Headway over Thesis is that it’s on-screen in front of you; no need to jump back and forth and save. Also, you can re-arrange the child and “sub-child” page tabs to anywhere you want; you’re not stuck with how they drop in. And you can place separate lines, etc, between tabs without having to dive into the CSS code.
For someone like me that just wants to concentrate on blogging and not worry about tiresome code when I want to change things up, this puts Headway miles above the rest.
Cheers for stopping by!