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		<title>Headway Theme 3.0 Review and Sneak Peak</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a review of the Headway theme 3.0 &#8211; due to be released on November 25th 2011.  Headway 3.0 is a complete change to the Headway theme. The guys had already produced an innovative WordPress theme, now they&#8217;ve completely increased the functionality and the value this theme provides. This blog uses Headway theme and...]]></description>
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<p>This is a review of the <strong>Headway theme 3.0</strong> &#8211; due to be released on November 25th 2011.  Headway 3.0 is a complete change to the Headway theme. The guys had already produced an innovative WordPress theme, now they&#8217;ve completely increased the functionality and the value this theme provides.</p>
<p>This blog uses <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway theme</a> and I&#8217;ve been using it since it was released in 2009. I&#8217;ve mentioned in previous posts how easy Headway is to use, and how it gives you a lot of extra options.</p>
<p>As an example, I used to use one of the WordPress SEO plugins to help customise my post SEO. Once I started using Headway I could stop using the plugin because Headway gave me all those options.</p>
<p>The thing I like most about Headway theme is how easy it is to customise the look of my site. I&#8217;ve set up my own templates for blog posts, the main page and other pages. I&#8217;m not stuck with a standard look (like you are with other templates).</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve created pages that look completely different to other ones. For example if you <a title="Subscribe" href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/subscribe/">subscribe</a> to my email list, you&#8217;ll be taken to a download page. That page doesn&#8217;t have a sidebar so it looks different to the other pages. Was this hard to do? No. I simply took my standard template, removed the sidebar and extended the width of the content leaf.</p>
<h2>So, what&#8217;s changing in Headway Theme 3.0?</h2>
<p>I&#8217;ve been using the Beta version of <strong>Headway Theme 3.0</strong> for the past month on a test site. Whilst I&#8217;m still getting used to it, it&#8217;s a huge step forward over version 2.0 (and I&#8217;m very happy with Headway 2.0!).</p>
<p><strong><em>The main change is that they&#8217;ve moved to a grid system</em></strong>. In the past Headway has used content &#8216;leafs&#8217;. These leafs could be positioned on your page and would display text, pictures etc. With version 2.0, Headway introduced columns. This enabled you to position your leafs within a column structure &#8211; this was great and made positioning of leafs a lot better.</p>
<p>With <em>Headway Theme 3.0</em>, they&#8217;re introducing a grid system. This is so easy to use, and makes designing a site so easy.</p>
<p>With the Headway grid system, you simply click and draw your box on the grid, and then select the type of box you want &#8211; is it a header or navigation bar? Perhaps it&#8217;s content or a picture? It&#8217;s so simple to quickly position a bunch of boxes on your page.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the grid system found in Headway theme 3.0.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>
<div id="attachment_1088" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Headway-Theme-3.0-Visual-Editor.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-1088 " title="Headway Theme 3.0 Visual Editor" src="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Headway-Theme-3.0-Visual-Editor-1024x265.png" alt="Headway Theme 3.0 Visual Editor" width="614" height="159" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Headway Theme 3.0 showing the grid layout system</p></div>
<p>And once you&#8217;ve got that page looking the way you want it to, you can easily change the look of it. What fonts do you want to use? What about the font size? Header fonts and sizes? There&#8217;s so much that can easily be changed.</p>
<h2>Make each page different in Headway 3.0</h2>
<p>Sometimes you want your pages to look different. You may want a home page that&#8217;s got a lot of content summaries on it with the intention that readers click through to read full articles. That page will probably look different to your <a title="About" href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/about/" target="_blank">About</a> page.</p>
<p>And maybe you want to produce a squeeze page. You probably don&#8217;t want a sidebar on that page, or any distracting navigation options. You probably just want a page full of text and images. It&#8217;s easy in Headway. Tick a couple of boxes to remove the header and navigation and the rest is easy.</p>
<p><strong><em>How about the ability to customise individual blog posts?</em></strong> I haven&#8217;t looked deeply into this but it looks like a winner. You&#8217;ve probably got a few blog posts that get a lot of traffic. Maybe you could add some extra content boxes to this individual blog article &#8211; perhaps an affiliate offer or an extra sign up box. You can do this at the individual article level in Headway 3.0.</p>
<p>And of course there are the Headway &#8216;hooks&#8217;. These enable you to insert content in various locations throughout your pages. I&#8217;ve got my financial planning website and need to put a disclaimer under every article. I could include it when I write the article, but then it forms part of the article text. Instead, I include it as a hook. A while back the disclaimer needed to change. Instead of having to manually edit each article (over 50!) I simply changed the hook. It was a one minute job and instantly updated the disclaimer throughout my site.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a short video from the Headway developers showing some of the features of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Headway Theme 3.0</span>.</p>
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<h2>Headway Theme 3.0 Pricing</h2>
<p><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway Theme 3.0</a> is released on the 25th November. <em><strong>But you&#8217;ll need to buy it before then. Here&#8217;s why.</strong></em></p>
<p>Up to now, Headway has operated on a once-only fee to purchase the theme. There&#8217;s a Personal option and a Developer&#8217;s option, but either way, there&#8217;s a one-off cost to purchase the theme. Once you&#8217;ve got your licence, you get unlimited support and access to their forums (which rock!), and upgrades for life.</p>
<p><strong>Once Headway 3.0 is released, the pricing changes.</strong> To upgrade to a Developer&#8217;s licence will cost more, and they&#8217;re moving to an annual renewal fee to cover access to upgrades and support. The way I understand this, is that if you buy after the 25th and don&#8217;t pay the annual fee when it falls due, you won&#8217;t get any upgraded versions and won&#8217;t get any support.</p>
<p><em>So, if you&#8217;ve sitting on the fence about buying Headway theme, it&#8217;s time to make a decision.</em></p>
<p><strong>If you purchase before Headway 3.0 is released on the 25th, you&#8217;ll be able to buy it under the &#8216;old&#8217; pricing structure &#8211; a once only fee and access to upgrades and support for life.</strong> If you buy it on or after the 25th, you&#8217;ll be paying an yearly fee if you want upgrades (and you will want them!).</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been very happy with Headway. I&#8217;ve learnt a lot about customising it with only a limited knowledge of CSS and HTML but even that&#8217;s not necessary to build a good looking site. The drag and drop concept allows you to build good looking sites without any programming knowledge.</p>
<p>Head over to the <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway site</a> today and buy your copy before the 25th and beat the price rise.</p>
<p>If you have any questions, leave a comment below and I&#8217;ll answer them.<br />
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		<title>Headway Theme &#8211; How To Hide Pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this tutorial I&#8217;ll show you how easy it is to use the Headway WordPress theme to create new pages that are hidden from the usual site navigation. In WordPress, when you create a new page, it&#8217;s automatically added to your navigation menu.  This is fine sometimes, but there are also occasions where you don&#8217;t...]]></description>
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<p>In this tutorial I&#8217;ll show you how easy it is to use the Headway WordPress theme to cre<a href="Headway WordPress Theme Ad"><img class="alignright" style="margin: 5px;" title="Headway Theme" src="../wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Headway125x125.png" alt="Headway WordPress Theme Ad" width="125" height="125" /></a>ate new pages that are hidden from the usual site navigation.</p>
<p>In WordPress, when you create a new page, it&#8217;s automatically added to your navigation menu.  This is fine sometimes, but there are also occasions where you don&#8217;t want those pages in your navigation bar. For example, on this site I&#8217;ve created a page called &#8216;<a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/disclosure/" target="_blank">Affiliate Disclosure</a>&#8216; which discloses the fact that some of the links in my blog are affiliate links. Now, I don&#8217;t want this page title appearing in my main navigation bar &#8211; I want to limit the pages that appear there. Instead, I&#8217;ve placed a link to it in my footer &#8211; this appears on every page.</p>
<p>In this example, the page is excluded from the navigation bar, but links to the page still appear on my blog.</p>
<p>On other occasions you may want to create a page that&#8217;s completely hidden. I&#8217;ve done that on this site with a couple of pages. When you <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/subscribepage">subscribe</a> to my newsletter and enter your email details, you&#8217;re taken to a page on my blog that tells you what to expect next. Once you&#8217;ve confirmed your subscription, you&#8217;re directed to another hidden page that contains the e-book download.  I created these pages the same way that I created the affiliate disclosure page.</p>
<h2>How Do You Hide A Page In WordPress?</h2>
<p>I&#8217;ve used a few different themes, and in a lot of them it&#8217;s a pain to hide a page.  They seem to work on the assumption that every page you create needs to appear in the navigation bar and don&#8217;t give you an option to hide them.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve used<a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway"> Headway theme</a> for a couple of years now, and it&#8217;s so easy to hide a page using Headway.  Here&#8217;s how to do it.</p>
<p><strong>Step 1 &#8211; Create your page as usual.</strong> In WordPress, create a new page and add your content as usual.</p>
<p><strong>Step 2 &#8211; No Index and No Follow the page.</strong> On the &#8216;New Page&#8217; screen, towards the bottom, Headway gives you some options.</p>
<p><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No-Index-and-No-Follow-Screenshot.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-776" style="margin: 5px;" title="No Index and No Follow Screenshot" src="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No-Index-and-No-Follow-Screenshot-300x154.png" alt="" width="300" height="154" /></a></p>
<p>I tend to tick all three boxes although you don&#8217;t need to.</p>
<p>The important one to tick is the first box &#8211; &#8216;noindex this page&#8217;.</p>
<p>What this box does is to tell Headway to exclude this page from your blog sitemap. It also adds the <em>noindex</em> tag to the page so Google&#8217;s robots don&#8217;t crawl the page and don&#8217;t index it.</p>
<p>If you didn&#8217;t tick this box, then Google would index the page (it&#8217;d find it via the sitemap). Once the site was indexed, people could find it by doing a Google search. So if you&#8217;ve created a great product and set up a hidden page for it to be downloaded from, people could find that page by searching Google, instead of paying for the product.</p>
<p>So, as a general rule of thumb, any page you want hidden needs to be hidden not just from your navigation, but also from Google and this box does that.</p>
<p><strong>Step 3 &#8211; Hide the page from the navigation bar.</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Hide-From-Navigation-Screenshot.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-777" style="margin: 5px;" title="Hide From Navigation Screenshot" src="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Hide-From-Navigation-Screenshot.png" alt="" width="287" height="186" /></a></strong>On the right hand side toolbar options when you&#8217;re creating a new page is a box called &#8216;Navigation&#8217;.</p>
<p>This one is pretty self-explanatory. The screen shot on the left shows the default option &#8211; Show In Navigation. This means that the new page will appear in your navigation bar.</p>
<p>Because we want to hide this particular page, we select the &#8216;Hide From Navigation&#8217; box. When the page is saved and live on your blog, the page exists, but it won&#8217;t appear anywhere in your navigation bar.</p>
<p>If you change your mind in the future, you can select the other box instead and it&#8217;ll appear in your navigation menu.</p>
<p><strong>Step 4 &#8211; Make a note of the new URL.</strong></p>
<p>You&#8217;ll need to know the URL of the page, so you can link to it in the future.  In Headway you&#8217;re able to change the page name to whatever you want. Why would you do this?  Let&#8217;s assume you&#8217;ve set up a page where people can download your new ebook. You call the page &#8216;Download&#8217;. Some people will come to your site and try random URL&#8217;s to find the page. And can you guess how common it is for people to use &#8216;Download&#8217; as the name of their download page? I tend to call it something completely random like &#8216;lfoeio490fndsw&#8217; so no-one can guess it. Again, this is very easy to do within Headway.</p>
<h2>Setting up e-book delivery</h2>
<p>I recently helped a friend set up his blog so people could purchase his e-book and download it from his site.  The first step was to set up some hidden pages using this process. The next step was to link these pages together with PayPal.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In my next article I&#8217;ll explain how I set this up for him and how easy it is to do within Headway.</p>
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		<title>Headway Theme Version 2 Coming Soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using the Headway WordPress Theme for the past year on a couple of my blogs and I love it. The Headway guys are releasing version 2 soon. The Beta version has been available to those of us with developers licenses for the past month. I&#8217;ve been using it on one blog and I&#8217;m...]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ve been using the <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway WordPress Theme</a> for the past year on a couple of my blogs and I love it. The Headway guys are releasing version 2 soon. The Beta version has been available to those of us with developers licenses for the past month. I&#8217;ve been using it on one blog and I&#8217;m very excited by the new features it provides.</p>
<p>One of the cool things about the Headway theme has been watching the Headway community grow over the past year. One of the benefits of this is that there&#8217;s a sizeable pool of people who can beta test the new versions.  The current beta version of Headway has been around for the past month and has gone through a few updates in that time. Whilst the beta version has probably been in existence for longer than the Headway developers intended, the longer beta testing time should ensure that there are less bugs in the new version once it is released.</p>
<p>Another exciting thing to be aware of is that the Headway guys are calling this new version &#8216;Version 2&#8242;. Rather than just see it as a continuation of the existing version 1, they see it as a significant enhancement to the Headway theme and have chosen to call at version 2.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of some of the new features to be found in Headway theme version 2:</p>
<p><strong>New Headway templates.</strong> one of the criticisms of Headway in the past, has been that it is difficult to set up if you&#8217;re using it for the first time. This changes with the new version. When you&#8217;re setting up the theme for the first time, it allows you to choose from a number of predefined templates i.e. single column, two column etc. In addition, you can upload your logo as part of this process and Headway will base the colours of the new templates on the colours in your existing logo. This makes it very easy to get a good looking site up and running in no time.</p>
<p><strong>Introducing Headway Columns.</strong> In the past, some people have found it difficult to align their leaves properly. in this new version of Headway there is an option to set up your pages based on a number of columns. For example, you may want to set up a blog page with a left and right sidebar as well as a middle content area. To do this now, you would use the visual editor to set up a three column page and you would resize the outside columns to the correct width of your sidebars. Adding leaf is now becomes really simple, as you drag the leaf into the column where you want it to be displayed.</p>
<p><strong>Extra Leaf Containers.</strong> Another interesting feature of the new version of Headway is the ability to add a top and /or bottom leaf container to your pages. you may want to add a line of advertising to the top page of your blog. you can simply add a top leaf container to your page and add a HTML leaf to this container to insert the code for the ads.</p>
<p><strong>Search Engine Results Preview.</strong> This new feature shows up when you are writing a new posts or adding a new page. in the SEO section below the post, Headway will provide a preview of how the article could appear in the Google search engine results. This gives you a good idea of how the title and description will appear.</p>
<p>This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the changes to the Headway theme. There are a bunch of other changes and enhancements that will make this WordPress theme even better.</p>
<p>At this point there is no definite release date of this new version of Headway &#8211; I hope it will be released later this month. Now, I&#8217;m happy using the beta version on one site and getting used to the new features.</p>
<p>I understand that once new release is out, the price of Headway will be increasing. Personally, I think it&#8217;s a bargain at the current price. There are two options &#8212; a personal option and a developer option. Have a look at the <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway site</a> to see which option best suits your needs. When you buy Headway, not only do you gain access to the excellent forums and support, but you&#8217;ll also receive lifetime upgrades.  So, buy it now and beat the price rise.</p>
<p>Over the next few months, I&#8217;ll be writing a number of Headway tutorials and producing some videos to show you more of how I&#8217;m using this excellent WordPress theme.</p>
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		<title>Headway Theme Review &#8211; Version 1.6</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this article I&#8217;ll review the latest version of the Headway WordPress theme, version 1.6. I&#8217;ll look at what&#8217;s changed from previous versions of the Headway theme and provide my honest opinion on my experiences using it. Headway Theme Version 1.6 &#8211; what&#8217;s new? Back in April when the original version of Headway 1.6 was...]]></description>
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<p>In this article I&#8217;ll review the latest version of the <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway WordPress theme</a>, version 1.6. I&#8217;ll look at what&#8217;s changed from previous versions of the Headway theme and provide my honest opinion on my experiences using it.</p>
<h2>Headway Theme Version 1.6 &#8211; what&#8217;s new?</h2>
<p>Back in April when the original version of Headway 1.6 was issued I wrote <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/headway-wordpress-theme-version-1-6/" target="_blank">this post</a> explaining some of the changes. Now that I&#8217;ve used it for a few months, I feel qualified to go into more detail about some of these changes.</p>
<h2>Headway Skins and Styles</h2>
<p>For a while Headway had been promising the introduction of skins and styles. With the latest version they&#8217;ve delivered.</p>
<p>A quick explanation of skins and styles is in order.  Styles gives you the ability to save the fonts and formatting of your blog.  So you may decide to have the text in Arial in different sizes etc.  You can save this as a style, experiment with other options and use the style you like the best.</p>
<p>A Headway skin provides a whole lot more.  Think of a skin as the pre-built framework of a site.  It has the header, sidebars, footers etc all formatted, and usually comes with a few different options for colour schemes.  There are some free skins, and some premium ones.  I can see a growing market for Headway skins.  Smart developers will make a range of skins and sell them to people who like the flexibility of Headway, but don&#8217;t want to wast a lot of time trying to design a site from scratch.  A good skin will give you a site that looks great, and free up your time to find good content.</p>
<h2>Your Background Image</h2>
<p>If you have a background image that you&#8217;d like displayed on your site, it&#8217;s now really easy to do with Headway theme.  You just upload the image into Headway, tell it how you want it tiled and it&#8217;s done!  This is so easy to do and you don&#8217;t need any programming knowledge to do so.</p>
<h2>Headway&#8217;s Live CSS Editor</h2>
<p>I&#8217;ve said before how I know very little about CSS.  I&#8217;ve been working on a friend&#8217;s web site and needed to add a bit of CSS code to change some font colours.  It&#8217;s now so easy to do this in Headway with the live CSS editor.  You open the editor up (from within the visual editor), paste in your code and watch the changes happen on your site.  It&#8217;s so easy to use and if you make a mistake it&#8217;s easy to delete the code and start again.  I can see that the CSS editor is something I&#8217;ll use more of in the future.</p>
<h2>Older Features</h2>
<p>Of course, some of the older Headway features are still there and still very useful.</p>
<p>The visual editor makes the design of your site so easy, and I love the ease with which I can experiment with different colour and find options.</p>
<p>The Headway leaf structure is still easy to use.  Occasionally I have some trouble getting the leafs to align properly, but usually I find out it&#8217;s my mistake! Leafs make Headway so easy to use &#8211; you simply drag them to where you want them to go and drop them there.  You can format the size, content etc to get them looking just as you want.  In my opinion, leafs make using Headway so simple, and gives a me a good balance between being able to change the layout of my site without the need for lots of CSS or HTML knowledge.</p>
<h2>The Problems With Headway</h2>
<p>Like any WordPress theme, Headway does have a few bugs.  I mentioned earlier that I sometimes struggle to get the leafs in the right place.  Usually I&#8217;m to blame for this, but it would be good if the visual editor provided a bit more information to make it easier to troubleshoot these problems.</p>
<p>In May I had a problem with one of my newer sites.  When I was adding the background image, the visual editor would freeze and wouldn&#8217;t complete the task.  The Headway support were very helpful and sent me the beta version of the latest update.  The problem actually stopped happening before I loaded the update so we never knew what actually caused it.</p>
<p>There have been the usual number of queries on the Headway forum from people who are having problems.  I&#8217;ve found the forum to be very helpful and responsive whenever I&#8217;ve asked questions.</p>
<h2>Headway support and upgrades</h2>
<p>The Headway forum is beginning to get busy as a lot of new users join and ask questions.  I&#8217;ve posted a few questions on the forum and usually get a response within 24 hours.  I&#8217;ve found a lot of good ideas just from reading the forums.</p>
<p>This version of Headway theme is now up to version 1.6.6.  Whilst they&#8217;ll usually release a beta version of any major upgrades for people with Developer licenses to test, when the &#8216;real&#8217; version is released there are usually still some bugs.  This is to be expected with any WordPress theme where the range of plugins and browsers means it&#8217;s impossible to comprehensively test before it&#8217;s fully released.  Importantly, the guys at Headway are very active in getting updates out there once they find out about any problems.</p>
<p>I like the Headway theme.  I feel that it represents good value for money and it allows me to get my site looking the way I want it to, without having to know a lot about CSS and HTML.</p>
<p>Have a look on their <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">website</a> to see what it can do.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-218" title="Headway Banner" src="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Headway-468x60.jpg" alt="Headway Review" width="468" height="60" /></a></p>
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		<title>Headway WordPress Theme Version 1.6</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Ward</dc:creator>
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<p>I&#8217;ve been using the <strong><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway Theme</a> for WordPress</strong> since last September.  Over that time there have been a couple of upgrades and a growing number of users.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had a couple of problems with the theme and both times my email to support has been answered promptly and the problem fixed.</p>
<p>The latest version of <strong>Headway Theme</strong> &#8211; 1.6 &#8211; has been officially released this week.  It&#8217;s been available to current users for a little while, but the documentation is finally ready and the release has been made public.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a little bit about the upgrade:</p>
<p>Headway 1.6 brings many new features to the table including a skins and leafs API, importing and exporting of “styles”, body background images, and much more.</p>
<p><strong>New Features</strong></p>
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<li>All Headway features in the      WordPress admin have been moved from the Appearance module to Headway’s      own module.</li>
<li>Administration panels have      been redesigned.</li>
<li>Skins and Leafs API. If      you’re a developer, please refer the documentation on how to use the new      APIs.</li>
<li>You can now add a      background image to your site with a simple image uploader.</li>
<li>Ability to import and      export design settings via Styles in the Templates panel in the visual      editor.</li>
<li>Default leaf sets. You can      now set a default leaf set that will be applied to every new page you      make.</li>
<li>Ability to reset leafs on      page.</li>
<li>Faster and easier saving in      the visual editor.</li>
<li>Many speed improvements.      CSS is auto-cached and the amount of queries have been reduced tenfold.</li>
<li>Ability to load JavaScript      libraries in the Headway Configuration panel.</li>
<li>SEO: Automatic page and      post slug cleanup.</li>
<li>Live CSS Editor. Edit your      CSS and see the changes right before your eyes.</li>
</ul>
<p>I&#8217;ve loaded version 1.6 to one of my sites and have found it much easier to use the visual editor.  With the old version, you&#8217;d make changes, hit the save button and wait a number of seconds for the changes to update.  In the new version, the changes are instant.  The visual editor (which has been a feature for a while) is a great feature and makes it easy for people like me to make design changes without any CSS knowledge.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll upgrade this site with the new version over the next week.  I&#8217;ve also made a short video showing some of the enhancements which I&#8217;ll put up on YouTube and post here over the next couple of weeks.</p>
<p>I receive a number of visits from Google for people looking for information on <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway Theme</a>.  If you&#8217;re using it or have any questions about it, please leave a comment below.</p>
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		<title>Headway 1.5 Theme Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Ward</dc:creator>
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<p>As you know, this blog uses the <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway theme</a> for WordPress. I originally started using Headway back in September 2009 and since then, the makers have delivered a number of upgrades. I&#8217;ve been using Headway version 1.5 for a couple of months now  and am enjoying the flexibility it provides.</p>
<p>The biggest change in version 1.5 was the introduction of the Headway visual editor. This allows you to make changes to your site and in many cases you can instantly see the changes on screen, as you make them. For me, this has made it easier to make changes to this site as you don&#8217;t need to have any HTML or CSS knowledge to use it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s always been easy to redesign pages and add and move leaves on pages, Headway version 1.5 makes it easier to do that.</p>
<p><span id="more-197"></span>The picture below shows the visual editor for the home page of this site.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/20100226-Headway-Visual-Editor-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-198" title="20100226 Headway Visual Editor 1" src="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/20100226-Headway-Visual-Editor-1-1024x632.jpg" alt="Headway wordpress Theme 1.5 Visual Editor" width="717" height="442" /></a>On the left hand side of the page is a range of drop-down menu options that allow you to change the design, add leafs, change the navigation and change the header and footer information.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Do you want to change your header? In Headway 1.5, you can upload a new header directly from your hard drive using the visual editor.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Adding a new leaf is simple. In the picture above, you would select a leaf you wanted to use from the menu on the left hand side, and press the &#8216;add&#8217; button. This will insert a new leaf onto your page, which you can then resize, and customise the way you want it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Do you want to change the colour of your text? Simple! Just select the text that you want to change, and in the visual editor you&#8217;ll be able to change the font type, colour, size and spacing. This makes it very easy to quickly change the appearance of your blog.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Headway also makes it easy to add and remove pages from your page menu. It&#8217;s easy to create a page and add it to your menu bar, or if you prefer you can remove it from the menu bar. This is useful if you want to create pages within your site that are hidden from view. An example of this could be a newsletter confirmation page. You also have the option of allowing Google to index these sites or not.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Summary</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Overall, I&#8217;m very impressed with this version of Headway.<strong> </strong>The addition of the visual editor is a great enhancement and makes it a lot easier to customise your site.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;ve had a few technical problems with my installation of Headway, and I&#8217;ve been impressed with their technical support. The first time I had involved the installation and Clay from Headway responded to my e-mail very promptly and fixed the problem within a few hours (not bad considering I live in Australia and there is a bit of a time difference).  The second problem revolved around leaf positioning and again Clay fixed it very quickly for me. The support forum continues to grow, and this is a great place to pick up new ideas and interact with other Headway users.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There are two options when <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">buying Headway</a>. The Personal option costs $87 and allows you to install the theme across two websites. The Developer option costs $164 and allows you to install the theme  on any number of websites that you or your company owns.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What do you think? Do you have any questions about the Headway theme? Or have you been using it yourself? Leave a comment below.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I reviewed the Headway WordPress theme that I use on this blog.  At the time I mentioned that one of the attractions of the theme was the ease with which I could design and rearrange the elements on my site. I know I&#8217;m barely scratching the surface of what Headway can...]]></description>
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<p>A few weeks ago I <a title="Headway WordPress Theme Review Pt 1" href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/2009/09/08/headway-wordpress-theme-review-pt-1/" target="_blank">reviewed</a> the <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway</a><strong> WordPress theme</strong> that I use on this blog.  At the time I mentioned that one of the attractions of the theme was the ease with which I could design and rearrange the elements on my site.</p>
<p>I know I&#8217;m barely scratching the surface of what Headway can do &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen some great sites using the theme and I&#8217;m determined to learn more about using Headway.</p>
<p><strong>Today I saw this video from <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway</a><a title="Headway Web Page" href="http://tinyurl.com/l3urwm" target="_blank"></a> giving a preview of the new Headway 1.5.</strong><br />
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The biggest improvement is the <strong>visual editor</strong> which allows you to easily edit the elements of your site all on the one page.  This looks like it will save a lot of time and effort.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been very impressed with the <strong>Headway forums and support</strong>.  Whilst I haven&#8217;t had to post on the forums yet (I&#8217;m sure I will soon!!), I can see that the designers of Headway are very active on the forums and keen to help their users.</p>
<p><strong>Version 1.5 </strong>is due out in a few days.  <strong>It&#8217;s free to upgrade for existing <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway</a> users</strong>.  For new users it comes with two license options depending on how many sites you&#8217;ll use it on.</p>
<p>Once I&#8217;ve got used to the new version, I&#8217;ll post another review.</p>
<p><strong>For now, if you have any questions about the <a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway</a><a title="Headway Web Page" href="http://tinyurl.com/l3urwm" target="_blank"></a> Theme, post them below.  Let me know what you think of the video.</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Ward</dc:creator>
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A week ago I bought the <a title="Get Headway!" href="http://tinyurl.com/l3urwm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway</a> premium theme for WordPress.  I&#8217;m using it on this blog and have been very happy with the options that Headway provides.  Over time I&#8217;ll review more of the features that Headway has and I&#8217;ll add some tutorials.  In this Headway Review I&#8217;ll provide an overview of how Headway works, and explain why I&#8217;m using it.</p>
<h2>My Blogging History</h2>
<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging for a little over a year now and have a couple of active blogs.  On two of those blogs I&#8217;ve been using the Cutline theme.</p>
<p>When I started blogging it was a steep learning curve and I wanted to use a theme that looked good, but wasn&#8217;t too complicated.  I settled on Cutline because it was free and looked good.  When I set up this blog I wanted something a bit different, so I used DeepBlue1.1.</p>
<p>I got to the point where I wanted more design options, and I began to look at what other bloggers were using to get ideas of what looked nice.  I soon decided that the good themes weren&#8217;t free, and buying a premium theme like Headway was the way to go.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve never used Thesis, and my WordPress experience has been based on the two themes I&#8217;ve mentioned above.</p>
<h2><span id="more-63"></span>My Introduction to Headway</h2>
<p>I can&#8217;t remember where I first found out about <a title="Get Headway!" href="http://tinyurl.com/l3urwm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway</a>, but I spent a while looking at the site and watching the videos.  The thing that attracted me to Headway is that you don&#8217;t need to have programming knowledge to be able to use it.  I know very little about html and css and want a theme that is easy to use, and won&#8217;t look like everyone else&#8217;s site who use the same theme.</p>
<h2>Setting It Up</h2>
<p>Headway is simple to install.  I&#8217;ve installed other themes before, and I found Headway to be no different.  I downloaded the file, uploaded it to my WordPress folder using FileZilla, and selected it under the WordPress Themes menu.</p>
<p>The first thing I noticed when I activated it and viewed the site is how basic it looked.  It looks as appealing as the default WordPress theme &#8211;  not very attractive!</p>
<p>Thankfully, this is easily fixed.  The things I did to improve the look and feel of the site were:</p>
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<li>Install a header image.  This is simple to select from the Headway Design / Header page.</li>
<li>Change the fonts.  From the Headway Design / Typography (Fonts) page I changed the fonts to Helvetica.  Headline allows you to select different fonts for a whole range of things &#8211; header, titles, body text, sidebars etc.  For now I&#8217;ve kept it simple, but will probably get more adventurous as time goes on.</li>
<li>Changed the colour scheme.  I selected the Galvanized Grey colour scheme.  I&#8217;m happy with the look of this for now, but Headway gives you the option to change colours on the pages, headers, post text etc.</li>
<li>Set up keywords, page description etc in the Headway Configuration / SEO tab.  This was easy to do.</li>
<li>Set up my feed details in the Headway Configuration / General section.</li>
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<p>Once I completed these steps, I went to the Layout Editor to set up my pages.</p>
<h2>Using Headway&#8217;s Layout Editor</h2>
<p><a title="Get Headway" href="http://tinyurl.com/l3urwm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway</a> has a leaf system of arranging pages.  Think of a blank desktop, then start adding things to it.  This is essentially how Headway works.  You have a blank page, you can then add a sidebar, content and a whole range of other things.  You can then move them around the page, and re-size them.</p>
<p>This is one of the big attractions of Headway for me.  I don&#8217;t know a lot about programming (I&#8217;m a business coach and financial planner!) so to have the ability to easily change the look of my pages is very attractive.</p>
<p>Headway makes it very simple to add a &#8216;Featured Post&#8217; leaf, a &#8216;Recent Post&#8217; leaf, Image Rotator, Text and Twitter leafs.  These can be arranged in any order on your page and each &#8216;leaf&#8217; has some options so you can change the way it looks or the content it displays.  I&#8217;ll talk more about these in a future Headway review.</p>
<p>The separate &#8216;Widgets&#8217; section makes it simple to add widgets to your sidebar.  A lot of the standard WordPress widgets are there &#8211; Archives, Categories etc &#8211; but there&#8217;s a few others.  I like the &#8216;Social Widget&#8217; which enables your readers to follow you through the various social networks.  This one only took a couple of minutes to set up, but is so effective.</p>
<p>I feel that I&#8217;ve only touched the surface of what Headway can do.  I&#8217;ve managed to set up a separate home page for this blog that has a mixture of text, blog posts and the sidebar.  Next up I&#8217;ll get to work on the sidebar, adding a newsletter sign-up box as well as some other links.</p>
<h2>What Could Headway Improve?</h2>
<p>Being a new theme, there are bound to be some teething problems.  The web site has a lot of information in the videos that show off the main features of Headway, but it doesn&#8217;t provide much else.  There is a users guide, but this is only available to people who have purchased the theme.  There&#8217;s also a forum where users can ask questions and share ideas.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to see Headway put up a FAQ section on their <a title="Headway Site" href="http://tinyurl.com/l3urwm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">site</a> where they can answer a lot of the questions people may ask.  They also need to explain the pricing a bit better.  I only wanted to buy the Personal option ($87) which enables me to use Headway on two websites.  The Developer option ($164) enables you to use it on multiple websites that your company owns or has developed.  The website doesn&#8217;t say this, but there is an option to upgrade from the Personal option to the Developer option.  This was important to me as I only wanted to test it out on one blog first.  Once I&#8217;m happy with it I&#8217;ll upgrade to the Developer option and use it on all my blogs.</p>
<p>The other thing is that the documentation can be brief in some areas.  As I&#8217;ve mentioned, I have very little programming knowledge, but I do have a good amount of WordPress experience.  I&#8217;ve found the documentation explains some things at a basic level, but sometimes assumes that the reader has a certain level of knowledge.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the forums are an excellent source of information, and I can see that the Headway team are active in the forums answering questions and suggesting solutions to problems.</p>
<h2>Should You Buy Headway?</h2>
<p>It depends!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re new to blogging and have very little WordPress experience, you may find Headway a bit of a steep learning curve.  My advice to those people is to consider using a free theme for a few months whilst you learn how to blog and work out what you want your site to look like.  Then you can spend the money and buy Headway once you have a bit more knowledge.  Of course, if you&#8217;re new but have someone who can help you, buy it now!</p>
<p>For the rest of you who have some blogging experience, know your way around WordPress and are looking to improve the look and functionality of your site, Headway is a great option.  I can only compare it to the free themes I&#8217;ve been using, but I&#8217;ve found it&#8217;s certainly worth the money.</p>
<p>First impressions are very important and the <a title="Get Headway" href="http://tinyurl.com/l3urwm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway Theme</a> has helped me improve the look of my blog so that it looks inviting to my visitors.</p>
<p>Over the coming weeks I&#8217;ll add some screenshots and video of Headway.</p>
<h2>Where Can You Buy The Headway Theme?</h2>
<p>You purchase from the <a title="Buy Headway" href="http://tinyurl.com/l3urwm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://bloggerbusinessplan.com/recommends/headway">Headway site </a>- click the link below.</p>
<p><strong>Headway Personal &#8211; $87</strong></p>
<p><strong>Headway Developer &#8211; $164</strong></p>
<p>If you use Headway or have any questions about it, leave a comment below.</p>
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