Comments on: Skinning Headway; The Future of Theme Design

By: enad

enad — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:48:33 +0000

those sites mentioned arent amateurish. i wish could make one like those.

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:31:57 +0000

Quick Question. I plan to buy the developer’s license, but I am wondering if the client gets all the tools for customizing their skin as I do. I get the part that the client will have no support from Headway, but will they be able to play with all the nifty tools as well, or can you export their newly developed skin to their server as a theme for WP?

By: Mark Heinrichs

Mark Heinrichs — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:56:12 +0000

I used to use premium themes until I came across Headway and I never looked back. You can really get creative in designing your skins and layouts.

By: Neil Matthews

Neil Matthews — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:23:40 +0000

I wonder if you are missing the point of a skin, you buy Headway as a theme framework to build you own custom theme, but a skin sits on top of headway as a predesigned template, I have tried my hand at this selling the skin for $20-30 dollars on top of the price of headway.

I worked with a graphical designer to create graphically rich skins for people without the graphic skills

By: Doug C.

Doug C. — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:17:41 +0000

“…if you have already forked out $87 dollars for your basic Headway theme, you are not going to want to spend premium theme money on a skin.”

My feelings exactly. After paying almost ninety bucks then you find out you can’t change the look of your new HW site unless you pay even more? Quite the rip-off.

By: Grant Griffiths

Grant Griffiths — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:08:52 +0000

FYI – you no longer are required to pay an additional fee as a developer if you build a site for a client. However, the client will not receive Headway support unless they purchase their own Headway Personal License.

By: Rik Williams

Rik Williams — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:08:22 +0000

Great Post! I have just purchased Headway after iBuilder and Thesis. I have a coding background but not in PHP or CSS and found Thesis still had a steep curve compared to Headway. I am vey interested in learning more PHP and CSS by learning how to skin Headway. So please keep in touch as I will definately subscribe to your tutorial. Rik

By: Neil Matthews

Neil Matthews — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:41:39 +0000

Hi Austin,

If you check out this thread it may help, the documentation is under development for skins and importing styles, but there is some information in the support forum. http://headwaythemes.com/members/support/showthread.php?t=3237

With regards to predesined skins, I am currently developing a couple with a very talented designer Jonathan Woodward. At the bottom of this post is an email signup leave you details and I will contact you once they are available

By: Austin Lawrence

Austin Lawrence — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:45:38 +0000

Hello all. I’ve uploaded the Headway 1.6 theme to one of my sites and I’m wondering how to import a style to my site? What type of file is this?

You can tell that I have no coding and very little design background. That’s one of the reasons I purchased Headway in the first place. I love the idea of having skins that I can import to a site to give the framework for the a site that you are looking for.

Can anyone tell me if there are any predesigned styles or skins that are available now? What exactly is the difference between a style and a skin anyway.

Thanks for your patience with a noob.

Austin

By: Neil Matthews

Neil Matthews — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:47:07 +0000

Danny, can you help?

By: Brad Parler

Brad Parler — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:42:09 +0000

Where are the details of this? After posting this and a quick exchange with Clay via twitter I went ahead and purchased the $164 Developer Edition of the theme – but I’ve not heard of anything else.

By: Neil Matthews

Neil Matthews — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:50:24 +0000

Good idea, I never thought that $40s per client site was a good idea.

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:24:00 +0000

Headway have announced that developer licenses allow you to use the theme on as many sites as you want, whether they’re your own or client ones you develop on

By: Neil Matthews

Neil Matthews — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:12:28 +0000

Must speak to that Griffiths chap to see if I can snag a copy of the beta too

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:47:06 +0000

I have the developer license for Headway and I’ve just installed the beta of Headway 1.6. A lot of the questions on this post (and comments) are answered by this update – I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:38:30 +0000

Wow, I’m really glad that I found this post – as I totally missed the $40 surcharge for using on client sites!

I love the concept of Headway’s Visual Editor – and I’ve looked at framework themes, but none have come close to do what Headway can.
I’m not looking for a non-coder solution, I’m looking for a fast simple means of visual design.