No introduction needed, let’s just get straight into the reasons I have come back to Headway.
7 Reasons I Switched Back To Headway Themes
1. WooThemes was horrible.
Yep – while I loved the look and layout of the Mainstream theme from WooThemes, it was all downhill from there. It was buggy from the get go causing me to have to constantly fiddle with it. I’m in this game to write content and help people – not spend my time trying to get my theme to work.
I admit – one of the reasons I left Headway in the first place was because I felt like I spent too much time “designing” my site. What I learned during my time away was that:
- Headway was new
- I was new to premium themes
- Laying out a premium theme takes a bit of work
Good news:
- Headway is no longer new and has made the “setup” even easier than it was before
- I have been through a few premium themes now
- I now enjoy installing and designing blogs
2. The Founders of Headway
Clay and Grant Griffiths are two of the hardest working coders (Clay), designers and marketers (Grant) in the business. They diligently strive to make Headway a better, more powerful and richer experience for their customers.
Their hard work and passion for their product makes you want to be around them.
Simply put – I missed these guys.
3. The Headway Support Community
As I mentioned above, as a blogger, my deal is all about creating conversations with you through content creation and community building. I don’t have time for jacking around with a theme – no matter who puts it out.
When I was considering coming back to Headway, the support community around Headway was readily available for my questions and concerns. Grant sent me instructions on how to play with me design behind the scenes so your ability to access this blog was not interrupted. He connected me directly with support concerning my questions about upgrading from the old version I had installed to the newest.
Besides the amazing support you get directly from Headway, there are stand alone sites out there that have videos and tutorials about Headway (this is why I call it the Headway support “community”).
Here are a couple:
My friend John Haydon has a site full of Headway training videos – http://Headwayvideos.com
Joel Williams (BlogTechGuy) has one as well – http://themevids.com/category/headway/
4. Video Tutorials
I learn by watching. I can read it and still not get it as well as I do if I can watch a video.
A quick count of the video tutorials in the support section of the Headway Themes website adds up to over 25 (this is just the links to videos, many of the links lead to multiple videos).
No other theme I ever tried came close to this amount of available of training.
Note: Yes, Headway has written documentation (not all of us learn by seeing) and a live support forum.
5. SEO
Headway out of the box is worlds better than most themes when it comes to being search engine optimized.
Again, I’m a blogger – I’ll let my theme do the heavy SEO lifting.
6. Drag and Drop
I’m no coder. I do not know but a bit (a very small bit) of CSS.
But I can drag and drop stuff around to the places I want it to be – and this is how I “design” this site with Headway.
7. Bang For Your Buck
- Cool, hard working and engaged Founders
- Seasoned theme development
- TONS of support
- Great SEO
- Easy to use
- Ongoing development
All for a great price.
That, my friends, is bang for your buck. All in all – these are the reasons I came back to Headway for MY sake.
In the end though – these are also the reason I came back for YOUR sake. As the Creating Conversations with frank community, I want the best user experience for you when you visit.
I wanted you to have a stable environment that was not going down are acting funky at the drop of the hat.
I also wanted you to have a blog owner that was happy and not stressed out because his theme was acting crazy.
I’m glad to be back – I hope the experience is a great one for you!
P.S. Stay tuned tomorrow for a post on why I switched to the LiveFyre commenting system.
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Glad to hear that you are switching back to headway themes, I've never been use headway but I heard a lot of information about it. I'll try it very soon, headway themes are great. Thanks for allowing me to know this!
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