Comments on: Review of the Headway Theme for WordPress – Originally Posted on WPBlogger.com http://jasonwietholter.com/blog/review-of-the-headway-theme-for-wordpress-originally-posted-on-wpblogger-com/ Decramp Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jason Wietholter http://jasonwietholter.com/blog/review-of-the-headway-theme-for-wordpress-originally-posted-on-wpblogger-com/#comment-42 Jason Wietholter Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:00:32 +0000 http://jasonwietholter.com/?p=185#comment-42 @Mohib, Headway is a little bit more friendly for people not crazy about the ins and outs of CSS and PHP, but Thesis is awesome too. To answer your questions: A) Not currently. It may be possible in a future release, but right now the default underline method is the only way. B) That isn't possible natively, but you could do it using Hooks. It would require more programming, but it could be done. C) Yes it does. However, it does not have the text overlay capability that that site has. It just allows images to rotate and link to another page. D) I'm not 100% clear on what you are asking, but if you are asking about the "Serving Opportunities", "Our Ministries" and "Featured Music" sections, yes you can do that. E) You can emulate all but the two columned portion of it, which I am guessing is what you are after. I don't believe that it is too difficult to manipulate the layouts to do what you need, but I have to confess that I haven't done it. @Mohib, Headway is a little bit more friendly for people not crazy about the ins and outs of CSS and PHP, but Thesis is awesome too. To answer your questions: A) Not currently. It may be possible in a future release, but right now the default underline method is the only way. B) That isn’t possible natively, but you could do it using Hooks. It would require more programming, but it could be done. C) Yes it does. However, it does not have the text overlay capability that that site has. It just allows images to rotate and link to another page. D) I’m not 100% clear on what you are asking, but if you are asking about the “Serving Opportunities”, “Our Ministries” and “Featured Music” sections, yes you can do that. E) You can emulate all but the two columned portion of it, which I am guessing is what you are after.

I don’t believe that it is too difficult to manipulate the layouts to do what you need, but I have to confess that I haven’t done it.

]]> By: Mohib http://jasonwietholter.com/blog/review-of-the-headway-theme-for-wordpress-originally-posted-on-wpblogger-com/#comment-32 Mohib Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:44:22 +0000 http://jasonwietholter.com/?p=185#comment-32 Thank you for your informative review. My background is development, but not in web technologies so I'm unfamiliar with CSS and PHP and so am looking at Headway instead of Thesis however most of the headway sites I've seen have rather primitive navigators and have been wondering about its ability to define more elegant navigators. I'd be grateful if you could answer some of these questions for me: a) Can shaded roll-overs be defined and cascading menus, rather than the rather simple underline attribute (which is all I've seen in the navigators so far) be defined. I'm looking to make navigators like these: http://www.studiopress.com/demo/enterprise.html b) Can two navigator bars be defined -- like the two at the above link? c) Does it come with a rotating featured post leaf, like the one at the top of this page: http://www.studiopress.com/demo/corporate.html d) Is it possible to define multiple content areas like this site: http://www.studiopress.com/demo/church.html e) Can the thesis home page style be emulated (wide column with 2 or 3 featured posts, followed by 2 columns of older posts) like this: http://thesis.kristarella.com/ If these can't be done out of the box, with Headway 1.65 how difficult would it be to accomplish these tasks and how much coding would be needed (assuming they can be done)? Thanks in advance. Hopefully the answers will help others. Thank you for your informative review. My background is development, but not in web technologies so I’m unfamiliar with CSS and PHP and so am looking at Headway instead of Thesis however most of the headway sites I’ve seen have rather primitive navigators and have been wondering about its ability to define more elegant navigators. I’d be grateful if you could answer some of these questions for me:

a) Can shaded roll-overs be defined and cascading menus, rather than the rather simple underline attribute (which is all I’ve seen in the navigators so far) be defined. I’m looking to make navigators like these:
http://www.studiopress.com/demo/enterprise.html

b) Can two navigator bars be defined — like the two at the above link?

c) Does it come with a rotating featured post leaf, like the one at the top of this page:
http://www.studiopress.com/demo/corporate.html

d) Is it possible to define multiple content areas like this site:
http://www.studiopress.com/demo/church.html

e) Can the thesis home page style be emulated (wide column with 2 or 3 featured posts, followed by 2 columns of older posts) like this:
http://thesis.kristarella.com/

If these can’t be done out of the box, with Headway 1.65 how difficult would it be to accomplish these tasks and how much coding would be needed (assuming they can be done)?

Thanks in advance. Hopefully the answers will help others.

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