Hell, I like some competition. With another (seemingly) great Premium WordPress Theme on its Headway DIYthemes’ beloved Thesis is getting challenged. A recent discussion on ilovethesis.com made me think for a while about any possibilities regarding an exhausting WordPress Theme Shootout. At first sight Headway looks very nice!
Crazy Drag & Drop Features
headwaythemes.com states the following:
With Headway you can rearrange your layout with a simple drag and drop gesture (no, we are not kidding). You can make a newspaper layout, build a blog with a content-sidebar-sidebar layout, or anything you can imagine.
Wow, I’d like to have that inside my daily Thesis package – on the other hand I don’t care about clumsy AJAX-features that look great but suck while I’m developing something. I’ve seen drag & drop before when WordPress 2.8 arrived some months ago. I was like: “Are you kidding me?” but shortly after my first im- and expression of pure joy I became bored by that feature, because it was just slow and – I repeat – clumsy!
We’ll see how it fits into the workflow of those developers who are already using Headway…
This is freaking awesome!
Says John Haydon and he is absolutely right. But what does he mean? Headway in comparison to Thesis seems to be like PC Apple versus Apple or Iphone versus Palm Pre, etc. After paying some bucks you receive a great theme (framework) and to make your blog something special you have to customize it!
With Thesis it’s very easy to do so – with Headway it’s also very easy. Headway customization seems to be even easier. The average Joe should be able to beautify his blog within one hour or less. Both themes serve this feature…
Attention: Are you using Headway? Don’t be ashamed! I’d like to hear your opinion about your new theme in the comments area below this article!
My very premature bottom line
While writing this post I realize that it should go directly into my recycle bin and never get publicly published. Of course I won’t waste these lines and instead of another premature reaction I’ll publish it in a few minutes.
Just a few things more before I complete this verbiage:
Thesis rocks my world. You know why? Because DIYthemes has an incredible community. If I ever need help I’ll go to the forums and ask for it. Within 24 hours I’ll be happy again. It’s that easy.
I can’t see something comparable shipping with Headway. It seems so small. I even believe “it” seems avid. The success Chris Pearson and DIYthemes have seems to force people to outdo one another. That’s crap. Why not learn from each other and make WordPress usage even better, regardless of the theme used!?
Competition is great if a product lacks usability, design, community and such – but if there is a product ready-to-use-without-conflicts: Why bother re-inventing the wheel? *
With Thesis 2.0 coming I honestly cannot see ANY reason why I should switch themes. And – as an added benefit – I cannot see ANY reason for you to not use Thesis. Let other make headway, we stand our grounds with Thesis after Thesis.
Yo, Thesis users out there: I ROCK, YOU ROCK, WE ROCK! Yeah.
PS: I almost shed a tear on that ;-)
PPS: The * means: Of course it’s about the money…
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Nice Blog dude.
I am new to Thesis but its so easy to use, its incredible.
Never heard of Headway but I will definitey check it out and be my own judge.
Cheers for your wise thoughts…