Headway Theme for WordPress takes flexibility to a whole new level by offering drag and drop design. Simply put the Headway Visual Editor is a game changer as it gives even novice designers outstanding control over their WordPress site.
Below you will find a list of slick Headway customizations to get your creative juices flowing. If you aren’t familiar with Headway make sure to check out our Headway Theme Review and the Headway Quick Start Guide.
Inspiring Headway Customizations:
1.) Blog Coaching & Consulting Services – Remarkablogger
Remarkablogger users a remarkably striking combination of orange, black, and white to create a truly remarkable site dedicated to blog coaching and consulting.
2.) Social media for non-profits – by John Haydon
John Haydon’s web page uses an attractive gray and white theme that is very professional while stile remaining personal. What better combination for a site dedicated to everything relating to social media.
3.) Technology for Lawyers, By Lawyers | TechnoEsq
A legal blog dedicated to the exploration of technology’s legal implications, TechnoEsq.com has a very professional design replete with an intriguing banner that is simply top notch.
4.) jasonwietholter.com | God is in the Details.
Jason Wietholter’s blog about social media is done in a fairly high contrast near-black on white theme with a very creative banner that simulates the print produced from a typewriter.
5.) Blog | The Tech News Blog
As its name suggests, the tech news blog is all about technology. The site’s brilliant use of grays mingling with light red makes for a nearly-magazine quality appearance that is simply stunning.
6.) SuccessCREEations, Inc.
Chris Cree’s site is dedicated to teaching businesses how to establish and/or maximize their web presence through new media systems and social networking. If the site, Success Creations, is any indication, Chris certainly knows what he’s talking about – the site features amazingly detailed banners and menus, a readership counter, and is amazingly executed.
7.) Rock Star Blog Design
Rockstar Blog Design offers consumers a number of options ranging from a full-blown blog design to minor tweaking of their current artwork and design. Rockstar’s site certainly looks stunning, with its in-your-face rock style-on-white design that commands attention. Their portfolio demonstrates that they have the talent to create everything from somber pages for professionals to the most outrageous pages that would probably be perfect for the most eccentric artists.
8.) Marketing & Internet marketing | Jim’s Marketing Blog
Jim Connolly’s blog about marketing provides useful tips in a high-contrast black on white theme with a touch of orange thrown in for good measure.
9.) Blog ideas for bloggers who mean business | The Ideas Blog
The Ideas Blog has uses white and black very sparingly to create a theme that is not necessarily high-contrast, but still sharp and attention-getting. This is perfect given the main theme of the blog: ideas for bloggers who mean business.
10.) Southern Philippine Children’s Shelter
The Southern Philippine Children’s Shelter (SPCS) is a non-profit entity dedicated to helping impoverished children and their families. The site’s professional-grade artwork and gray/gray-blue on white themes are reserved, which serves to draw attention to a very serious subject.
11.) Blog | Bengt’s Notes
Bengt’s Notes primarily focuses on personal development and presenations, but occasionally touches on business, networking, and career-oritented subjects. The site’s jig-saw art theme is attractive, and the gray on white theme is very elegant.
12.) Clerical Advantage
Clerical advantage focuses on virtual assistance services, and has a look that has to be seen to be believed. The banner is a recreation of a message board, which trails off into the background while an off-white foreground takes over. The use of browns and blues illuminate the text in a striking manner.
13.) Danny Brown
Danny Brown’s blog is social-media/PR centric, and professionally executed. The use of blues, orange, and grays with white banners creates a handsome website that certainly grabs attention.
14.) Andres Ferraro
Andres Ferraro’s web site’s banner declares that it is dedicated to ‘marketing + science + bullshit + business.’ While the 3rd item in the list seems hard to find on the site, what is easy to find is an elegant high-contrast theme replete with the obligatory white on black, but augmented with deep and medium blues.
15.) bloggerbusinessplan.com
Planning for success is the surest way to achieve it, and that is the main idea behind Blogger Business Plan. The site’s professional looking design includes an artistic banner that explores the interplay of white and blue while the main web site uses dark blue and black on a white background framed with gray.
16.) Unlock the Power of Headway | Headway Hacks
Headway Hacks is a blog dedicated to knowing just about everything there is to know about hand-coding alterations to existing or new Headway WordPress themes. The site uses an attention-grabbing green outline for a high-contrast black on white theme.
17.) We’re all stuck on this rock together~ Earthbound Chronicles
A blue backdrop supporting a black on white theme with an orbital rendering of our beautiful planet serves as a chronicle of the life of Robyn.
18.) HeadwayThemes 101 | HeadwayTheme Guide
Headway Themes Guide is an essential resource for anyone using the Headway WordPress theme. The site has a handsome design that mixes black, gray, white, and blues together in a pleasant yet eye-catching manner.
19.) Blog | adventures of a blogjunkie
Blog Junkie is a self described log of David Wang’s ramblings and thoughts. The site uses clever variations of orange and white to draw attention to the text.
20.) Internet4Change
Internet4Change uses a handful of attention grabbing colors such as purple, orange, and green on a white background to great effect. The focus of the site is the promotion of global social change.
21.) WishListGeeks
WishListGeeks design, create, and build membership websites. Their own site is elegant and professional looking, showcasing what they can do.
22.) Blog | April Tara
April Tara’s chic site features a pink on black background with a white foreground offset by black text and pink headlines. The site focuses on social media, marketing, public relations, blog design, and working at home.
23.) Psychotherapist and Divorce Coach | Published by Renee Fagan, LCSW
Soothing blues on white serve as a perfect color combination for a site that highlight the offerings of psychotherapist, divorce coach, and life coach, Renee Fagan.
24.) Illuminated Mind
Living life on your own terms is the content-focus of Illuminated Mind. The site features a medium contrast design with excellent artwork and photography.
25.) Diploma Tree
Helping people understand their educational options, specifically those that are available online, is the main focus of Diploma Tree. The site features a news-paper like black and white feed mixed with large text in an easy-to-read font.
26.) Parent By Heart
Parent by Heart featues a colorful design that helps parents and caregivers keep their mind on the subject matter: caring for children.
27.) Cosmic Cow Pie – Connecting The Dots in Social Media
Cosmic Cow Pie features an out-of-this world design that focuses on helping people avoid the inevitable cow-pies on the road of life. The excellent artwork is exemplarily, and may just be the envy of other self-help websites
28.) The Inspired Solo
The eye-catching pink background offset of by various off-whites and beiges used by the Inspired Solo creates a striking website that focuses primarily on helping people become self-proprietors and stay that way.
29.) Sarah White, Attorney at Law
Sarah White is a professional lawyer with a slick web site that covers legal issues of many different kinds. The site uses a very professional theme that looks very similar to the New York Time’s own home page.
30.) Thomas Schönweitz
Thomas Schoenweitz uses a startling highly polarized deisgn with touches of color to highlight his photographic accomplishments and interests.
31.) 12for12k | changing the world through social media
The 12 for 12K challenge website is an excellently executed example of how social media awareness can drive fund raising for a good cause. In this case, the good cause is aiding the homeless.
32.) Disneyland Confidential
A site dedicated to the ultimate Disneyland iPhone app. Given the Disney/Apple-centric nature of the site, it is not surprising to see a number of calming blues offsetting whites and off-whites. The overall effect is peaceful, but active.
33.) The Ideas Blog
Anyone looking for information on how to make a successful startup blog will probably be intrigued by the subtle contrast theme offset by brilliant images on “Apollo’s” web site, but the heart of the site is its wealth of useful information on using the web for marketing purposes, management techniques, and marketing advice.
34.) Lean Startup Blog
As the official site for a wedding photography studio, it is not surprising to find that Bluedoor Photography features an elegant off-white on muted gray background. The effect is classy and reminiscent of classic photo albums, and serves to keep the focus on the subject matter at hand: weddings and wedding photography.
35.) Clark Griffiths Weddings
Tampa-based Clark Griffiths Photography has a long history of being one of the area’s most prominent photographers, specializing in weddings. Their website reflects this by using a professional low-contrast theme that does not detract from the amazing photos.
36.) The Landlord Law Blog
Landlord-Law Blog uses a primarily blue on green theme with gradiated orange hues to create a popping display that does not detract from its contents. Those contents focus on landlord & tenant solicitor relation specialist Tessa Shepperson.
37.) As A Dude Thinketh
As A Dude Thinketh uses a Sunday Funnies style black on white theme to guide its readers to a happier and more successful life. Business and speech coaching services are also available.
38.) ARCHITECT | W. BRANDT HAY
W. Brandt Hay’s website focuses primarily on breathtaking architectural designs, and thus the medium contrast background serves primarily as a border of white on gray rather. The result is that attention is paid to the stunning photography and renderings, and not on background design.
39.) Get More Clients | Take Action, Get Clients
Almost all businesses want to increase their client-base, but Take Action Get Clients actually shows its readers how to do that. The pink and green on white theme is striking in its simplicity, showing that one does not have to spend a lot of time or money on airbrushed art to create an attractive website that serves its purpose well.
40.) Real Personal Finance for a Life Without Limits! | PT Money
A black background bordering a white page with green and blue highlights makes ptMoney an unforgetibly suave looking site
41.) Estate Planning, Southern California Attorney | Legal Elephant by Jen Sawday
Jen Sawday’s site, dubbed the Legal Elephant, uses light gray and blue on white to keep a professional tone while discussing legal issues.
42.) Marketing For Lawyers, Office Management and Technology
Legal Practice Pro focuses marketing, managing and growing a profitable law firm. The site’s design is very slick and uses a number of grays on a soft white/yellow background to keep the mood light while discussing a very important issue.
43.) Legal Marketing Radio | Law Firm Marketing | Marketing For Lawyers
Legal Marketing Radio covers marketing tips for lawyers, with a heavy emphasis on social networking and SEO. The gray and blue on white with green accents creates a very global look that is both professional and active.
44.) NW Woodsball
Dedicated to woodsball in the NW, the self-described ‘best damned woodsball blog’ uses an attractive banner and a combination of orange and white on black to get its point across in more ways than one.
45.) Blog | The Solicitors Online Blog
A stunning collaboration of blue and white makes The Solicitors Online Blog an attractive style that packs as much visual punch as it does interesting UK-based legal content.
46.) Location Independent | Live and Work Anywhere You Choose
Using white and various blue tones, Location Independent is a great source for learning to live and work from anywhere, even if those two places are not in the same city, state, or even country.
47.) Ideas & tools for tiny businesses with tinier budgets | Big Bright Bulb
Big Bright Bulb uses an electrifying white on red design to serve a readership of small business owners on a shoestring budget.
48.) Social media strategies | Next Level Blogger
Dark, deep blue on white with gray mixed in makes Next Level Blogger one sharp website. The addition of several quality pictures is simply icing on the cake, which is to be expected of a site that focuses on blogging strategies and social media issues/opportunities.
49.) Technology and Social Media Guide|DynamicsBlogger
Dynamics Blogger uses a graduated white to brown/orange theme that is not-quite subtle/not-quite loud, but certainly unique. The site focuses on social media and technology.
50.) Paper Cut
Clean Paper Cut is a website for an advertising outfit our of Malaysia. The attractive orange/red on white design certainly garners attention without looking loud or cluttered.
51.) Blog | SOBCon09
The official page of the SOB Con also doubles as a blog for those that specialize in social media/search engine-related modeling and writing.; The site uses a blue and white theme with an elegant menu under a gorgeous picture-banner.
52.) The Life of an Internet Teenager | Corey Freeman dot Com
Corey Freeman’s site contains the observations of an Internet teenager. The site uses greens on white to great effect.
53.) A Tale of What Could Have Been | An Almost Biography
Almost Biography serves as an online community for writers, though the fact that the blog appears to be new leaves no real indication as to how large the community is or will be in the immediate future. The striking white on red/black will certainly draw people in.
54.) The Fox Traps for Teachers
The Fox Traps is a site dedicated to helping teachers (specifically P-12) hone their skills. The site uses a cartoony banner that is appropriate for schools, backed by a blue and white design that is calming. Just the thing for teachers who have spent all day in class with naughty students.
55.) Paragon Parents Association
The official web page of the Paragon Parents Association uses a combination of bright green and dark blues on a white background to support professional quality photographs of children taken at various events.
56.) GMSKids Sensory Motor Integration
With a pleasing variety of blues framing a white background, SMI (a GMS Institute Program) focuses the attention of readers on the professional-grade photographs on the site.
57.) Deals, freebies, reviews & money saving tips for savvy moms | MomStash
Some of the best deals on the web can be found at Mom’s Stash. The site features a cartoony/pirate theme and the use of purples and blues on an otherwise black on white website helps extend that look and feel.
58.) Small Business Sherpa
A gloriously colorful banner lets viewers know that they have arrived at small business Sherpa, a site dedicated to helping entrepreneurs on their magnificent journey to (hopefully) making it big. The site itself uses greens and whites to great effect, which is harder than it sounds.
59.) The Law Office of Ellen A. Victor
Ellen A. Victor is a special needs lawyer practicing in Long Island, and her site is simply an amazing specimen for those interested in seeing the power of . It integrates rotating images of stunning quality with a professional-grade banner and menu. The results look good enough to be used in photo-studio websites.
60.) Rutledge & Yaghmai
Rutledge & Yaghmai’s full service law firm uses a well designed layout that incorporates pictures with backgrounds and individual design elements to create a very attractive web page that is at once professional and attractive enough to serve as the main page for an art gallery or professional photography in terms of its quality.
61.) Run Strong, Finish Well
A brown/red/yellow design servesthe fitness-oriented Run Strong, Finish Well surprisingly well.
62.) Straight Talk About Your Writing Career
Getting paid to write online is the titular focus of Get Paid to Write Online, but the site covers a variety of related topics. The simple-yet-elegant gray on white design is augmented by plenty of blues.
Comments Welcome:
- Drop a comment below if you think a site should be on here and it isn’t.
- Have a favorite site? Let us know why!
These aren’t ranked in any particular order, the numbers are just there to make it easier to reference. :)
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Nick Reese is a full time internet marketer living in Austin Texas. When Nick isn't managing web properties he enjoys biking, shooting video, and drinking tea. You should follow Nick on twitter here and check out his side project Becoming Bold.
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Holy moly! I guess this will give me the kick in the butt I need to get back on the blogging bus. Thank you for the mention! You missed the best though…
http://tmgnow.com
Take a look at it. Lots of work, Headway theme.
Bummer, didn’t make the list : (
Good catalogue of sites, will have to look at how they built their sites now…argh!
Thanks,
Owen
Hey there Nick,
Wow, great collection of Headway-styled blogs. It’s nice to see some that I haven’t been aware of, and to see the different approaches that are taken (both with and without custom coding).
Thanks for including both my social media blog, and my 12for12k site – I really appreciate that. Headway definitely it incredibly easy for me to go for the looks I wanted for each site, without having the tech skills that I may otherwise have needed.
If you’re interested, I also did my wife’s blog over at Just Kickin’ It:
http://justkickinit.ca/
Thanks again for the collection, and bookmarked for future reference!
Danny.
Nice list Nick. No major development on these themes yet, but that’s probably because the product is still pretty new. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when a couple of high-end designers get hold of Headway and tweak it accordingly.
I totally agree. I can’t wait to see some super slick customizations, the flexibility is there but it just needs time. We plan on updating this list as more great work starts popping up.
Great roundup of sites there:)
Here is another one that we finished just recently http://macsupportcasts.com
regards
Kb
Nick,
Nice list, I had no idea that there were so many.
Though, you seem to have included the “Ideas Blog” in the list twice (9 & 33).
Lol You are definitely right. Updated this and the Thesis Thread. Too many sites in one day. :)
I still see the ideas blog on here twice. I’ve had a few pints thought….
cheers
Hi Nick, many thanks for featuring my Landlord Law Blog, and Solicitors Online blog. However you have the wrong screen shot for Landlord Law Blog – can you change it please? http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk
Note I now have a new blog out designed with Headway – http://www.landlordlodger.co.uk. Headway is a great theme!
Tessa
Looks like my Excel spreadsheet. Had a few hiccups ;) Fixed.
Hi Nick, a lot more than on Coreys page already. Interesting. To put another view, for all the IT guys, in it and have a look at a little bit more Headway tweaking, here’s the blog I changed to Headway last weekend:
http://blog.rainer.eschen.name
It helps to promotes my Java/JSF/ICEfaces book. I had some trouble to get widgets into the footer and keep maintenance a bit easier. This is still one of my critics to Headway, else it is pretty easy to use.
Thanks for including me in this great list of Headway sites. I especially appreciate the fact that you’ve taken the time to include a screenshot of all of them. It definitely allows us to see that creating unique sites is an option with Headway.
Hey Nick, thanks for including blogjunkie.net with this awesome list :)
Hi Nick,
Thanks for featuring my blog! I’m glad you caught me after I made some sidebar tweaks.
That’s my favorite thing about Headway…no long days working on it or sweating how to make it work. I can tweak 30 minutes here and 30 minutes there, and by the end of the week a lot gets done.
I’m working on a sister site, hope it makes the cut for your next list * crossed fingers *
I love this list… I just went live using Headway and I love it, really! I used to have my blog with wordpress.com but having Headway has been a great choice!
Hope to be in the list for the next edition!
Regards.
Jorge Mafud
Mexico.
Have seen headway actually which was for non technical guys like me.. however, price bothered me and comparison with thesis seo is what made me rethink!
Yet to buy headway.. customization of headway looks okish compared to the other post you wrote on thesis customized websites.
Hey! Thanks for including http://parentbyheart.com in your list – making changes and modifications all the time – I’d love anyone’s thoughts on how they’ve used Headway to make a site that isn’t “blog-like” :-)
Thanks for sharing. I’m wondering what Clark Griffiths is using for scrolling his portfolio there. Does anybody know…?
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