As I am sure many of you have noticed, we have switched TechnoEsq to a new WordPress theme, Headway. Headway is a theme for WordPress, but it is also much, much more. Headway picks up where Thesis left off, allowing users to create a blog exactly to their specifications using a graphical interface to resize posting, sidebar and any other areas you would like on your blog. Some other features include the ability to put ‘hooks’ (the yellow info boxes you see before and after each post now) easily into your blog as well as summaries for older posts (see below the current post) and built-in support for social media and such niceties as quick insertion of an image rotation box for display of multiple images. Lawyers looking to create their own blog for their practice would be remiss in not exploring the options Headway now gives them for an affordable legal blog.
However, the feature list of Headway is not its main selling point, but instead it is the ease of use in building and customizing your blog. As I said, we had completely re-built TechnoEsq’s website after installing WordPress in under 2 hours. The only thing which was exported from the old site was the post content and images. Under normal conditions, it would take a considerably more time in re-creating a website to keep the look of the prior one. As we mentioned, there are built-in options for custom sidebars and image rotation boxes which are called leaves (as in the leaf of a table). These leaves are boxes inserted into the layout of your blog just like leaves in a table and are customizable to include text, video or any other code you would like to insert.
For those technically inclined, resizing containers and leaves is as easy as clicking and dragging from within the layout editor. Colors can be chose for backgrounds, links, text and any other editable object using a color wheel.
Headway is truly an amazing product and anyone even considering a blog should seriously consider Headway. You can save a considerable amount of money creating a blog using WordPress and Headway instead of hiring a firm and you retain complete control over your site.