As one of the Co-Founders of Headway Themes, this conversation has been fun to watch. Thanks for all the insight and the different positions taken.

Grant

It gives me great joy to make a website accessible, affordable and easy for these folks – they really couldn’t have done it without me. Maybe other journeyman designers are are charging a premium price for out of the box Headway designs…but not all of us.

With the CPC site, there was a dedicated colour scheme that the client was after. They liked the idea of a warm, earthy type feel, which I think we (hopefully) got

Again, cheers for the feedback and I’ll look into some of your ideas.

Of course. There’s just a ton of sites out there. I have clients I’d love to show off, but am under NDA with them or they are internal company sites. I’ve got some stuff down the pipeline that are not under NDA and I think (or hope) that there will be a surprise to some of them based on the way I’ve coded them.

Personally I don’t mind spending $67 on a theme so I can put my code on top of it. Once they realize the power of Headway they are hooked!

Not a problem linking to your list. I felt it only fair since it was what I used to do the research. Thanks for the link back!

Keep a look out for http://surfcubes.net, my Web and Mobile development company that I’m planning to launch around Sept. 1st.

Keep in mind my list of sites using Headway is short, there are over 1,100 sites using Headway, and my list is updated everytime someone sends me a link or come across as site.

Personally, I think Headway Themes is THE best theme for WordPress. I think more people should venture out and try it.

Thanks for linking to my list, I will add your site to my list called, ” Sites of Interest”

Many Blessings, Owen

Re: Bonsai Interactive - The rounded corners either look to small for such large boxes, or they were done with an image. They also don’t match the rounded corners of the pictures (on the home page). I am using Safari 5 and Chrome nightly on a Mac. - The drop-down looks a little weird being all white. Maybe a 1px red border will help? Or maybe just a little more spacing between the “header” and the “content” so that there is no overlapping.

There’s a few other things I could pick apart if you wanted me to, but generally its a very good start. It was one I had selected as something I liked and would probably put it in the 27 that I have on Flickr.

Re: Canadian Pet Connection – - Personally don’t like the color choices, but maybe that’s what you had to work with. - You used two different types of Social Media Buttons, why didn’t you use the same? - Contact form (name, email, subject) fields seem to small. Are they set to a 10px? - Light brown text on Dark Brown background could be hard to read for people with color blindness issues, or just old eyes. - Privacy Policy & Ordering and Security links have weird URLs but appear to be in WP/Headway.

I’m more of a fan of Bonsai than Canadian Pet Connection. I hope you don’t feel like I ripped them apart too much. There’s just some minor things you could do differently that would enhance what you’ve got.