Just in case anyone is wondering, I’ve designed this website using the Headway WordPress theme, which you can find here.
I have no coding ability, and built everything using Headway’s very simple-to-use Visual Editor. If you can drag-and-drop, you can use Headway. If you prefer to code, you can use Headway. It’s very easy, and very effective, and if someone with as little design ability as me can make it work, it has to be good.
It costs a little bit (I paid under £60 for it): but it’s so much simpler than trying to find a ready-done theme that matches your ideas, or struggling to write code you don’t understand.
Can you tell how much I like it?
The next thing I need to do is to add a background image, but I’m having trouble with that right now. I’ll do it next week, when I get back home.
Oh, look: a Gravatar! (I hope.)
It’s a bit steep just for a theme but if it works for you it works for you. VERY cool Logo by the way.
I paid £30 for Artisteer which is a point and click theme designer, and can produce WordPress or Blogger themes. (I created the Bob Shaw theme with it.) Not without faults and foibles but it is quick and fairly stress free.
JP, welcome!
I think this is Artisteer:
http://artisteer.com
It does look very good, but I wonder if it’s as foolproof as Headway (because in design terms, I am that fool!). I might have a go with it as it does have a free trial download. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks, too, for the nice words about my logo–it’s an image I found at iStockPhotos. It’s meant to be ironic, but I bet there will be some which will use it as evidence of my old-fashioned approach to publishing!
Coffee, sorry ‘t’ missing in the link:
http://www.artisteer.com/
There is a demo on the bottom of the home page which shows you the program working. It’s much like Office 2007, having the same ‘ribbon’ interface.
Incidentally, in Firefox the sub menu (What Literary Agents do, etc) items are bunched together. You might want to check out the Headway Forums to see if it’s a known problem.
Funny–I’m using Firefox too, but see no problem with that submenu: can you tell me more? I’m happy to look for a solution but can’t see what the problem is at the moment!
I’m off to look at Artisteer now. Thanks for the link.
It might be because my version of Firefox is V2 (I refuse to upgrade).
I did a temporary page with a screen shot. You should be able to ‘save as’ to get a closer look at the picture.
http://www.shadowdevil.com/jp/?page_id=187
Welcome to the new digs!