Headway Theme 1.5 - What’s Old is New.

NetObjects. Remember them? They had a product called Fusion BITD (Back In The Day). I remember discovering it in ‘96 or ‘97 when I started working for the Arkansas Adult Learning Resource Center. It allowed pixel precision page layout filled with nasty code.

Wikipedia says:

“Strictly speaking, NetObjects Fusion is not an HTML editor but an HTML generator. NOF comes with a graphical user interface similar to desktop publishing applications like Pagemaker (now InDesign). The user has pixel-level control on a WYSIWYG page layout. User actions on pages get written into a proprietary database, which generates HTML code.

The software was targeted at users who have a traditional print design, authoring or journalistic background. The developers of NetObjects Fusion intended to give them a user interface and a workflow they are used to.”

Wikipedia

For some strange reason, the Headway Theme for Wordpress reminds me of NOF.

From the site:

Headway is perfect for the average blogger (or webmaster) and developers. All users of Headway can appreciate the ease of the drag and drop layout editor and the vast amount of options. Besides having superb design options, developers will be able to style everything with their own CSS and custom hooks.

More:

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.

Perhaps it’s the new page layout editor.

Or the way you can arrange and resize leafs.

It’s almost as if I now have drag-n-drop pixel precision on a 960 grid.

Comparing this to NOF should not be read as a bad thing. In fact, I think this approach will allow for quick development of sites. I hope. Especially if they develop an easy way to handle vertical navigation (hint hint). It’s being considered at least.

Navigation Leaf (Way to add vertical navigation to your site)

I look forward to digging deeper into Headway over the Christmas break and be able to create working versions of the home page and data page templates we use at work.

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