Although I think the new Responsive Site Designer is quite cool, it does not replace VSD. The reason folks bought VSD is to build website without any coding. RSD requires users to understand coding. I really wish they could create a combined version of VSD and RSD. It would be sad for VSD to die as most of the folks who build sites in VSD have no clue how to code.

Hey Bill,

I think you got confused. Responsive Site Designer has not been released yet. When this application is released it will be much like VSD in the sense you don't have to know code to create a website.

You may be thinking of the current Responsive Layout Maker. And yes this software requires the user to have basic knowledge of HTML and CSS3.

Hope this helps

Yep! What Steve said!! I'll be the first ( and not the last ) to admit that I don't like to code. I am eagerly awaiting the release of RSD which we think is just what you want. VSD wrapped up in a responsive package. No coding required, however, with a little coding it may be even better. Just have to wait a little longer to find out all the juicy details.

Hi,

has any kind of roadmap been set out for RSD?

Best regards,
Marc

Hi Marc,

Yep there is! But when we ask we get:

Oh, thanks for the clarity. If they are creating a new VSD that builds responsive websites then I'm quite excited. I will be one of the first to buy the software. I hope they use what they have learned in VSD 7 so we don't have to start over on any of the features.

Do we think this is a 2014 release???

My understanding is that it is going to be a 'Responsive Site Designer' where the user will not have to do 'much' coding. It will be 'like' VSD, but it won't be VSD! You may be able to produce a site without coding, that will be responsive. However, there will be things you may have to 'tweek' the code on to get it just the way you want. Basically we do this with VSD too. I have also heard that layouts created with the RLM program will be able to be imported into RSD. That right there tells me you'd have to adjust some things.

Bottom line is that CoffeeCup is not letting much information out about this right now. Bits and bytes is all we're getting! We won't really know what it's going to be, until it arrives. Soon! (Right Scott? Soon? )

LOL yea exactly right. From my understanding RSD will kinda look like the current RLMP so you may want to download the trial version and take it for a test drive. If my guesses are right the functionality will be quite similar except you wont have to do any manual coding! It will be a game changer in responsive design that allows people with little to no knowledge of coding to create websites!

Personally I love the Responsive Layout Maker!

Tables would be nice.

I am making a photo inventory for our church, each page documenting a room, to be used from a DVD (not online). VSD freezes up on saving which I blame on the very large quantity of images. I though if I could break up the pages into 3 or 4 "sites", I could afterwards link them together and I may get around this "saving" problem. I soon realized that every "site" would have an IMG_1.jpg, IMG_2.jpg, etc., which prevents link (in the same folder anyway).
SUGGESTION: If the generated image files were prefixed with the letters derived from the site name or individual page names 2 or more site could be linked together easily.