No worries James, we, and more importantly, many of our existing customers, are happy to help

For this, just drop any of these placeholder pictures where you want it, then go to the design pane and use the 'picture' dropdown to either link it in (if it's already online) or add it to the project (if the logo is on your computer).

With just a bit a practice you'll be a star soon, many travelled the road before you already. And if you need anything, just ask!

Hi James,

Sorry if I came off wrong in the comments above. As you can imagine we get the same questions asked over and over again in the forums. All we ask is our new forum posters take a few moments to review the content provided above as it very quickly answers the basic questions about the software.

The issue we often see is people don't have time or don't want to read or watch anything and just want us to spoon feed them help for every basic thing they try to do. Those articles posted above took a long time to put together and will help you figure out the software basics very quickly.

As always we enjoy helping others learn the software and are more than happy to help you along the way for those not so intuitive things that RSD can do for you.

Please remember that 99% of us here in the forums are users just like you donating our time to help people out. We are not employees of coffeecup.

I do hope you find as much enjoyment of the software as I do!

Cheers!

This thread really does bring up the issue for the need for a cohesive help manual. I am just now trying to learn RSD. I find myself getting very frustrated going to the CC website and trying to look through all the help articles to find the answer to my questions. So, I go back to RSD and just try to figure it out. I'm getting things done, but it is sure hit and miss.

Come on CC, you have great software. Now make a great user manual. Or, put the issue to rest and say "Yes, we're going to do it" or "No, we are not going to do it".

Thanks,
Galen

Galen, give us an example of what you feel you need instructions for? Don't be generic and say "well everything"

Do you want just cut basic information that explains each and every feature (Class, ID, Change Tab, Apply To, State, Width, Max-Width, Min-width) or do you want something explained that is focused on a particular task (Flexbox, Navigation, etc.)? If it is task specific, we do have many articles that cover a wide variety of things already so if we are missing one, let us know what you think needs to be expanded upon.

To us, it seems a waste of time to explain what a Class or ID is as these are common terms that you can find the definition for within many basic HTML/CSS for beginners books or resources on the web. We also know from painful experience that no matter how much documentation we create, there will always be a segment of users that still will not read any of it. So if anyone has specific (be extremely detailed in what you ask for) articles or how-to's that are lacking, outline them here and we will see what we can do. Again, be very detailed so that we can learn what exactly we should be improving up.

Thanks! :-)

Scott,

Thanks for your reply. It is not so much the information or lack of that I am speaking about. It is the difficulty in finding it on your website.

Here is a specific example: In a VSD site I have a picture that spans the width of the home page and other pages on the website. That picture is 850px x 204px, and of course is static in size.

Want to replicate the site in RSD and I see in the Elements section the drop down for pictures. Hmm.... 4x3, 3x2, 1x2, 2x1, 1x1. Which one to chose??? Better head over to the CC site for help.

Go to the knowledge base for RSD. Go to the RSD Picture Element Article. Helpful information, but nothing about the drop down options for picture sizes. Ok, I'll look for a different article. I read RSD - Adding Elements. Nope, no mention there of the drop down options and how to use them. There is a small section "How the Picture Element Works" and a link in the final sentence "Want to leanr more about this cool element and how to use it? Check out this helpful tutorial." So, I click on that link which takes me back to the RSD Picture Element Article.

So now I choose RSD Resource Overview. Well, again helpful information, but no mention of that picture drop down option.

Back to the knowledge base and I see the RSD Help Manual (now I'm excited). Click on that and it takes me to the "Index". Browse down that and I see "Add Various Content Elements to a Project". All that does is take me back to the RSD - Adding Elements article that I already read.

Scott, I am retired now, but still do volunteer work for a senior organization doing computer hardware and software troubleshooting and repair. That was my lively hood for many years. Websites are a hobby for me and I enjoy the challenge developing them. VSD has been great software for me as I am "code limited". I am making the switch to RSD. Given that RSD takes a whole different approach to site development I know it while take me a while to get used to. I am certainly willing to spend the time and have already spent a great deal of time learning what I need to know.

Hopefully you can see from my perspective in the example above some of the frustration I have with the RSD help system.

Thanks,
Galen

You can use which ever one you like. You see those numbers are there for placeholder images only. So, if you are going to use an image in place of a placeholder (the grey box with the word image) then it does not matter which you choose. All those numbers are is a size (image ratio) for the placeholder image. Once you replace the placeholder with a real image, those numbers mean nothing. The reason behind this is we give placeholders in various sizes to help you visualize the layout before adding all the images.

Why get so frustrated looking for documentation on every little thing.

A good thing to do when your using any software and learning about it is to play with all the elements. My first time was with RLMP, when it was released i just started adding elements and seeing what they did. I would make changes to see what happens. I found out how to do almost everything i needed to by just fooling around with the software before I started building any websites.

I found out things much faster then coming and searching through the forums for answers. Of course there will always be little things here or there that are odd. That's when you come here to see if any of us have experienced the same thing.

Steve,

We just have different learning styles. I'm not agonizing over RSD, just trying to piece it together in a way that is meaningful to me.

Why question in reference to the picture was the very first thing I tried to do in RSD. So I did not know that my question fell into the "every little thing" category.

Anyway, I will of course keep working with RSD as that's pretty much the way I been doing it so far... trial and learning.

Galen

Did you see my reply before Steven's Galen? I explain what the numbers are used for.

I have been working with the RSD for awhile. I admit to agonizing over which placeholder image to choose because surely the different sizes have something to do in relation to the final pic used. I admit to frantically diligent repeatedly trying to find some documentation on the matter that made sense. I admit that I am just now learning that it really does not matter and has nothing to do with the final image. Good to know!! It really is amazing the things you learn here on the forum. I have to admit I am usually in complete agreement with all of the people asking about user manuals/directions/ .