Numerous pages to post to RSD- best...

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Well I'm ready to join the RSD world. Downloaded the trial then bought it. Learned a lot from all the great tutorials that are posted. Getting ready to start re-creating the web sites I've done over the years with VSD. (which was the coolest program to build websites, in my humble opinion)
My big question is posting some content. One site has about 100 pages of past sermons from our pastor. They are in a sub-domain now, with every page opening in a new page. Posting these to the RSD site is my question. I'm thinking to use .pdf files? And will I still need to store them in a sub-domain? Or will RSD handle 100+ .pdf files?
The site is http://www.stbonifacecincinnati.com/ and the sermon page is
http://www.stbonifacecincinnati.com/Fr-Joes-Corner.html At the bottom of this page are links to the sermons.

Thanks for any advice!
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Why not make a page of archive links to the PDF files rather than worrying about whether or not RSD will handle it? Make one page (or multiple pages if there are too many links for one) and organize them even by date or type or whatever you want. make the current pages into PDF's and that's it. Then your main work to do is just creating a ton of links rather than pages. Keep it simple is my motto when it comes to things like this. :)
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With 10 years of sermons to put on the site, I see why you have separate pages. On your current site, you have the text of each sermon on the pages. Since you will be using PDFs instead of posting them on the pages, your job will be a bit easier. I agree with Jo. Keep it simple. If you can get away with a list of links, that would be my choice, and linking to PDF files is pretty simple.

Regarding the PDFs, Putting all those files inside RSD will just bloat the .rsd file. It will also add more work when you want to add new sermons. Consider adding the PDFs to the site in their own folder after you export.
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Thanks for the assistance. So the best thought is post them in a separate RSD file, upload to the sub-domain, and link from the main site?
Converting the sermons to .pdf's will be the task.

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