I purchased the beta upgrade. I planned on evaluating it. But how do I do that?

1.) My existing sites are from v1.5, if coffeegrinder is no longer used, how will that affect moving my sites to v2 to work on them? Do I now have to move to, and learn foundation to work on them in version 2? If I have to move to them, what kind of problems should I anticipate when converting from coffeegrinder?

2.) I was excited by the concept of components and symbols. There is a tab for them, but unlike the elements tab, there is no mention of clicking or dragging them to the default theme pages included. They are listed, how do I actually use them? I see components listed in resources, I added the "store" button from there to the components and it is listed, now how do I apply them to the website design to explore editing it? Will I be able to convert sections of my websites i built in v1.5 into symbols and components, and use them in V2?

3.) The other new features of multiple backgrounds and new menu options look interesting in the slide presentation, where do I learn the basics of how to do them?

4.) I understand that it is a beta, but I still need some basic tutorials or instruction on how to use the new features and changes to evaluate the software by using it. I paid for it, I need some basic information on how to use it. I understand things change on a beta, but you need to give me some basic documentation to use it, I'm not psychic. Don't charge me and then not give me something to work with, like how to do the basics on things that were not in the old version. Where can I locate that information?

Thank you,

Bob

You can still use your existing projects created with Coffeegrinder. Nothing changes there. If you want to create a NEW website, you would want to choose from Foundation or Bootstrap. If you want to stick with Coffeegrinder, just use one of your existing sites, remove all content and save it as a blank theme.



Watch this:
http://www.coffeecup.com/files/predefined/add-components.gif


All the documentation for RSD 1.5 still applies to RSD 2.0. That will cover all the basics. For some of the new features, we are still working on the documentation as this is a BETA release. More detailed info will be posted when it is official.

Hi Bob,

You can open your existing rsd projects in V2 and work with them as before, but since the coffeegrinder system is deprecated, there are no components for them. You will be able to create your own though, or by exchanging components with other users. As for menus, I have made some that you can pick from the second url in my signature. They can all be opened in V2, and you can save them as components to your own system.

For the time being I have not been able to create any other components than just menus.

OK, so Scott beat me at it again...

Thank you. For others that were using 1.5, I finally figured how to add a component to the work area.Unlike the tab for elements, which allows you to drag or click on the element name and has an information tag pop up, the components and symbol tabs adjacent do not have a consistent user interface, you have to click on the + symbol to the left of the component name, not on the component name itself. Notice in the video Scott attached you have to click directly on the + symbol area Hope this helps someone.

I like the download button with icon component.. You can edit and format the text portion, borders, background colors, move the icon, change the glyph. It saves me using an online site button generator like I used in v1.5. Is it possible to add other images to the glyph library associated with it?

Bob

I don't think its glyph. I appears to be an automatically self generated .svg. from what I just researched - if you are talking about Foundation. Those menu particularities are a part of the framework. I would reconsider changing the dropdown symbol because it is so universally associated with being a dropdown. If you really need something customized like that, then you might need some scripting or create a custom menu or have your own script for dropdown buttons. Even looking for this topic it was difficult to find any results perhaps because few people mess with it. There might be a way to do it with SASS and mixins, but I am not familiar with those things, and I don't think RSD can read SASS and mixins without manually adding other code.
http://foundation.zurb.com/forum/posts/45490-foundation-6--changing-select-tag-drop-down-arrow-color

You can change aspects of the dropdown arrow itself if you get into compiling SASS
http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/dropdown-menu.html

Whatever the way - it looks complicated if you want to change the framework.

Adding other images to the glyph library might be tricky, as Bill says, but you can delete the glyph from the button and use your own image/graphic instead

This is the glyph question I asked about. You say the css is somehow generating the library of objects? I wonder if there is a way to download another object library. But, I guess as Inger says I could simply replace the icon with any graphic object I could generate and insert it in the container using RSD.