When I open up RSD and click on New project, I get the CoffeeCup index page which is a tips and tricks page. While I appreciate the tips and tricks (very nice), I really want to do my own site from scratch.
I can delete the index page only if I first add a blank page.
That is not how I think it should work. If I want to see the tips and tricks page there should be another way to do it.
Why does it start up this way and make me go through extra steps just to get started? It's annoying.

I'm using RSD 1.5.

Select from theme then Blank. Tick the set as default if wanted.

Glad you like the tips, took some time to put that together

The new workflow gives you a number of options to get started. Starting from the theme browser you can select a recent file you worked on or any of the themes. You can also save your own projects as themes to (visually) choose between them from the browser. As Eric pointed out you also can set a default theme for loading any time you start the app (or create a new project from the file -> new menu). This would be replace the current default 'tips' theme. Finally you can also decide to not open the theme browser when the app starts and immediately load the default theme of your choice.

Hope this little overview helps

Oh, boy !!!