Hello

I am looking for a person to implement a navigation and mobile navigation for my site: www.skincarescience.com

As you can see it is ok but rookie. it is good enough. I would like the same function but the secondary categories should be drop downs and not static. My navigation need to be way more professsional.

A hamburger mobile menu would also be what I am looking for.

RSD is exceptional and looking to keep things intact so please be experienced in RSD.

Please email me at: martyg@skincarescience.com and give links to examples. Looking for a pro. Thank you.

- Marty

I know Wayan Jaya has made a very nice one, responsive with dropdowns and the 'hamburger' icon. He might find his way to this post.

Thanks

- Marty

I looked at the code. It seems you are using RSD 2 trial, but are using the not to be any longer supported Coffeegrinder framework. RSD is built around primarily using the Foundation 6 and Bootstrap 3.x (soon to be 4) Frameworks. Those latter frameworks are well documented on the web and come with such menus that you can use that are designed to be responsive with the mobile menu "hamburger." Using a different framework would require rebuilding the site, but that is the direction that RSD is going. As the frameworks get better or change, so will RSD. By using the new framework, and their built in menu and drop down menu components, you will be learn how to use them so you can make changes yourself in the future.

Coffeecup has a popup menu that they can help to convert to a new framework. I don't know what the scope of that help is - but the popup has a link to their support page. I would assume you would at least need to own a copy.

I have the V2 and was told it is not a trial that I own but yes it is the trial. I will convert over this week I guess for what it is worth. As for the Coffeegrinder Framework I do not know what you mean.

I am not sure what exactly you are saying. Why would I be using the Coffeegrinder Framework? The site was built with RSD and only RSD and the current version and now V2.

I guess I will have to look into this or what you are saying or maybe you can detail out for me. Thank you.

- Marty

It means that RSD V2 does not have the coffeegrinder grid system any more, instead they use Bootstrap and Foundation. Coffeegrinder was just a temporary thing, as it seems.

Having said that, you can still open any project made with an earlier version of RSD and continue working in coffeegrinder. You won't find any built-in components for coffeegrinder, but you can create your own and store them in the component library.

You may also just continue using V1.5, but that means you won't have access to creating components or any other advanced stuff.
The help to convert from coffeegrinder to one of the other two systems has not started yet. They are just checking if people are interested in such a service. And it would be a paid service, as far as I know.

You have been using Coffeegrinder framework all this time! The framework is like a blue-print, and a set of conventions, rules and methodologies. RSD uses the Cooffeegrinder framework (created by Coffeecup) for responsive CSS website creation. The framework is designed around the "grid system." For instance, when you make a website, RSD also put out a lot of CSS in special stylesheets - that is the framework that RSD uses. For example, its definition by default for a 12 column span system, is that a div is going to be 8.33% wide for a single span. Then, a 12 span column will be 100% div. So when you want a column to be 3 spans, RSD inserts a css class from the Coffeegrinder Framework, making that div 24.999% wide, and other classes. Its not simple to do - but its basically what happens.

Read this! http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/grid-systems-and-frameworks

Long story short, LESS THAN 6 years ago, the very first versions of different css framework were released by Twitter and Zurb (they were supposed to be used for internal projects). Those frameworks evolved to include javascript routines and some other complicated web development stuff. They now include things people considered standard for a website, like image sliders, accordions, drop down menus, responsive menus. They still do not have a good visual editor. Most people use prebuilt templates or HTML editors. But the frameworks do make HTML editing easier. Zurb, Twitter and Coffeecup were basically doing the same thing, but I believe Twitter just pushed Bootstrap into popularity and brought Foundation with it to a much lesser extent.

So now, RSD is including them. I don't know what CC's original plans were with their framework, but It would be hard to compete with Twitter (or whoever is officially in charge of Bootstrap now) and Zurb (Foundation) when their stuff is free. So now, Coffeecup can concentrate on RSD.

You can use either Framework, and literally go to their websites, and follow their instructions on how to build a drop down menu and build it in RSD. Its that simple. Now, there are some methodologies to use with RSD 2, like using list and link container when creating a menu, instead of the normal list element, and I think there is an error with a particular framework class (which I found a work around). But it can be done. But you would have to rebuild your website in a new framework to take advantage of that - but in the long run would be better. Suppose you want to add a table to your website - but make it a tabbed component for easy use on a mobile device - simple in Foundation or Bootstrap, not so simple in a normal HTML site, you would need to insert your own custom CSS and javascript.

Thank you both for the long winded messages. I appreciate it and the time it took. I know what BS and Foundation are and I am using the RSD V2 and my site is well should be using the BS and Foundation and not CoffeeGrinder. And I think that is what you are both telling me in different words.

That is what I am under the impression. Either way I am working on the menu and will fix it. So far for what it is and the time RSD is a great place to start.

- Marty

Some how you are using coffeegrinder framework, see attached screenshot. Maybe you started of with an older project?

I had started on a project using the older version of RSD and got as far as a roughed in landing page and then opened the project in RSD 2.0 Trial version and continued adding more content.

Do I have to start over as a fresh project in 2.0 to get rid of the coffeegrinder framework?