WOW a theme that's just [acked full up of components, and instructions on how to use them
No. It is a theme that has the code for components, but no instructions how to MAKE them into components. Once you make them into components, that website browser display (not theme - you can't find the component instructions in the theme itself, easily), perhaps you can use them as components. I don't know, as I'm not yet to the point of having components from the components I just purchased this theme to get.
The actual Materialize website has a lot of information on using the Materialize framework. I've been using it more than SD3, so far, to get my head around the MF (that's "Materialize Framework".... you'd think someone would think about the shorthand for something before they name it).
As to the orgainization of the tips and training, there have been two things here that pop out to me: 1. When I searched for "how to make components," without success, I was told here (Thanks, Ernie!) that it was found from WITHIN SD3's Help menu drop down.So much for a websearch using "site:coffeecup.com" as one of the terms for finding help. Yes. I can see how finding it from the help menu is logical, however...
...2. To find out how to make components, I have to go to a user's site (which I have not yet done. Timezones are wonderful things).
Good news: CoffeeCup is actually reading this thread, because I just got an email with a great link for learning SD3. Between that and the Materialize site, I think I'll be OK.
Bad news: Not CofffeCup, but MF: Their color pallette is horrendous, and you cannot easily customize colors. I will be looking at this, and moving some components out (once I sit down with Inger's link and SD3; on my other machine), and finally, I'll see about writing some code to allow you to easily cusomize colors with RGB values. Try to get a button that's not "Teal" and that you can apply, say, "wave effect" to with a similar non-teal color. I'll wait. You can do this using the built-in colors, which are reminiscent of Playskool or Fisher-Price toys, but try to make a color that's not included. I'm doing a High School site right now, and they want the site to use their school colors. What a concept! Hey, Google! How about a global color pallette rather than your long and tedious list of specific colors. You know, something where I can just give you some RGB values and call them "color1, color2, color 3?" Instead, I get preschool primary colors and some nice colors for the visually impaired. https://materializecss.com/color.html Those are the ONLY colors you can easily use in Materialize.
Anyway, it looks like MF might not be as bad as one might think. It's clunky and not user-friendly, but so far, it's no worse than bootstrap or foundation, that I can see.
Sorry for the rant. I need to sleep more, I think.