Hi Scott,
I'm with a couple of the others on your forum probably approaching my vintage. We have to rummage around in literature, tinker endlessly desperately seeking that penny drop moment when all is revealed. It's probably the curse of an education time when we were conditioned to find out why it works rather than just accept that it does.

Being with the black hand gang rather than having any creative ability I can grasp the responsive concept but struggle with the generational buzz words, acronyms and tools in RSD, particularly in regards to manipulating or changing, backgrounds, images, transparencies and scrolling overlays. Admittedly I have only fiddled with 'The Coast' theme to date but have also picked up RLM a couple of times previously and retreated battered to VSD and the terminology that I know and understand.
I don't want to hold back the class but documentation aimed at the lowest common denominator and a 'Glossary of Terms' would be a lifesaver.
I'm sure that what you produce will be excellent as usual.

Best regards
Andy Tattam

I strongly prefer documentation that offers a step by step and examples in addition to but not in lieu of, a straight-forward application reference where each menu element is enumerated and its function is summarized.

File: New, File New From, Open..., Open Recent, Export, and so forth - then the tool bar pages, preview, etc. then over to the Layout, Elements, Design, Settings, and Inspector,

The step by step and examples show you how to use the software, the enumeration of each resource/menu item/element serves as a long term extremely useful, timesaving reference work.

To state this from a different angle - yeah I can 'figure out' a lot of this stuff but guess what? Life is too short to have to 'figure out' every software application that I have on my computer, let alone the new versions that keep coming out.

big +1 on this...FWIW...I learn a lot by both step by step instruction and step by step video.

MJ

I vote for both, mainly written documentation and then videos where it's easier to show something than it is to write about a certain thing.

I'd like a complete guide on the position section. What each setting does for different elements and under different configurations. I just can't wrap my brain around those settings.

There will be people who need step by step and I think there should eventually be a complete step by step guide for the RSD sections. By that I mean Elements and when and where good practices to use them. The same for the Design section. I think brand new people to web design would get a lot faster start with good documentation.

I've had a lot of help from a few people in the forum but they shouldn't have to always use their time as much as they do for things that could be in documentation. That's not fair to them even though I know they are willing to help all the time.

Per Granders request –
It would be good to have a visual of a CSS box model so users could better understand how to use margins, borders and padding.

We made one for Menu Builder: http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/ … -box-model

So a link to that in the RSD documentation would be perfect.

Just curious, is this the practical 'making something step by step' approach you would like to see for RSD? Versus documenting the various tools and functions.

http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/ … n-6-steps/

I like discovering what it can do.

I too like discovering but a lead on a golden nugget is always nice. I am still finding little nuggets with RSD that I didn't know was possible to do. Maybe a quick list of all the major functions would be perfect for me. In depth explanations, at least for me, are not needed.