Quality documentation for Muffin Builder? [WRAPS, SECTION]
Hi, I'm having difficulty trying to build pages with Muffin Builder. The Be Theme documenation (http://themes.muffingroup.com/betheme/documentation) gives very little information on how to use Muffin Builder.
The documentation says concerning Muffin Builder - "With his help web development is child's play." Am I missing something? I'm a reasonably intelligent 39-year old, and I haven't found anywhere that explains what the difference is between sections, wraps, dividers, items, or how/when to use them.
I've spent a full hour trying to get a centered, non-repeating 1920px wide image to appear below my menu, and I can't get this done!?! Background image of a "wrap"? Nope... Background image of an "item" inside that wrap? Nope... Why is this so hard?!? Please show me where the proper documentation is so I can learn how to use Muffin Builder. I've checked Youtube, nothing usefull from Muffin Group there (at least for Muffin Builder 3.0).
- Cam (disappointed user so far).
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there is unfortunately nothing about the new builder yet because we simply didn't found time to show new Muffin Builder tool. We'll try to explain what is the difference between the WRAPS, SECTIONS, DIVIDERS and ITEMS because this is what you do not understand probably.
So SECTION is the most important part of Muffin Builder. If you look at our main demo http://themes.muffingroup.com/betheme/, especially Why you'll love our theme? section you see the section. It is a part of page where you can set own background image, color, top & bottom margins, etc. All details about section item you can check on http://themes.muffingroup.com/betheme/documentation/#section
WRAP is a part of section. A lot of our customers were asking about the WRAPS because they want to have different items for example on left side and different on the right side. So basically, WRAP is a part of SECTION where you can put items. For example you want 3 different items on the right but only 2 items on the left side and that's what for WRAP items are.
ITEM is just item. This is what you can see on our demos. Some of people call them shortcodes. If you look at the same section we mentioned above, 100+ layouts, etc are items. All available items you can check on our main demo under Shortcodes section.
DIVIDER is just nothing else than going to the new line. It's kind of item that separate paragraphs.
Hope this explanation will help you a lot.
P.S. To be honest this is first time in our history that someone is telling us that don't understand what SECTIONS, WRAPS, ITEMS and DIVIDERS are. And yes, every day we get a lot of messages from our customers that playing with our Muffin Builder is child's play and it's much easier than any other builder.
In accordance to documentation, it would be great if we would find someone for whom such things are not clear so he can describe them and explain in the documentation better. We can not be best writers because for us everything is clear and easy. If we would find such person, we would like to talk about the cooperation.
Anyway, the demos we made with new builder are http://themes.muffingroup.com/be/profile/ and http://themes.muffingroup.com/be/farmer/
And they are answering quickly in this forum and the optimizations on the theme over the time are amazing (btw: I don´t know how many people they are).
I admit, that the documentation is not complete (by far), there is room for optimization and i also wonder from time to time, why things are not described or even listed in the documentation.
I accept that, because i have the impression that they really know, what they are doing and that they care about us customers. This, and their fast reply times, makes it easy to accept, that this may be due to limited ressources and a long back-log.
And please don´t overemphasize their cheeky comments - they´re only human
Conclusio: I really appreciate their work and their products.
BTW We are the team of 4 only.