I'm new and have several questions

Hi, Aaron -- Thanks so much for reaching out here and welcome to the community! To get you started, I thought I might pass along the following resources in case you'd like to take a look:

SECTION 508/ACCESSIBILITY:

• General Info on Storyline and Section 508 Accessibility
• 6 Best Practices for Designing Accessible E-Learning
• Creating Keyboard Navigation/Shortcuts for Users to Navigate
• Yellow Box Appears When Pressing the Tab Key
• How the Enter Key Behaves in Data-Entry Fields
• Accessibility and Storyline

GENERAL STORYLINE 2/E-LEARNING RESOURCES:

• Getting Started with Articulate Storyline 2
• Storyline 2 - Full User Guide
• Storyline 2 Downloads
• Beginner's Guide To E-Learning
• What You Need to Know to Create Amazing E-Learning
• Lots of FREE e-Books!
• E-Learning ABCs
• 5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development

Hope that helps, and perhaps others will have additional insights to share, as well! :)

Thanks, Christie.

This was emailed to me also by Andrea:

Thanks for your message!
Articulate Storyline’s Flash-based output is Section 508 compliant. See this article for details:
http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline-2/storyline-is-508-compliant

When you mention theming, is this what you are after: https://community.articulate.com/articles/creating-the-custom-color-theme
https://community.articulate.com/articles/working-with-theme-fonts-in-articulate-storyline-2

Yes, you can import your own characters into your courses. Here's a handy discussion thread on the topic: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/import-own-characters

From a captioning perspective, these articles will help:
https://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/how-to-create-closed-captioning-in-storyline
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/storyline-example-generating-closed-captions

Here's the info on importing quiz questions: https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-2/articles/importing-questions-into-articulate-storyline-2

Here's a handy chart regarding Storyline 2 features and how they behave on different devices. I always suggest you test out your course on various devices to see what the learner experience will be like: https://www.articulate.com/support/storyline-2/comparing-flash-html5-and-articulate-mobile-player-output-for-articulate-storyline-2

Finally, your branching question:
https://community.articulate.com/series/4/articles/choosing-feedback-and-branching-options-in-articulate-storyline-2
https://community.articulate.com/download/storyline-2-branched-scenario-template
https://community.articulate.com/series/41/articles/how-i-built-this-branched-e-learning-scenario

You will also want to check out E-Learning Heroes - https://community.articulate.com/ -that's our Community page and it's chock full of helpful info like the links I've provided, above.

Hi Aaron, here are a few more resources you might find useful: 

Info on styling your course: 

You can find tons of free downloads to get you started in our downloads hub. Check out Trina's series of 10 minute template transformations to see one approach to updating and freshening templates.

Working with characters: 

Here's a tutorial on adding characters in Storyline 2. 

Captioning: 

This article shares three ways to add captions in Storyline 2. 

Quiz question import: 

Here's info on importing quiz questions along with a template.

Branching scenarios: 

Try our roundup of how-tos, downloads, and examples right here. 

Is there a feature or info on creating something very close or same as this accordion feature?

Click on that first box and info opens up and everything else moves down:

Hi, Aaron -- Perhaps the accordion templates below might work for your needs?

• Accordion Template
• Storyline 2: Customizable Accordion Freebie

?Have you seen this flipped over more top/down?

Hi, Aaron -- Unfortunately, I am not aware of another example in the accordion format to suggest, but there are many creative members here in the community, so hopefully others will have additional options to share for what you need! 

I did find this card animation thing which could provide me with a work-around:

http://articulate-heroes-authoring.s3.amazonaws.com/Downloads/Storyline2/Cards%20Animation/story.html

Def worth a look for the new folks like me....

Very cool example, Aaron! Many thanks for stopping back in to pass that along, and hopefully it will help out others, as well!