@ dawnpedersen
I am building my GD around 2013 as well, but I have run into one problem. When I put a widget in the Secondary Widget Area, there is a CSS conflict between the theme sidebar and GD sidebar I think: the widget ends up outside the browser window like on my test site here:
http://goldroo.net/listing/info/smart-cookie-psychologist/
As you can see, on a theme only page, the widget ends up on the right place:
http://goldroo.net/sample-page/
I spent hours trying to adjust the CSS and can get it right on either a GD page or a theme page, but never on both.
My finished site is getting along slowly here, using a child theme of 2013:
http://www.bookhinterland.com.au/