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[...]... other designers have used Muse to create their websites, check out Muse Showcase at http://www .adobe. com/products /muse/ showcase.html In this chapter, you will learn: • • • • • What Muse is How to get around the workspace How to save your site How to select tools How to work with panels What is this Muse you speak of? Muse is a brand new offering from the software design company, Adobe The idea behind it... designers as well as graphic designers to master Adobe Muse quickly It will provide step-by-step instructions that guide you through building a website with Adobe Muse Learning Adobe Muse will teach you how to plan, design, and publish websites using Adobe Muse It starts by covering the tools and interface of the program and moves on to the concepts you'll need to understand for laying out your web pages... download the software to your computer There are two ways to buy Muse: either by paying monthly or yearly as part of Adobe' s Creative Suite, or you can just try it out as a thirty-day trial Either way, you can download the software from http://www .adobe. com/products /muse. html and install it on your system Muse is available for Mac and Windows The Muse workspace A good worker knows their tools, so we're going... copyright and is licensed for the sole use by on 7th October 2012 Welcome to Muse Welcome friends, to Adobe Muse! As we work our way through this book, we will learn how to use Adobe' s latest web design software to create eye-catching websites All without writing any code Examples of some of the interesting ways in which people have used Muse include portfolio-style websites for photographers, illustrators,... fully-functioning website What this book covers Chapter 1, Welcome to Muse, discusses how Muse enables us to create websites without writing code We will familiarize ourselves with the Muse workspace, its tools, panels, and the document window We look at shortcuts for each of the tools which are well worth spending some time learning as you go Chapter 2, The Muse Workflow, addresses some of the challenges faced by... your layout is what makes Muse special You can focus on the look and feel, while Muse creates the code behind the scenes This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by on 7th October 2012 Welcome to Muse The following are some of Muse' s features: • Plan, design, and publish: Starting your website with a plan is always a good idea and that's the first step in the Muse workflow • Easy layout... into our Muse web pages Chapter 10, Muse, Meet the Adobe Creative Suite, examines how we can create a layered image in Photoshop and then place it as a Photoshop button in Muse This allows us to create buttons with multiple states which is a useful way to give feedback to our web visitors We will also see how easy it is to take an image created in another program and copy-and-paste it into Muse [2]... on 7th October 2012 Preface Adobe Muse is an exciting new tool from the world's foremost software design company, which allows users to create beautiful and fully-functioning websites without writing any code It provides graphic designers the power to use their print design skills over the Web This book will help web designers as well as graphic designers to master Adobe Muse quickly It will provide... focus on creating a compelling and beautifully designed site, Muse automatically generates all the HTML, CSS, and scripting required to make it function You can publish your site from within Muse if you host it with Adobe, or you can export your site and host it with any service provider of your choice So let's get started Where to find Muse In order to follow along and work with the program, the first... Get) web design tool, Muse allows us to build entire sites without worrying about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or jQuery—all of which have the ability to leave a designer in a cold sweat If you are a graphic designer and have used Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop, you will find that you will have a certain level of familiarity with Muse The interface is similar to others from the Adobe stable and the . master Adobe Muse quickly. It will provide step-by-step instructions that guide you through building a website with Adobe Muse. Learning Adobe Muse will. of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: Welcome to Muse 7 What is this Muse you speak of? 7 Where to nd Muse 8 The Muse workspace 8 The Welcome screen 9 To open