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Learning Adobe Muse

By : Jennifer Farley
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Learning Adobe Muse

By: Jennifer Farley

Overview of this book

Adobe Muse is an exciting new tool from the world's foremost design software 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 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. You'll learn how to format text using reusable styles, add images, create a clean navigation system, and add interactive elements such as panels and slideshows to your pages and all this without writing a single line of code!By the end of the book you will have created a smartlydesigned, fully-functioning website.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Adobe Muse
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating text frames


In Chapter 3, Planning your Site, we had our first introduction to text boxes when we created a wireframe mock up and added a number of rectangles, including one text frame, to hold our dummy text.

In Chapter 4, Powerful Pages, we added the title of our website "Windsurf Wild" to our master pages and in Chapter 5, The Joy of Rectangles, we added some text content to our Learning page. We're going to continue adding text content to our windsurfing site now.

In Muse, if it's not already open, open your site by choosing File | Open Site from the menu or click on the name of your windsurfing site on the Muse Welcome page.

There is more than one way to add text to our pages. We can do any of the following:

  • Draw a text frame and then type directly into the frame

  • Draw a text frame and then copy the text from another source, for example, a word document or from an Internet site, and paste it into the text frame

  • Place a .txt (basic text file) by choosing File | Place in the menu

We...