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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

Adding a logo


Most websites contain a logo in the same place at the top of each page. Usually the logo is also a link to the home page. In the following steps we'll do just that on our site.

  1. 1. In Plan view, double-click on the blue A-Master page.

  2. 2. Right-click anywhere on the page and choose Show Header And Footer from the context sensitive menu. You'll see additional guidelines appear horizontally to represent the areas at the top and bottom of the page which are the header and footer sections.

  3. 3. Click on the words Windsurf Wild to select it, then press Delete on the keyboard to remove the text.

  4. 4. Choose File | Place and browse to select the logo.png image. Click once to place the image.

  5. 5. Using the control bar, set the X position at 44 and Y position at 0.

Adding a link to a logo

We want our logo to be a link back to the home page. When someone clicks on the logo, they will always be brought to the home page. This provides consistency on every page.

With the logo still selected, click on...