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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

Taking care of site files with the Assets panel


The Assets panel show us the filenames of any image files we are using in our website, not just images on the current page. You can open the Assets panel by choosing Window | Assets. Right-click (or press Ctrl and click) on filenames in the Assets panel to see the context menu appear. If you've used Adobe InDesign, this panel is called the Links Panel.

The Assets panel context menu contains the following options:

  • Relink: This option lets you reconnect files that have been moved after they were placed on the page. When you click on this option, use the Relink window that appears, to navigate to the file, and select it to specify its new location to Muse.

  • Go To Asset: Clicking on this option will take you to the page where the image or asset is located.

  • Embed Link: Adds a link icon with the path to the asset's location on the local computer.

  • Edit Original: This is a great option if you have used a Photoshop PSD file or a Fireworks PNG file on...