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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

What to test for?


Testing should be completed during each phase of a site's development. Two mistakes new designers often make are waiting until just prior to launch before testing, or not testing at all.

If you've been following along through the book, you'll have done some testing after each page is created by clicking on the Preview link. By testing as we go along, we reduce the number of bugs and errors that could appear if left until just before the launch. The message is, keep testing and previewing throughout the entire Muse project.

So what do we need to test for?

Test your website on multiple browsers and platforms

Even though your website looks good and works well in Muse, doesn't mean it will look as good or function as well on other browsers and/or platforms. Adobe has created a product that should create web pages that look good on all browsers and platforms but it is part of your job to check and test that they do.

Which browsers and platforms to test?

In Chapter 2, The Muse Workflow...