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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

Upgrading and launching


The final steps involve "upgrading" your site and publishing it. When you get to this stage, you will need to pay for hosting fees. You will also need to register a domain name for your site and this is done through a third party.

Register a domain name

You will need to contact a domain registrar in order to buy the domain name that you want to use for your website. There are many sites offering this service online and you should be able to buy a .com domain for less than $10 online. Buying a domain name is very straightforward and is generally completed very quickly. We will return to the domain registrar after we complete a few more steps.

Upgrade to a published site

The following steps will tell you how to upgrade your site and publish it:

  1. 1. In Muse, with your previously published temporary site open, click on the Manage link. The Manage link is only available once you've published your temporary site.

  2. 2. After clicking on the Manage link, the Business Catalyst admin...