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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

Where are the files generated by Muse?


When you are finished with creating your wireframes and you're ready to share them with a client, you can publish them directly using Adobe Business Catalyst by clicking on the Publish link. To do this, you will need an Adobe ID, which you should have created when you first installed Muse. This is an easy way to get your web pages online.

The alternative to Business Catalyst is to publish your Muse site to your own host server, which you may have already set up. To get the files for your website, you need to export the entire site. Muse will generate the HTML, CSS, and folder of images required for the site to function.

  1. 1. Choose File | Export As HTML. The Export to HTML dialog box appears.

  2. 2. Select the location on your computer to which you want to export the site files, and then click on OK as shown in the following screenshot:

After completing this operation, Muse exports the files and saves them in the local folder you specified. Navigate to the folder...