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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

Editing text


So now that we have some text in place on the Gear page, let's go back and edit it. The following steps show us how to do it:


  1. 1. While in the Design view, select the Text tool.

  2. 2. Select the text that you want to change.

  3. 3. We can edit the text using the Control Panel at the top of the screen (once our Text tool is selected) or in the Text panel, which we open by choosing Window | Text, as shown in the following screenshot, if it's not already visible:

The following are the options available in both panels:

  • Font: You can pick a font from a list of web-safe fonts (we'll talk about web-safe fonts in a bit more detail later), web fonts or from a list of system fonts. Muse exports system fonts that are not web-safe, as an image. Web-safe fonts and web fonts are listed with a small globe icon beside them. If you choose a font which needs to be exported, a small image icon appears beside the font on the list in the control or text panel and on the work area beside your text.

    If you want...