1st Edition

Creative Web Design with Adobe Muse

By David Asch Copyright 2014
208 Pages 600 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages 600 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

You’ve found your Muse; now learn how to create with it Creative Web Design with Adobe Muse is a step-by-step guide to creating fully-featured websites using Adobe Muse. Adobe Muse can be a complicated program, and web design itself is no easy task, although your clients might think so. This book takes you from the initial design and layout stage right up to helping you publish your... Read more
Chapter 1: Introducing Muse The main user interface Tools Panels Chapter 2: Design and layout. Creating a new site in Muse Master pages: an explanation of the concept of using templates for the site Site structure: how to add pages and sub-pages to the site Chapter 3: Designing the Master page template Styling the background Working with the page guides, headers and footers Adding fixed images and text (site consistency) Creating navigation with the built-in menu system Chapter 4: Working with individual pages Adding text content Creating a text box pasting from the clipboard The character panel Creating character and paragraph styles Adding images Placing images from a file pasting from the clipboard The fill panel Creating image styles Creating manual hyperlinks (text and graphic) Creating site-wide link styles Adding Photoshop buttons Using Muse’s widget library Composition widgets Menu widgets Panel widgets Slideshow widgets Chapter 5: Advanced techniques Chapter 6: Publishing the site. This chapter will focus on uploading the completed site to the web Preparatory work: adding metadata (page descriptions, keywords, etc.) Exporting the site as HTML (for manual publishing to a pre-existing domain) Publishing to a Business Catalyst hosted site from within Muse

Biography

David Asch is a freelance author, photographer and designer. He has written three titles on Photoshop Elements along with numerous articles on Photoshop and Elements for magazines and websites. He also has a strong grounding in web development and ICT.