Course Overview
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Intermediate What is Adobe Muse?
Adobe Muse is easy to use Web Designing application that offers a practical advantage with readymade code tools. The aim of the software is to facilitate Graphic Designers to create professional and Original websites least bothered about the coding parts.
For years, hardcore graphic and web designers are waiting for software that can allow them to access the coding portions of a website without putting their hands into HTML or CSS parts. With the introduction of Muse, designing and creating a user-friendly website has become a simple process. Adobe Muse fulfils the identical purpose for web design as InDesign does for print design. Once you finish with the designing, you can take your site live by using Adobe hosting or any equal software.
Another advantage for choosing Adobe Muse is its refined workflow process that mitigates the complexity and multi-layered workflow of web designing. Artists usually come across numerous stages while designing a website. From creating a site concept, adding and organizing pages, wire framing the design, creating the original web pages, testing the pages and publishing are many layers of job that needs multiple applications to work. Muse fits nicely within the intricate part, providing a simple and single solution that can accommodate every set of work in it. Hence, saving more time, efforts and providing a platform with clarity. The software provides a user-friendly interface that looks similar to most of the Adobe’s counterparts and helps in convenient integration between applications.
About Adobe Muse Training Course
Section 1 – Getting Started
By the time wannabe, Web designers come to learn Adobe Muse, in most of the conditions they are solidly aware of the tools and techniques of Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. Having a basic idea about any of the Adobe products can help you to a great extent as they share various common tools within the interface.
In this lecture, we will take you through the very fundamental topics of the Muse and get you prepared to begin working on the software quickly. To have a good understanding of any software, one should essentially master the interface and the workflow to work on it. In this initial chapter, we concentrate on the foundation topics.
We will start to explore the User Interface of the software beginning from the Welcome screen and teach you how to make use of the window. We speak in detail about the Navigation modes and share knowledge about the panels and menus. Once you are familiarized with the workspace of Muse. We shall brief about the workflow we will carry on in the further lectures.
Section 2 – Web Page Making
As you are already aware of the Fundamentals of Muse, now it is time to dive into the making of the web page. In this part of the course, you will learn about some of the hard and fast rules of web designing. We will explore the header and footer portions of the web page and discuss various styles, sizes, and features that are involved in each of them. You will learn where you should place the logo and the menu. We also discuss the concepts like why it is essential to maintain consistency in the design, style, and sizes of Header and Footer on every page of your website.
Another part of this section of the tutorial deals with Muse Master Page. In Adobe Muse, Master Page is essentially the first page you will start working on. You will use this page as the base and connect other pages to it simultaneously to build the entire website. Here, you will learn about the importance and functionalities of a Master page in Muse. You will also gain knowledge about the structure of Master page and why it accommodates all the site elements and how it helps for a consistent navigation experience.
Section 3 – Easy Way of Making the Web
Building a website using Adobe Muse is an entirely a new and easy experience. By now, you are aware of the foundation concepts of the Muse software. During this lecture, we will start to explore the methods to build a professional website.
In this tutorial, we introduce you to the easy methods employed in creating websites. You will learn how to plan the concept and prepare yourself for kick starting your site and come to know some easy and time-saving methods to fasten the workflow. We will also explore the various methods of creating a Muse site.
You will also come across a detailed in length topic about various properties of a Master Page. We will start the discussion from where we left it in our previous chapter. The lecture includes detailed explanations of the elements in a Master page and analyses how these elements help to attain a cohesive look for the entire website. We also help you with some snippets about multiple master pages and getting consistent with some portions of the website without changing them manually.
Section 4 – Understanding the Menus
In this section of the course, you will learn detailed information about the tools and functionalities of Adobe Muse and how they will come handy to the user in building a professional website. We will start discussing the working modes of the software and get in detail about the Tools in the Design Mode which includes Selection tool, Crop tool, Zoom tool, Text tool, Hand tool and Rectangle tool.
The section is not done yet. You will learn about the various widgets that you can attach to your website through Muse. We will introduce to the widget library from which you can choose and reuse a variety of widgets on a web page or multiple pages and take you through the process about how to insert the widgets on the pages.
Another quick lecture bears information about the Fitting command that will help you fit an image exactly to a frame or fill a frame with an image. In both cases, you will learn to maintain proportionality while resizing your images.
The next lecture in the section is the Graphic styles. You will quickly learn about how to save and apply the existing graphic styles to format the graphics and frames. The last subject of this section talks about the proportions. It discusses in depth about changing the proportions of the graphic frames and images.
Section 5 – Making a Website Layout
In this final lecture of the course, you will get to learn some core topics like the Text that enhances the aesthetic look of your website. You will learn how to work with the type tool and dive deep into the topics as placing and editing the type, Changing the type attributes, how to work with various fonts in type, creating and editing character styles, Pasting text frames between multiple Muse websites and formatting the text frames.
In the second lecture of the section, we shall take the discussion one step ahead and talk about creating a website with multiple pages in Muse and editing the Master page properties.
Benefits of Adobe Muse Training course
- Adobe Muse Training provides the understanding of fundamentals of Muse software. It will be your first step towards emerging as a professional web designer.
- You will learn to create basic web pages and Master pages through Muse. You can also connect the child pages to the Master page and create a structure of a complete website.
- With the significant understanding you achieved about the tools, you can readily work on some of the key elements of the web page as the Header and Footer feature, Type, Graphic Styles etc.
- You can enhance the look and feel of your website by employing the preloaded widgets into your website. You may also try to use the widgets that help you to load the HTML tags without coding.
What are the prerequisites of this course?
- Working knowledge of computer is necessary to start the course.
- If you have previous experience working on Adobe package software as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop that experience will help you learn the Muse software quickly. However, it is not crucial to know Photoshop.
- A basic understanding of websites and user interface will help you focus on your requirement.
Who can learn this course?
- Graphic designers willing to update to Web designing
- Web designing and developing enthusiast
- Bloggers and Entrepreneurs who want to design their own website
- Students from Fine Arts background
- Web developers and word press developers
- Professionals or Enthusiasts from any art background
- Students from any education background willing to make future in Web designing
Frequently asked Questions
- If I can design websites in Photoshop, why should I learn Adobe Muse?
Photoshop is a graphic designing application created to meet multiple requirements. But, it doesn’t necessary be an end to end solution provider when it comes to web designing. Though Photoshop allows you to create websites, leveraged with the high-end graphic designing tools, it would take relatively more time and plenty of planning to manage a full-length website.
On the other hand, Adobe Muse is software exclusively developed to meet the Industry standard web designing. The workflow in the Muse is planned to mitigate the extra time the process will take in Photoshop or any other graphic designing platforms. Muse can help you manage from the website planning and preparation stages, giving and advantages in creating site concept, planning your sites, wire framing, prototyping, designing and previewing your site. You can also add readymade widgets to your sites through Muse. The best part is that you can use the predefined coding templates enabling the designers to use the HTML codes without writing them.
- Is there a need to learn HTML 5 or JQuery if I want to be a web developer?
Adobe Muse is intended to help the web designers access a good share of HTML codes and JQuery or other widgets without working on the code part. The software is surely powerful to add coded parts to your site, test it and take your site live on the web. But, it doesn’t necessarily fulfill every purpose of a full-time web developer. A developer’s day to day job is associated with working for multiple clients and numerous requirements which may not be always available in Adobe Muse.
For Web developers, Adobe Muse will help to understand the design concepts and access the readily available widgets and codes that will fasten your workflow.
Course Testimonials
Martina
Web designing is always an overwhelming thought for me until I registered for this course. But, it wasn’t tough actually. With this course, I knew the fundamentals of Adobe Muse and it’s clear in my mind that web designing is a domain I can master. Thanks to the Tutor for the amount of information he provided in the lectures.
Gabriel
For some time, I was struck in Photoshop to design the web pages. I was investing a great deal of time and could not handle my projects in time. Learning Adobe Muse helped me to plan, execute and use my schedule more effectively. I sure recommend this course for Pros.
