A Look at Adobe's Muse

This series of web pages about Adobe's New Web page designer, Muse, has of course been developed completely in Muse. The session has been about 2 hours of work - most of it guessing how Muse works [the documentation and tutorial overview are both slightly off the mark]. This demo is also emphasizes graphic display features.

 

Think of Muse as Pagemaker for the Web. Competitive products are Adobe's own Indesign, Microsoft's proprietary-kills-a-good-idea FrontPage, CoffeCup's page designer, Net Fusion and Xara's Web Designer among others.

 

But when Adobe adds CMS capabilities, as they say they intend to do,  then this program will also  take on Google's Blogger and the ubiquitious and popular WordPress. It also will cannibalize Adobe's own Dreamweaver and Contribute.

 

My first impression is this has the potential to be very good Web development software indeed - graphic designers will love it.

The Purpose of the Cheat Sheets

 

This side of the Muse site being created is intended to provide info/commentary on how things were done on the "original" or left side of the page.

 

We are still not sure how to show raw HTML in Muse  so we will be using images as an alternative resource for the time being. Like this overview of a Muse Master Page: