This all works reasonably well, at least for a first beta, however there are a few problems. (There’s no option to open it in other browsers yet, though.)Īnd once you’ve finished, Muse can publish the site directly to Adobe’s own Business Catalyst hosting service, or export it to HTML, ready for uploading to your own web host. If you’d like to see how this works at any point then clicking the Preview option will let you try out the site so far in the program’s internal browser.
And if you do need more then the ability to insert custom HTML means you can enhance your pages with Google Maps, YouTube videos, or any other embeddable resource that suits your needs. There are tabbed panels and presentation layouts, a variety of slideshow layouts, navigation bars and so on not a wide selection when compared to some of the competition, but again, enough to provide a taster. If you’re aiming for something a little more ambitious, though, the Objects menu is a good place to start, as it allows you to insert various interesting widgets into your page. And clicking File > Place allows you to insert and arrange whatever images you’d like to include. Add a text panel and start typing to create your text, for instance (formatting is strictly basics-only but there’s enough to get by, at least for the moment). Customise your default Master Page with a background, a logo, a menu perhaps, and these changes will immediately be reflected throughout the site.Īfter that, customising each individual page with its core content is straightforward. Once you’ve created the general outline of the site then you may quickly give it a common look and feel with Adobe’s Master Pages. Visualising the design in this way may reveal some problems, of course, but they’re easily resolved drag and drop a section of the map from one area to another and Muse will reorganise everything for you. Every page you add can be further customised in the same way, and within a few minutes you’re able to generate a complex site map. You start with your home page, then add others below it, or at the same level, just by clicking buttons. The Muse “Plan” stage, for example, works something like a simple org chart generator. But this doesn’t actually matter as much as you might think, as smart site design tools get your project underway with surprising speed. But as we discovered when we took a closer look at Muse, there’s more than enough functionality to get a feel for how the program is going to work.Īnd so when we first clicked File > New Site, for instance, we were a little disappointed to see that Muse doesn’t yet offer any site templates. The AIR-based application is a little short on features right now, no surprise for a first release. Adobe has revealed the first public beta of a new WYSIWYG web design tool, code-named Muse, which allows you to build entire sites without worrying about HTML, scripting or other low-level complexities.
0 kommentar(er)
