Online Class: Adobe Muse 101

Introducing Adobe Muse CC: Simplifying Web Design for All

Dive into the captivating realm of web design with Adobe Muse CC – a fresh and dynamic addition to Adobe's suite of design tools. Cast aside the shackles of complex coding and dive straight into an intuitive, user-friendly platform that empowers creators at every level. Whether you're a novice dipping your toes into web design waters or a seasoned professional seeking a streamlined approach, Adobe Muse CC is your go-to tool. Let's embark on a transformative journey, transforming your abstract ideas into captivating web realities!

Course Highlights & Offerings:

1. Breaking Down the Basics: We start at ground zero, ensuring a solid foundation. Grasp the principles of website planning, ensuring a structured and impactful online presence.

2. WYSIWYG Mastery: Celebrate the beauty of the "What You See Is What You Get" editor. Bask in the luxury of visual design, dragging and dropping your way to magnificent websites.

3. Dynamic Layout Design: Navigate through the art of designing coherent, responsive web layouts, ensuring smooth user experiences across all devices.

4. Enrich with Elements: Learn to enhance your pages with a plethora of elements. From the fundamental colors, texts, and images, to the more intricate nuances that make your site stand out.

5. Advanced Features & Widgets: Elevate your website's flair by integrating special effects, widgets, and other interactive features that captivate your audience.

6. Social Media Integration: In today's digital age, connectivity is king. Seamlessly weave in social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, fostering community and enhancing engagement.

7. Flawless Publishing: Once your masterpiece is complete, unveil it to the world. Understand the intricacies of website hosting, ensuring a seamless launch.

8. From Novice to Expert: Whether you're new to Muse CC or seeking to enhance your current skills, our comprehensive modules cater to all proficiency levels, ensuring everyone leaves with newfound expertise.

Why Choose This Course?
The digital landscape is ever-evolving, and a powerful online presence is crucial for personal branding, businesses, educational endeavors, and beyond. Adobe Muse CC, with its no-code approach, democratises web design, making it accessible for everyone.

This meticulously crafted course isn’t just about teaching a tool. It’s about awakening the designer within you, providing insights into modern design aesthetics, user experience fundamentals, and ensuring you’re equipped to create websites that aren’t just functional, but are also visually stunning and user-friendly.

The Adobe Muse CC Experience:
Imagine a world where the barriers to web design are dissolved. A world where your creative visions can be translated into vibrant websites without the cumbersome process of coding. This is the magic of Adobe Muse CC, and we invite you to experience this magic firsthand.

Join us in this enlightening journey through the realms of intuitive web design with Adobe Muse CC. Harness the power to craft beautiful, efficient, and engaging websites, setting you apart in the digital universe. Welcome to the future of effortless web designing!

Courses Frequently Bought Together:

Adobe Photoshop

Microsoft Access Level 1

Course Motivation

There are dozens of web design programs available on the Internet today.  These programs vary in difficulty, from WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors for those people with little to no experience to more complicated programs for professional web designers.   What program you choose to use when you want to design a website will depend on your experience level and your knowledge of code such as HTML and CSS. 

For years now, Adobe has arguably produced the best graphic and web design software programs. Whereas Microsoft has the market cornered on software programs pertaining to data, Adobe certainly is the master of all things graphic.   The popularity of their programs has even contributed to new words in the English language. How many times have you heard, "I bet that picture was photoshopped?"   Of course, Photoshop is a photo editing program made by Adobe.

That said, Muse CC is a newer program created by Adobe. Muse CC is a web design program, as is Adobe Dreamweaver.   However, while Adobe Dreamweaver is for the person who is more experienced with web design and writing code, Muse CC is for the amateur.   You don't need to know how to write code to use Muse CC.   In fact, you won't see a bit of code the entire time you use the program.  

Instead, Muse CC is a WYSIWYG editor. Most of the web designing you'll do in Muse CC is nothing more than drag and drop. In other words, it's easy as most WSIWYG editors are.   However, since Muse CC is from Adobe, you can expect the amazing bells and whistles that make it great.   Just as Photoshop is ten steps ahead of other photo editing programs, you'll find that Muse CC is one of the best (if not the best) WSIWYG editor on the market today.  

Muse CC is a web design program, which means that you can use Muse CC to create websites by allowing you to easily design pages for a website.   Muse can be used to create personal or business websites, ecommerce sites or educational sites, as well as small or large sites. Whatever type of site you want to create, you can use Muse CC to create it.

However, there are a few things to keep in mind when using Muse CC so you are not disappointed. Since it is a WSIWYG editor, it is intended for those who want a simple program or don't know how to write code. If you want to create a fancy website and add a lot of your own code to your pages, then Adobe Dreamweaver will probably be the better program for you. Muse CC is simple. It makes designing websites easy – and even fun. Plus, the websites you create using Muse CC can look just as attractive and professional as any website you could design using Dreamweaver or any other web design program.   Muse CC just makes it (again) easier.

This course was designed to teach you how to use Muse CC to design websites. It doesn't matter if you have experience using Muse CC.   It also doesn't matter if you've ever designed a website before.   This course will start at the beginning, teaching you what you need to know about web design and graphics so you get the most out of designing websites using Muse.  

After that, we'll delve into the Muse program. However, we'll start at the very beginning with that as well so that every lesson in this course becomes a building block for the one that follows.   By the end of the course, you'll have designed at least the first page of your website if you want.   You'll be surprised at how easy it was – and how professional your page looks.

The course is taught using step by step instructions, followed by exercises and assignments at the end of each lesson.   Lesson exercises consist of questions to quiz you on what you learned.   These exercises are mandatory for all students in order to successfully complete the course. Lesson assignments also follow each lesson, but these are optional for all students. Lesson assignments take what you learned in the recent lesson and put them to work as you design your own website.