Adobe Muse training class

Adobe Muse training class: Full course outline

Organizing and planning to build your website in Adobe Muse

• Thinking like a web designer
• Print vs. web design
• understanding web graphics
• Understanding web typography
• The limits of Muse

Getting started with Muse

• Introduction to the Muse workspace
• Using the different view modes
• Understanding the tools
• Using the Selection Indicator

Creating a new site using Muse

• Exploring new site options
• Creating a sitemap
• Site properties

Working with master pages

• Overview of Master Pages
• Setting up a Master page
• Learning about page properties
• Secondary Master pages
• Create headers and footers
• Adding a favicon

Working with text in Adobe Muse

• Placing text on a page
• Formatting text
• Web-safe and non-web-safe fonts      
• Using Edge Web Fonts
• Creating paragraph styles
• Creating character styles
• Wrapping and object around text

Working with images using Muse

• Placing Images in Muse
• Understanding image size and resolution
• Resizing and cropping images
• Optimizing graphics in Muse
• Understanding the Assets panel
• Adding background images
• Creating repeating backgrounds

Creating links in your Muse website

• Inserting hyperlinks
• Adding email links
• Formatting links
• Using link anchors

Creating menus and navigation with Muse

• Creating a basic menu
• Inserting a button
• Using the States panel
• Modifying menus

Formatting objects

• Transforming objects
• Working with groups
• Aligning and Distributing
• Applying rounded corners
• Using effects
• Creating graphic styles

Working with layers in Muse

• Introduction to the Layers Panel
• Understanding stacking order
• Locking and hiding objects

Use widgets to add interactivity to your site

• Introduction to widgets
• Tab and Accordion widget
• Button widgets
• Working with the States panel
• Creating a thumbnail slideshow
• Creating a lightbox slideshow

Importing graphics from CC apps

• Importing from Photoshop
• Importing from Illustrator
• Importing graphics from InDesign

Adding interactive content

• Adding video files
• Adding audio files
• Adding content from Edge

Integrate with social media

• Inserting videos from YouTube, Hulu, or Flickr
• Adding a Facebook Like button
• Working with Twitter

Creating forms using Muse

• Creating a simple form
• Understanding text form fields
• Creating a contact form

Publish your site with Adobe Muse

• Exporting your site to HTML
• Publishing via FTP
• Updating your site