Monday, 8 October 2012

Adobe Muse

The book I read to research this post was Brilliant Muse by Ted LoCascio which I borrowed from the library and is an excellent book. Believe me these Brilliant books are pretty good they just show you the steps you need to perform a task and they show you lots of screenshots. As you probably know Adobe do Dreamweaver which is the best web page creation software bar none even if it was originally Macromedia who first created it. To use Dreamweaver requires quite a bit of knowledge of HTML which is somewhat complex and if somebody is primarily a designer they might care much for that. With Muse it is less dependent on HTML and so you can do your site with a few button clicks and visually. I haven't checked the Adobe.com site to check the pricing but in this book it is $14.95 a month if you have it on a yearly basis or $49.95 if you have it on a month by month basis. In addition I think you can try it out for a month free to see if you like it. It's cloud computing but you download and they keep updating it. I think it works out better value than Dreamweaver which I think works out at about £350.00 . I'm going to write a little bit about how you install it. You go to Adobe.com, click buy under the relevant article, you select whether you are buying it on a monthly or yearly basis, click Add to cart, then click checkout twice followed by sign in then fill in the fields, click review order and finally place order. That sets up a Muse subscription. Then you want to install Muse, you click download, click join the creative cloud, click start for free, which gives you a free month to see if you like it. You enter a password and ID, click sign in, accept, Muse, download, click ok to download the Adobe Application Manager, click save file, double click the file icon, double click the installer. Enter your ID & password, click sign in, accept and then click the Adobe Muse Install button. It should then install it on your system and then to start it simply click on the relevant program on the program menu of your computer.

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