{"id":17112,"date":"2011-08-16T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2011-08-16T08:08:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:08:18","slug":"adobe-muse-enables-great-web-layout-no-coding-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/adobe-muse-enables-great-web-layout-no-coding-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Muse enables great Web layout, no coding required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When&#8217;s the last time you wrote PostScript code to lay out a print page? \u00a0Seems like kind of a bizarre notion, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>With Web design, though, coding is taken for granted, and WYSIWYG apps have come and gone many times. \u00a0But why is it, in 2011, we don&#8217;t have an InDesign-quality visual design tool for the Web?<\/p>\n<p>Enter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/muse\/\">Adobe Muse<\/a>.\u00a0The new app (built by InDesign vets) promises to let graphic designers (especially print designers) &#8220;create websites as easily as you create layouts for print.&#8221; \u00a0It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.adobe.com\/\">free for download in beta form<\/a> right now. Key features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Planning<\/strong> \u2014 Use easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and flexible, site-wide tools.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Design<\/strong> \u2014 Combine imagery, graphics and text almost as if you were using InDesign.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interactivity<\/strong> \u2014 Drag and drop fully customizable widgets (nav menus, slide shows, etc.) &#038; embed HTML code snippets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publishing<\/strong> \u2014 Preview in Muse, then convert to a live website hosted by Adobe or the provider of your choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mashable <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/08\/15\/adobe-muse\/\">writes<\/a>, &#8220;[I]n our tests, the code that Muse outputs is clean and readable.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the team&#8217;s vision: <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AdobeTV Video Player\" width=\"425\" height=\"256\" src=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/embed\/762\/10612\/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a more hands-on tour of the functionality:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AdobeTV Video Player\" width=\"425\" height=\"256\" src=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/embed\/100\/10603\/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See Adobe TV for a <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/show\/muse-code-name-feature-tour\">comprehensive set of videos<\/a> to help you get started making great stuff&#8211;and please let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>[More <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-20091941-93\/adobe-debuts-muse-a-no-code-required-site-builder\/?part=rss&#038;subj=news&#038;tag=2547-1_3-0-20&#038;tag=nl.e703\">coverage &#038; perspective is on CNET<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When&#8217;s the last time you wrote PostScript code to lay out a print page? \u00a0Seems like kind of a bizarre notion, doesn&#8217;t it? With Web design, though, coding is taken for granted, and WYSIWYG apps have come and gone many times. \u00a0But why is it, in 2011, we don&#8217;t have an InDesign-quality visual design tool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}