Adobe Muse Getting Started Training Course

Course Dates

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RRP: £325.00
Web Special: £295.00

Maximum Class Size

In order to ensure every student gets the most out of the course we have a maximum class size of:

London

8 Delegates

York

5 Delegates

This one day Adobe Muse training course is aimed at designers looking to create HTML5 and CSS3 standards compliant websites without actually having to write any code.

Adobe Muse lets you plan, design and publish content as easily as you do with print material, making use of master pages, a vast range of web fonts and a whole range of built in tools for interactivity.

Audience

The course is aimed at designers who want to produce professional looking content for the web without having to write code.

Prerequisites

You should be computer literate.

Course Outline

The Muse Workspace

  • Planning your site
  • Touring the workspace
  • Understanding modes
  • Working Design Mode
  • The toolbox
  • Muse panels
  • Zooming and panning
  • Preview mode

Creating your site

  • Creating a new site
  • Editing site properties
  • Creating a sitemap
  • Adding and deleting pages
  • Arranging pages
  • Page Properties

Master pages

  • Web deign versus Print design
  • Resolutions
  • Web navigation
  • Building a master page
  • Adding a logo to the header
  • Adding a navigation menu
  • Adding content to the footer
  • Creating new master pages
  • Applying master pages

Adding and styling text

  • Inserting text
  • Formatting text
  • Selecting a font
  • Changing the color of text
  • Adjusting font size
  • Creating type styles

Working with shapes and color

  • The rectangle tool
  • Creating 100% width content
  • Applying a background image
  • Creating a line
  • Working with colour
  • Save and edit a swatch
  • Working with gradients

Adding images to your site

  • Web image basics
  • Resolution
  • Colour
  • Image formats
  • Importing images
  • Placing an image
  • Moving cropping and resizing
  • The selection tool
  • Wrapping text around content
  • The assets panel
  • Relinking images
  • Fixing broken links

Working with links and buttons

  • Creating links
  • Email links
  • Styling your links
  • Working with anchors
  • Working with Buttons

Applying Effects, graphic styles and inserting HTML

  • Working with rounded corners, effects and opacity
  • Shadow effects
  • Bevel effects
  • Glow effects
  • Graphic styles
  • Embedding HTML
  • Adding a Google map

Working with widgets

  • Inserting a composition widget
  • Adding or deleting a trigger
  • Editing a trigger
  • Working with slideshows
  • Adding a blank slideshow widget

Publishing and exporting your site

  • Understanding Muse publishing
  • Publising your page
  • Making and uploading edits
  • Exporting your site as HTML