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Adobe Muse for Web Design & Web Developers<\/h2>\n

What is it:<\/strong> Adobe Muse is a web design and web development program created for designers who don’t have any coding skills. Designers who use Muse do not typically work with developers to\u00a0process their designs into code. Instead, the designers themselves have a simple tool they can use to build a website without any coding ability.<\/p>\n

How does it work:<\/strong> Adobe Muse allows you to create a website the way you would create a Photoshop graphic; it’s a very visual process, and the code does not get in the way of your creativity. This way of working is very comfortable and familiar to graphic designers.<\/p>\n

Why we tested it:<\/strong> At Social Patterns located in Roseville, we are a firm believer in using the best, most up to date software for our services like Web Design<\/a>, SEO, <\/a>and Internet Marketing Services<\/a>. Because we use the most up to date software and platforms we wanted to check in on Adobe Muse and see if it’s worth it. We are still a bit unsure about using Adobe Muse for many reasons (see below).<\/p>\n

We love to experiment with new technology in web design and SEO to see if we can uncover som useful new tools. While adobe muse isn’t that new, we’ve gotten some questions from our clients about Adobe Muse. So we wanted to finally give it a run to see if we could ever seriously use it as a web design tool for our clients.<\/p>\n

Our main office is in Roseville CA, but we service the Greater Sacramento area with our\u00a0Internet Marketing<\/a>, Web Design<\/a>, Graphic Design and SEO services<\/a>. If you have any questions about Adobe Muse, WordPress, Magento, Joomla or Drupal, give us a call anytime! We are always here to help.<\/p>\n

Is Adobe Muse viable for professional web design?<\/h3>\n

Sure Muse would work for a personal website “project,” but does it have enough steam to be taken seriously as a professional web design and development tool?<\/p>\n

Muse feels at home to Adobe users<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adobe Muse feels like a mix between\u00a0Photoshop<\/a> and InDesign, but it allows you to create full blown web pages and websites straight from a graphical design program.<\/p>\n

From basic galleries to navigation, you can create the most basic to more advanced websites with Adobe Muse; Although I don’t know why you would.<\/p>\n

What Adobe Muse lacks<\/strong><\/p>\n

In my opinion, Adobe Muse lacks many of the core features and functionality that you would need to manage your website. Adobe Muse is not a CMS (Content Management System) and using a CMS can add a lot of functionality to your site.<\/p>\n

From a design standpoint, Adobe Muse is awesome! You can create almost anything you want (regarding design) for your website. However, this is also now possible with newer technologies such as visual composer<\/a> and other drag and drop website builders.<\/p>\n

If you were to use any new Adobe Software, you might want to be looking at the Adobe Business Catalyst as there are many more features and functionality built in. We recently read a pretty good review on the Adobe Business Catalyst<\/a> by a fellow local marketing and web design company in El Dorado Hills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are also a good amount of videos that will explain Adobe Muse in a much more hands-on review. One of those examples can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adobe Muse Layout<\/h3>\n

If you have used Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign before, you will find Muse fairly intuitive. As with each of those other programs, you do have to learn to use the individual program itself, as all Adobe products have different commands and functionality.<\/p>\n

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However, many things are also similar and intuitive and have that adobe feel. It is much easier to learn Muse if you already have experience using Adobe products.<\/p>\n

Designing Without Coding<\/h3>\n

The main benefit of Muse is that it lets you create a website even if you have no coding experience, whatsoever. The only other way for a person who is not coding proficient to create a website is to use a pre-made template or website builder. However, it can result in a website that looks like a bunch of other websites online.<\/p>\n

Also, you may have the issue that your website does not do what you want it to, or look how you want it to look because it is being built with a constrained framework.<\/p>\n

Muse lets you build a website completely from scratch, with almost unlimited number of options, without having to know even the most rudimentary basics of HTML.<\/p>\n