During the workshop this week the group was introduced to Adobe Muse, a relatively new Adobe platform which allows for the creation of professional websites without the need of intrinsic web design and HTML code knowledge. Muse struck me as a similar platform to Indesign only for web developers, which is amazing because a lot of times there’s so many issues and bugs you can come across with making a website the old fashioned way, with Adobe Muse this isn’t the case and the learning curve is stripped to its simplest. An important thing to note howeevr, just because Muse has premade assets and the ability to quickly put together a functioning website, you still need to have fundamental knowledge of design in order to have a fully operational website which looks and feels professional.
In the workshop I played around with adding different forms and trying hover effects with muse, the images below highlight some of the things I learnt whilst using it.
Overall I find myself warming up to Muse, it’s easier than coding html and css, and whilst it’s still new and not entirely perfect I see myself using this towards the end of the module for one of the few different output formats for the module.