Course Code: hsts-c25
With this Adobe Muse training course, learn to plan, design, and publish HTML pages to the latest web standards using familiar Adobe tools. Easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and drag-and-drop workspaces allow you to work quickly. Tools for interactivity, image control, precision typography, and browser pinning, enable a rich design experience.
- Overview of the workspace
- Creating your site
- Working with master pages
- Adding and styling text
- Working with shapes and color
- Adding images to your site
- Working with links and buttons
- Applying
- Working with widgets
- Publishing and exporting your site
Students must have a good working knowledge of computers, operating systems, using a mouse, keyboard, standard menus and commands. Students must be able to open, save, and close applications and files, as well as navigate to other folders.
Web Designers
Graphic Designers
Design HTML Pages
This course is available in a self-paced video format starting at $60. Click here to learn more and register. For complete self-paced web design training, visit our Web design and development bundle page.
Our live courses are also offered via our enterprise training program which comes with:
Feel free to contact us by email or phone to discuss your training needs and get a quote.
In-person in DC or live online for $2990 per course
Our courses are offered all year around. Upon registration we enroll you to the earliest available class but you can reschedule it free of charge.
Our classes are taught on the most current version of software whenever possible. To request a specific version, please Contact Us or call us at 240-200-6131
1. Overview of the Workspace
A typical Muse web workflow
Create a site concept
Create your Muse site file
Plan your site
Design your pages
Preview your pages
Publish your site
Touring the Workspace
The Welcome screen
Understanding Modes
Working in Design mode
The Toolbox
The Control panel
Working with panels
Zooming and panning
Scrolling through a document
Preview mode
2. Creating Your Site
Creating a new site
Edit the site properties
Creating and editing your site map
Adding and deleting pages in your site
Arranging pages in the site map
Setting page properties
Adding page metadata
3. Working With Master Pages
Web design versus print design
Resolution
Fixed, yet fluid design
File size
Understand web navigation
Design with interactivity in mind
Building a master page
Editing the page area and browser fill
Editing master page properties
Editing the master page guides
Adding a logo to the header
Adding a navigation menu
Assigning content to the footer
Creating new master pages
Applying master pages
Testing your pages
4. Adding and Styling Text
Inserting text
Typing text
Placing text
Formatting text
Child pages
Parent page
Top-level pages
Sibling pages
Adjusting Font Size
Selecting a font
Changing alignment, leading, and letter spacing
Adjusting paragraph indents, margins, and spacing
Changing the color and case of text
Creating Type Styles
Creating and applying paragraph styles
Clearing overrides and editing a paragraph style
Deleting and duplicating a paragraph style
Unlinking a paragraph style
Creating and applying a character style
Editing a character style
Pasting text between Muse sites
Rotating a text frame
5. Working With Shapes and Color
Working with shapes
Drawing with the Rectangle tool
Creating 100% width content
Applying a background image to a frame
Creating a line
Creating a dotted line
Working with color
Creating and applying a color fill
Sampling color
Saving and editing a swatch
Creating and editing a color stroke
Duplicating and deleting a color swatch
Working with gradients
6. Adding Images to Your Site
Web-image basics
Resolution
Color
Image formats
Importing images
Placing an image
Placing a Photoshop file ( .psd)
Moving, cropping, and resizing images
Transforming images with the Selection tool
Locking and grouping content
Rotating images
Wrapping text around content
Understanding the Assets panel
Relinking images
Editing original
Fixing broken and modified links
Pinning content
Inserting Flash files
Adding alternative text and a title to images
7. Working With Links and Buttons
Working with Links
Creating an internal link
Creating an external link
Creating an e-mail link
Editing link properties
Styling your text links
Adding links to images
Working with anchors
Creating anchors
Linking to an anchor
Working with buttons
Creating a button in Muse
Using the States panel to add button states
Adding a link to a button
Setting up a button in Photoshop
Placing your Photoshop button
Adding a link to your Photoshop button
8. Applying
Working with rounded corners, effects, and opacity
Rounding the corners of a frame
Applying a Shadow effect
Applying a Bevel effect
Applying a Glow effect
Adjusting opacity
Working with graphic styles
Creating and applying a graphic style
Clearing overrides and editing a graphic style
Embedding HTML
Adding a Google map
Editing the embedded HTML
9. Working With Widgets
About widgets
Inserting a composition widget
Inserting a Lightbox Display composition widget
Editing composition widget options
Adding or deleting a trigger
Editing a trigger
Adding content to a target area
Working with slideshows
Adding a Blank slideshow widget
10. Publishing and Exporting Your site
Understanding Muse publishing
Excluding pages from export
Publishing your site
Making and uploading edits
Upgrading a temporary Business Catalyst site
Exporting your site as HTML