New Adobe Muse Course Launched

(Camarillo, CA – March 22, 2013) Journalist, author, and online course instructor William Harrel and eClasses (eClasses.org) have teamed up once again to announce a new online course. This time, the subject of the class will be Adobe’s new WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Website design app, Muse.

The first session starts on April 1, 2013 and you can sign up or get additional information here: Introduction to Adobe Muse.

Harrel teaches Website design and animation at over 3,000 colleges, universities, and other online outlets, and eClasses is one of the world’s largest and most successful online course publishers.

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What is Adobe Muse?

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Course Overview

This new course, which is under development now, will be entitled: Websites without Coding with Adobe Muse, and will consist of six-week sessions (two lessons per week) covering the following material:

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Muse

• Overview: Designing Websites in Muse
• Plan Mode — Starting a Website in Muse
• Design Mode — The Page Design Interface

Lesson 2 : Creating a Basic Site in Muse

• Mastering Master Pages
• Working with Boxes
• Typography: Working with Text

Lesson 3: Using External Content with Muse

• Using and Formatting Word Processor Text
• External Graphics and Images
• Digital Sound, Video, and other Media

Lesson 4: Working with Widgets

• Creating Compositions
• Web Forms
• Making Menus

Lesson 5: More Widgets and Templates

• Creating Expanding Panels
• Slick Slideshows
• Using Templates with Muse

Lesson 6: Using other CS6 Programs with Muse

• Using Photoshop and Fireworks with Muse
• Using Photoshop Buttons with Muse
• Using Edge Animate with Muse

Lesson 7: Interactivity: Triggers and Targets

• Making Mouse States
• Interactivity Triggers
• Page Navigation with Targets

Lesson 8: Creating Sites for Mobile Devices

• Repurposing Existing Content
• Formatting Content for Smartphones
• Formatting Content for Tablets

Lesson 9: Stylizing Type with Typekit and Web Fonts

• Decorative Type with Typekit
• 3D Type and other Special Effects
• Working with Web Fonts

Lesson 10: Advanced Web Design Techniques

• Accommodating Flexible Browser Widths
• Embedding Google Maps
• Embedding HTML Code

 

Lesson 11: Working More Efficiently in Muse

• Getting the Most from Master Pages
• Sharing Content between Pages and Sites
• Sharing Muse Content between Media Types

Lesson 12: Publishing Your Muse Websites

• Publishing to Adobe Business Catalyst
• CMS Integration on Adobe Business Catalyst
• Publishing with FTP

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Check back with us for updates and projected course release dates.