Learning Adobe Muse -- Table of Contents -- Learning Adobe Muse -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example text and image -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Welcome to Muse -- What is this Muse you speak of? -- Where to find Muse -- The Muse workspace -- The Welcome screen -- To open a recent site -- To create a new site -- Views -- Saving your site -- Opening a page in Design view -- The toolbar -- Using the tools -- The Control Panel -- Panels -- Expanding and collapsing panels -- Hide all panels -- Open a panel -- Rearranging panels -- The document window -- Rulers, guides, and grids -- Header and footer guides -- Grid overlay -- Zooming -- Changing magnification -- Undoing actions -- Getting help and more resources -- Muse updates -- Summary -- 2. The Muse Workflow -- Print workflow versus web workflow -- Pre-Muse planning -- Browser battles -- Resolution -- Download speed -- Where to find more information? -- The Muse workflow -- Create a site -- Why 960 instead of 1024? -- Plan your site -- Design your site -- Preview your site -- Publish your site -- Reviewing and testing a website -- Adobe Business Catalyst -- A brief overview of publishing -- Domain names -- Acquire server space -- Uploading your site -- Summary -- 3. Planning Your Site -- Page layouts -- Bread and butter layouts -- What appears on a typical web page? -- Logo -- Navigation bar -- Content -- Footer -- Wireframes -- What to include in a wireframe? -- Wireframes with Muse -- Site structure with Plan view -- Working with thumbnails in the Plan view.

Working with wireframes -- Saving the graphic style -- Using placeholder images -- Updating placeholder images with final site graphics -- Adding dummy text and paragraph styles -- Where are the files generated by Muse? -- Exercise -- Summary -- 4. Powerful Pages -- Pages -- Master pages -- Working with pages within your site -- Adding a sibling page -- Adding a child page -- Creating a duplicate page -- Deleting a page -- Renaming a page -- Rearranging pages -- Editing page properties -- Page sizes -- Opening, saving, and closing a page -- Working with Master pages -- Creating a new Master page -- Applying a Master page to a web page -- Header and footer guides -- Adding text to a page -- Creating links -- Creating a link to a page in our site -- Creating a link to an external web page -- Creating a link anchor -- Creating an e-mail link -- Understanding two different types of links -- Changing the color of links -- Editing and deleting links -- To edit a link -- To delete a link -- Creating a navigation bar -- Tips for navigation links -- Zooming in, out, and about -- Zooming in -- Zooming out -- Fit page to window -- Making page to its actual size -- Summary -- 5. The Joy of Rectangles -- Working with rectangles -- Setting up a master background rectangle -- Creating a rectangle on individual pages -- Deleting a rectangle -- Adjusting a rectangle -- Rotating a rectangle -- Cutting, copying, and pasting rectangles -- Duplicating a rectangle -- Adding color - fills and strokes -- Adding a stroke -- Stroke alignment -- Stroke widths -- Changing rectangle fill -- Setting a gradient fill -- Adding an image to a rectangle -- Adding effects to rectangles -- Adding a drop shadow -- Adding a bevel effect -- Adding a glow -- Change stacking order of rectangles -- Creating a mixture of round and square corners -- Creating full width rectangles -- Summary.

6. Typography, Muse, and the Web -- The power of text -- Anatomy of type -- Creating text frames -- Clear, compelling, and correct content -- Editing text -- Creating and applying paragraph styles -- Creating and applying character styles -- Using the Context menu in the Character and Paragraph Styles panels -- Headings -- Content organization and hierarchy -- Headings and accessibility -- Headings and SEO -- Creating headings -- Change text case -- Text wrapping -- Web-safe fonts -- Metadata - the hidden text on your page -- Summary -- 7. Working with Images -- Hello web-friendly images -- Choosing the best file format -- JPEG -- GIF -- PNG -- Web-safe colors - a thing of the past? -- Getting images onto your page -- Placing an image -- Adding alternative text -- The image context menu -- Manipulating images -- Resizing an image -- Rotating an image -- Positioning an image -- Duplicating an image -- Cropping an image -- Adding effects to an image -- Pasting an image from another program -- Working with background images -- Adding a logo -- Adding a link to a logo -- Using a tiled image as a background -- Using a photographic image as a background image -- Pinning an image -- Taking care of site files with the Assets panel -- Group objects together to work with them as a single object -- Grouping objects -- Summary -- 8. Customizing with Widgets-Menus and Panels -- Working with widgets -- Adding a widget to the page -- How menu widgets work -- Adding a menu bar -- Selecting the widget and its subelements -- Setting widget options -- Formatting each menu item -- Adding states -- Transferring a style -- Horizontal menus -- Vertical menus -- Accordion panels -- Adding a panel -- Editing Accordion widget elements -- Editing Accordion widget options -- Tabbed Panels -- Deleting a panel -- Summary -- 9. More Widgets-Compositions and Slideshows.

Composition widgets -- Creating a simple photo gallery using a blank composition -- Add content to a target area -- Changing Composition widget options -- Another way to create triggers and targets with multiple images -- Slideshow widgets -- Creating a slideshow presentation -- Insert arbitrary HTML -- Adding a Google Map to your page -- Adding a Twitter (or any other type of) feed to your site -- Summary -- 10. Muse, Meet the Adobe Creative Suite -- Adding a Photoshop rollover button -- States -- Creating a rollover button with multiple states in Photoshop -- Placing the Photoshop button -- Adding a Photoshop image that's not a button -- Editing our Photoshop file -- Paste an image from another program -- Embedding rich media content -- Summary -- 11. Previewing and Testing Your Site -- Previewing pages -- Completing the site -- Preview a page in Muse -- Preview a page in a browser -- Preview the entire site in a browser -- Export HTML for browser testing -- Viewing your home page on an installed browser -- What to test for? -- Test your website on multiple browsers and platforms -- Which browsers and platforms to test? -- Test page optimization -- View pages on a variety of displays -- View pages on different screen resolutions -- Check for adequate color contrast -- Test the functionality of all your widgets -- Test all links, including navigation -- Test all downloads -- Test the site's accessibility conformance -- Proofread all content -- Usability testing -- Creating a device-friendly website -- Summary -- 12. Publishing Your Site -- Adobe ID -- Publishing a temporary site -- Remind me what the .muse file is again -- Editing and updating a site -- Upgrading and launching -- Register a domain name -- Upgrade to a published site -- Associating the domain name with your Muse site -- Re-delegating your domain name -- Alternative hosting.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) -- FTP clients -- Summary -- Index.