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Adobe Muse
Adobe Muse 1.0.948
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Design and publish HTML websites without writing code.   Demo ($14.99)
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Adobe Muse enables designers to create websites as easily as creating a layout for print. Design and publish original HTML pages using the latest web standards, and without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional-looking websites.

Key Features of Muse:
  • Plan your project- Easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and a host of flexible, site-wide tools make it fast and intuitive to get your site planned out and ready for design.
  • Design your pages - Combine imagery, graphics and text with complete
What's New
Version 1.0.948:
  • With this release, you’ll have access to over 400 web fonts served through the Adobe Typekit service. Plus, publishing your website has never been easier, whether you choose to host your site with a 3rd party provider, or use the Adobe Business Catalyst service, our flexible, all-in-one hosting solution.
Requirements
  • Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.6 or later
  • Adobe AIR 3.1 or later



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Adobe Muse User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 1.x:
(4)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
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Pwareham reviewed on 14 May 2012
Total crud. The code this thing generates is horrifically bad, expect to find any site you try to make with this almost invisible to Google.

A WYSIWYG editor to build a website is a pretty much a fantasy anyway. More so now than it has ever been with the popularity of jQuery, AJAX and dynamic CMS-driven sites.
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Whisperquiet reviewed on 13 May 2012
Back to the 80s !!! Thats $14.99 a MONTH. Seems a desperate sales model by a large company ... And the web code it makes seems to link back to Adobe?
Much better products for your 'one time' buck ... Like Flux v4 for WYSIWYG or Coda if you like to code.
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M-Rick replied on 14 May 2012
and the code it produces is not very clean …
Flux does a very better job.
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Beamy commented on 11 May 2012
After clicking the "Download Now" link a website opens and says "Access Denied" and I cannot download the Muse.

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Davidravenmoon replied on 11 May 2012
Do you have an Adobe ID? You probably need to sign in first.
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Tom_bovo replied on 12 May 2012
The link says "download now." It doesn't say "give Adobe some personal information, create an account, log in, and then download." Poor user experience, and it seems, typical for Adobe.
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Davidravenmoon replied on 12 May 2012
Tom, I agree. It happened to me also, and then I logged in, and then the download started. I've had an Adobe ID for years now.
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Davidravenmoon replied on 12 May 2012
Oh yeah, forgot... you also can't install an Adobe trail without logging in when you are at the installer (Application Manager). So even if you could download it, without an Adobe ID you can't run the trail. So you have to login at the website to download, and then login at the Application Manager to install.

Adobe is really tightening up things, probably because of so much pirating. It won't be long before they use a dongle.
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B. Jefferson Le Blanc replied on 12 May 2012
Most commercial web sites require registration in order to purchase something from the site. Adobe is hardly unique in this regard. I admit I was annoyed when I first encountered this phenomenon some years ago but it's so common now that I find resenting it to be a waste of time and energy. I've had an Apple ID, for instance, even longer than I've had an Adobe ID. You've probably forgotten some of your web site logins, like the one for MacUpdate, because they use cookies to log you in automatically. You cannot comment on most blogs without logging in. It's SOP on the Internet now. Not that Internet security is a trivial matter; you can, as an example, block tracking cookies with a browser plug-in and block most web ads as well. There are solutions for the most serious problems.

Among the advantages of providing some personal information to a business web site is that they can send you receipts and shipping notices after you make a purchase. In most instances it's a win/win situation. If a legitimate business sends you e-mail you don't want you can unsubscribe from their mailing list(s). And you can use a spam filter for the illegitimate mail.
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Tom_bovo replied on 12 May 2012
I understand the benefits of having an id for the site. But this is supposed to be a demo download. If they require a login before being able to download, then the link shouldn't say "Download Now" and it should go to a page about the product. To end up with a generic error (Access Denied) page is a bad user experience no matter how you jury to explain it.
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Tim27 replied on 12 May 2012
Adobe does not require an ID to download Flash player or Reader or Air. I see no reason they should require one to download any other demo software. Just one more way for them to annoy their customer base.
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Davidravenmoon replied on 12 May 2012
Because those are free. You need an ID for trial software because it expires.
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B. Jefferson Le Blanc replied on 12 May 2012
The Download Now link is definitely a bad one. I don't know if that's Adobe's fault or MacUpdate's. However, if you click the Visit Developer's Site (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/muse/?PID=3146232) link it will take you right to the Muse page on Adobe Labs web site.

As for annoying the customer base by requiring a user ID, as I said, everyone does it now so you have to be easily annoyed to find this unusual in Adobe.
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Myschizobuddy replied on 12 May 2012
@Tom_bovo You can give them details of a monkey and they will allow you to download it. No one is forcing anyone for personal details.
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Ibeme reviewed on 11 May 2012
I bit the bullet and upgraded to CS5 from CS3; however, I won't be buying anymore Adobe products in the foreseeable. In particular, I won't be buying anything that requires a seriously overpriced, unfriendly to the end-user subscription. Sadly, Adobe has gotten too big, too unwieldy, and too expensive. After playing around with Muse for a couple of hours this morning, I think Muse is a product that's symptomatic of much bigger problems with Adobe's current business model; that is, overpriced, underwhelming, and based on hazy/lazy assumptions about what its users want/need.

I will continue using CS5 for the time being, but I've already started looking for alternative software to replace it--and high quality, user-friendly, alternatives that don't break the bank are easy to find by anyone willing to spend the time looking.

Unless Adobe wakes up and starts paying close attention to what its users are saying, it will find itself on the fast track to being about as relevant as Microsoft has become of late.
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Tvalleau commented on 11 May 2012
Note that Muse is subscription -only- and is $24.95 p/mo. ($14.95 p/mo if you sign up for a year.) You cannot purchase a standalone product.
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Ronnb replied on 11 May 2012
I found another presentation application (Prezi) that does the same thing and found it onerous to pay for a subscription to use an application. I will stick with Fuse or hire a firm to code for me instead.
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Mikebenda reviewed on 15 Jan 2012
FYI: All Muse HTML files include a script linking to their business catalyst service:
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Tim27 commented on 11 Jan 2012
Adobe, you do not have a clue what you are doing. You already had Adobe Muse years ago. You bought a little company called GoLive, remember? They made something called GoLive Cyberstudio and it was awesome. Then you bought it and ruined it, just like you've ruined every Macromedia product as well.
GoLive did almost everything that Muse can do, and that was several years ago. What is the point, really?
Coders are making sites with Coda and TextMate and Eclipse, and using CMSs. A web development firm isn't going to hire someone that can use Muse to build a site. They will hire someone that knows how to code. And if you are only going to use Muse to build a personal site or two, then why would you pay a monthly/yearly subscription fee to do that?
This is a FAIL waiting to fail.
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Mikebenda replied on 11 Jan 2012
So you don't like Adobe. Have you tried using Muse yet?
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Tim27 replied on 11 Jan 2012
Yes, I did. That's why I said it's just like GoLive.
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Ibeme replied on 11 May 2012
I miss GoLive. A bit of a one-trick pony, but it was well written, easy to use, software that did its job well.
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Davidravenmoon replied on 11 May 2012
GoLIve was a great application, and way better than even the current Dreamweaver. I used Golive since it was Cyberstudio.

They have improved Dreamweaver however. Macromedia had the worst user interfaces. They were very un-Mac like.

I played around with Muse a little. It reminded me of GoLive, but a very dumbed down version.

This subscription plan is stupid.
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Iturtle replied on 12 May 2012
Every word so true!
I will never forgive Adobe for killing Golive. That was a wonderful Programm and now they want to replace it with something else because lots of people refuse to use Dreamweaver. Such a wast of energy!
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Mikebenda reviewed on 04 Jan 2012
I'm sure I'm going to get negative marks for this but I like Muse.

It's still beta and therefore has a few bugs, and the feature set is limited, but that should improve before its release.

I work as a print designer. Now and then I need to pull together a website for myself, a client or a friend. I used to use iWeb to quickly mock-up sites for clients (they liked that better than static Photoshop images) then build them in Dreamweaver. However I don't particularly like coding, plus I do it so infrequently that it takes a lot of time.

I've tried Freeway Pro, Flux, Hype, RapidWeaver and Sandvox. I don't like the template-based applications and the others felt like they were fighting me. I find that Muse is the most intuitive and easiest to use.

The only thing that I don't like is Adobe's planned subscription pricing plan. I don't want to rent software, I want to own it.
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Blue4miles replied on 11 May 2012
Try Rapidweaver, with the BlueBall Freestack theme and the related stacks. (you need the stacks 2 plugin too).

It's completely freeform, you can do almost anything, without coding.
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Simty reviewed on 05 Sep 2011
I'm really worried for Adobe. They seem trapped in their own little world where the only people they come in contact with are people already familiar with the Adobe user-interface conventions. Coming from outside the Adobe universe I find it confusing and dark. It's like joining a complicated French film halfway through. I thought it was me but I've since discovered that I'm far from alone.
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Davidravenmoon replied on 11 May 2012
They've had that interface since the late 80s. How could you have been coming from somewhere else? Windoze?

Adobe's interface was very much like the early Mac soft are such as MacDraw. That's where the tool pallet comes from.
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Padinc reviewed on 17 Aug 2011
Lame, so lame. Hype, Rapidweaver, Sandvox, and iWeb all do a way better job than this. The interface is very confusing, and I get a worthless website creator for $180 a year? This isn't even work having for free.
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Gent99 rated on 16 Aug 2011

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Adobe Muse enables designers to create websites as easily as creating a layout for print. Design and publish original HTML pages using the latest web standards, and without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional-looking websites.

Key Features of Muse:
  • Plan your project- Easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and a host of flexible, site-wide tools make it fast and intuitive to get your site planned out and ready for design.
  • Design your pages - Combine imagery, graphics and text with complete control, flexibility and power (almost as if you were using Adobe InDesign).
  • Add interactivity - Drag and drop fully customizable widgets like navigation menus and slide shows, embed HTML code snippets to include things like Google Maps, enable tool tips, rollovers and much more.
  • Publish your site - Preview your site with Muse to see how it looks and test how it works. Then convert to a live website using Adobe for hosting, or export the HTML for hosting with a provider of your choice.
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