
Master the art of building responsive websites with Adobe Muse CC without coding, using visual design, widgets, and navigation to publish clean, browser-compatible sites.
Explore how Adobe Muse enables fully responsive websites across mobile and desktop, with automatic layout adjustments, parallax effects, and typography that adapts to screen sizes.
Plan your site with paper sketches to map structure, layout, and assets. Use Muse to build image and text frames, manage layers and gestures, and share mockups.
Use these files if you decide to follow along the course using the same assets from the video lessons. Make sure you only the included graphics and images for personal use as they are all copyrighted materials.
Alternatively you can work on your own website project. You will need to pick a subject, which could be anything from a friend’s portfolio site to an actual client’s small business website or even just a fan-page for the last movie you saw in the cinema.
Place and manipulate images in Muse CC, using File > Place, crop and resize with proportional scaling, fill frames, replace assets, edit in Photoshop, and preview responsive behavior.
Create shapes in Adobe Muse CC using the rectangle and ellipse tools with fill and stroke colors, corner radii, and opacity, and learn line creation with stroke and transforms.
Learn to create a responsive Muse site by exporting scalable vector graphics from Illustrator as SVGs, placing and aligning them with layers, alt text, and tooltips.
Open the copy file, paste it into a text frame in Muse, adjust size, color, and background fill, and set spacing and center alignment to ensure legible text over images.
Master paragraph styles to apply consistent formatting across text frames in Adobe Muse CC, set headlines and tags for SEO, and save styles for reuse and content hierarchy.
Set up navigation in Adobe Muse by adding anchors and a horizontal menu for a single-page site, linking sections like reasons to visit, Jurassic Coast, sunset, and New Forest.
Learn to create a back-to-top navigation arrow in Illustrator, place it in Muse, and turn objects into links and buttons with internal anchors, external links, and tel or mailto options.
Drag and drop the YouTube widget from the social category into your page, insert a video ID, and customize autoplay, loop, controls, and stretch to browser for a responsive experience.
Add a Google Maps widget to the master page footer, set Bournemouth to zoom 14, remove pin info, and keep road map view. Ensure responsive sizing across screen sizes.
Configure social media widgets in Adobe Muse CC by selecting Facebook button types (like, follow, comments) with counts, and add networks such as Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, or Google Plus.
Add a simple contact form widget, choose recipients and fields, and enable captcha to prevent spam; customize fonts and place it in the footer alongside social links for responsive design.
Master responsive design in Adobe Muse CC by making header elements fluid across breakpoints, centering the logo and navigation, and testing in a browser.
Adjust the tablet breakpoint in Adobe Muse CC by applying per-breakpoint font sizes and colors within the same text frame, ensuring text reflows and responsive layouts.
Build a responsive mobile menu with a hamburger trigger and dropdown, manage tablet and mobile breakpoints, position the menu above content, and prepare for parallax effects.
Use parallax to add depth with layered elements moving at different speeds, kept subtle. Muse provides motion and opacity scroll effects in scroll effects panel, usable with a fixed breakpoint.
Demonstrates implementing an opacity scroll effect on icons and text using key positions and fade positions, adjusting pixel-based delays to create a left-to-right, staggered fade-in with optional grouping considerations.
Explore parallax fill effects in adobe muse cc by applying scroll-based cover reveal to images, testing across fixed breakpoints, and balancing opacity and motion for a subtle responsive design.
Publish your Adobe Muse CC website with three options—export a complete package, upload via FTP host, or publish to Business Catalyst—then manage hosting and domains.
Finish this course by applying your new skills to build something amazing, and check out my other courses as you start a new adventure and reach out with any questions.
Learn how to create a fully-functioning, on trend website using Adobe Muse CC. No need to learn strings of code to develop your sites, plus have huge control over the way they look and function.
This course takes a hands on approach to teaching so if you like you can use the working files to follow along with the videos. They walk you through the whole process from planning to publishing.
This tool is a great addition to any creatives’ skill-set, opening up a whole new world of possibilities, clients and projects.In this course you will first establish the design of our website.
A closer look at what you will learn:
Everything involved in planning a website.
How to design everything in Muse, including working with images, shapes, text and more.
Adding interactivity such as navigation, widgets, links and buttons etc.
At this point we will already have a working website. Then explore more the more complex capabilities of Adobe Muse and improve the website with the following features:
Making the site responsive for it to look good on all screen sizes
Learning about parallax effects in Muse.
Finally learn about optimising your site for SEO and how to publishing the site online.
Working alongside the videos will help you to make the most of this course. You will need to pick your own subject. Which could be anything from a friend’s portfolio site to an actual client’s small business website. If you are unsure you could even just create a fan-page for the last movie you saw in the cinema.
Who will find it useful:
Anyone interested in building their own website either portfolio or for a client.
Beginners to Muse who would like to gain plenty of confidence in the software.
Current users who are looking to improve their knowledge.
Those interested in Web, UI or UX design.
You will need Adobe Muse CC to complete this task.
Don’t forget to also submit your finished work to the Muse Site of the Day to get your work out there and find potential clients.
Martin is an Adobe Certified Instructor who has years of experience teaching in both and online in classroom environments. He has also worked professionally in the creative industry for over 10 years on a wide range of projects. The examples and techniques used have been developed over this time to deliver the most efficient and enjoyable approach to teaching and learning.
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