Adobe Muse is a discontinued
no code
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offline website builder used to create
fixed, fluid, or adaptive websites,
without the need to write code. Adobe Muse is one of the early pioneer of current 2020s software design trend of
no code movement.
It generates
static pages, but does not manage
hosting. Users can add more advanced functionality such as
blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...
ging and
E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain manageme ...
to their website with plugins created by third-party developers. This application is available to download through
Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription. Technical support for Muse ended on March 26, 2020. The final feature improvement release was made available on March 26, 2018.
Overview
Themes
Adobe Muse themes are created inside Adobe Muse and shared as a .muse file. Themes do not require any configuration or setup to get running. Since Adobe Muse generates static HTML files, the files can be exported to the browser for testing without needing to be hosted. Because of its static nature, however, themes cannot be applied to existing content and content cannot be imported into a theme. Since themes are created inside Adobe Muse, they do not require knowledge of any code. Free starter designs are offered on Adobe Muse. Themes can be viewed via a built in 'Preview' option that allows users to preview their website in the application. Users can also temporarily host their website in
Business Catalyst for free as part of the
Creative Cloud
Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of applications and services from Adobe Inc. that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, along with a set of mobile applications ...
subscription.
Widgets
Adobe Muse widgets are written in an
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...
format called MuCow (Muse Configurable Options Widget).
Widgets are placed onto a Muse canvas and their content is embedded directly into the HTML of the site. Widgets have made it possible for Muse users to add blogs, eCommerce, animations, etc. to a Muse website.
History
When Muse was initially created in May 2012, it was made to generate websites for 3 types of devices (Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile). Using
viewport
A viewport is a polygon viewing region in computer graphics.
In computer graphics theory, there are two region-like notions of relevance when rendering some objects to an image. In textbook terminology, the '' world coordinate window'' is the area ...
s and redirects, a Muse website users would access a site that was built specifically for their generic device type. In May 2012,
fluid design was just beginning to be used mainstream. After years of requests, Muse was made capable to build fully responsive content in its 2015.1 release.
Release history
See also
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Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool from Adobe Inc. It was created by Macromedia in 1997 and developed by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.
Adobe Dreamweaver is available for the macOS and Windows o ...
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CSS framework
A CSS framework is a library allowing for easier, more standards-compliant web design using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Most of these frameworks contain at least a grid. More functional frameworks also come with more features and addition ...
References
External links
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Adobe software
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