Designers Make Websites Without Knowing Code With Adobe Muse

Create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. You can design and publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional websites.

Adobe makes programs like InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, which enable nearly every graphic designer on the planet to create nearly every piece of visual content you've ever laid your eyes on. Naturally, their bread and butter is making graphic designers happy. So their newest product, Muse, hopes to make life even easier for designers--specifically ones working in more traditional mediums who are being tapped to take on more web-based projects--as an ultra-simplified, graphically focused tool for making websites.

Design and publish HTML websites without writing code

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Muse is probably too simple for a serious designer at this point, but it doesn't offer enough handholding for the amateur who wants to build an attractive custom site. The tool nevertheless effectively fills a gap between DreamWeaver and iWeb for those who don't want to deal with HTML but want more control over design than template-based site builders offer.

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Adobe Flash Catalyst™ Explore the new professional interactive design tool from Adobe.

Adobe Flash Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.

Create the user experience through an approachable interaction design tool for designers with no coding required:

• No coding required: Create the user experience and make it functional without coding.
• Sell your ideas: Be able to show a functional design instead of static screenshots to communicate your ideas.
• Ensure your creative vision is accurately expressed: Design with the expressiveness of Flash Player including graphics, typography and 3D effects.

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Rapidly create and deliver a finished SWF file or collaborate more effectively with developers:

• Fast learning curve: If you can use Photoshop or Illustrator you can quickly learn to use Flash Catalyst.
• Fast Interaction Design: Transform native Photoshop and Illustrator files into functional user experiences. Publish finished projects for distribution as a SWF file.
• Collaborate more effectively with developers: Provide Flash Catalyst projects to developers who use Flash Builder to add additional functionality and integrate with servers and services.

Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder are based on the open source Flex 4 framework.

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