When I think of design tool applications, I think of literal
applications such as Adobe. I am
not sure if this is the proper thought, maybe I don’t completely understand it
but I am just going to go with it. Muse or Dreamweaver are website design
applications. Muse, being Adobe Creative Cloud’s newest web app, includes the
simplicity and beauty of constructing a website- without the coding.
Dreamweaver, as some of us are familiar with does in fact have coding. Me, not
being a coder, is starting to teach myself Muse. When starting a new website,
it actually has a tool, that helps you map out everything you need; the pages,
what goes on the pages, what goes where and all of that good stuff. Now, it may
not be seen on my blog, but if I wanted to take this blog further, I can
actually put it into Muse, and make a real website of this blog. You can also
include other design tool apps such as social media, which will help you
promote your blog. (They also have an app for that.) There are so many tool in
design that I do get confused on which ones are which and what does what, but
that is a tool I will one day incorporate, if not totally redo.
I'm sorry but I really can't take your background! I'm writing this at 11pm, my eyes are already tired and boy talk about seeing ghosts when I look away. That said, it sounds like Muse is very similar to blogger. I don't know if you realize this or not but blogger allows you to move information to different locations, make the background different colors, widen the central text box, wrap text, change fonts and other features. All of these changes are essentially re-writing the webpage's code. I got married in 2005 and created a website of the wedding through a program that Verizon offered which was essentially like your describing. Back than I too didn't know anything about code but their program aloud me to create pages, link them together and upload pictures. the end result looked quite professional.
ReplyDeleteHi Julie,
ReplyDeleteMaybe if you used a pastel or cream color for you background it would be easier on the eyes. Because the computer science arena is not my area of expertise, I can understand that understand " confusion ". But, I have to say that on a simplistic level I have been able to utilize some of the general properties to my world. I know that I will never have a beautiful blog, but the fact that I can take some of the strategies we are learning and apply them to other areas of my work makes me glad that I took the class!
Janice Szalkowski
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteI checked out the website that you were talking about; Muse. I like how everything is laid out for you and is very understandable. They have used the other informational tools for design that is stated in our books; lines, points, curves, and squares. What is better about this is that you don't have to start with a blank sheet of paper or web page. It has the tools laid out for you with directions to follow. It is made simple for use. Thank you for sharing this with the class.
Laura
I'm glad you mentioned something about Muse and Dreamweaver. I had to make a website for another class once and I had such a hard time with it. Someone told me to use Dreamweaver and nothing really came of it. I'll have to check out Muse which sounds much easier from your description.
ReplyDeleteI've never used Muse before, but after taking a look at it I can see why a designer like its. I've used Dreamweaver in the past and was too pleased with it and had a bit of a hard time using it. Muse definitely seems to be an easier program.
ReplyDeleteJulie your knowledge on the Adobe products is extensive. Professionally I have worked with designers to create websites without a knowledge-base of program language/coding. I'm eager to explore the usability of Muse.
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