Creative Web Design with Adobe Muse is a step-by-step guide to creating fully-featured websites using Adobe Muse. The book takes you from the initial design and prep stage right up to publishing the site.

David Asch is a freelance author, photographer and designer. He has written three titles on Photoshop Elements along with numerous articles on Photoshop and Elements for magazines and websites. He also has a strong grounding in web development and ICT.

Chapter 1: Introducing Muse

The main user interface

Tools

Panels

Chapter 2: Design and layout.

Creating a new site in Muse

Master pages: an explanation of the concept of using templates for the site

Site structure: how to add pages and sub-pages to the site

Chapter 3: Designing the Master page template

Styling the background

Working with the page guides, headers and footers

Adding fixed images and text (site consistency)

Creating navigation with the built-in menu system

Chapter 4: Working with individual pages

Adding text content

Creating a text box & pasting from the clipboard

The character panel

Creating character and paragraph styles

Adding images

Placing images from a file & pasting from the clipboard

The fill panel

Creating image styles

Creating manual hyperlinks (text and graphic)

Creating site-wide link styles

Adding Photoshop buttons

Using Muse's widget library

Composition widgets

Menu widgets

Panel widgets

Slideshow widgets

Chapter 5: Advanced techniques

Chapter 6: Publishing the site. This chapter will focus on uploading the completed site to the web

Preparatory work: adding metadata (page descriptions, keywords, etc.)

Exporting the site as HTML (for manual publishing to a pre-existing domain)

Publishing to a Business Catalyst hosted site from within Muse