Web Design Tools: Previews of Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Stephen Beale
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Adobe MuseAdobe Muse targets print designers who’d like to work on the web. Adobe Edge enables Flash-like animation using open web standards.

Creative professionals have long relied on a core set of software products from Adobe Systems to get their jobs done. And so purchase decisions have largely boiled down to whether the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash Professional et al are worth the upgrade prices. But within the past couple of months, the company has unveiled pre-release versions of two entirely new applications for creative pros.

Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge — both code names — are geared for online projects, but each is aimed at a different group of users. Adobe Edge is for web designers who wish to create Flash-like animations using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, so the content will play in browsers that don’t have the Flash Player. Adobe Muse is for print designers who are comfortable with Adobe InDesign, but have avoided the complexities of web development. It lets them create sophisticated websites using familiar layout tools, and then automatically generates the HTML, CSS and JavaScript needed to render those sites.

Pre-release versions of both are currently available for free download (Find Muse at Adobe.com and Edge at Adobe Labs). However, the programs are at different stages of development. Adobe Muse is currently in a public beta and is set for release in Q1 of 2012. Adobe Edge is now available in an early-preview version, and Adobe is seeking feedback from designers about new features they’d like to see added. It’s also set for release next year, but Adobe hasn’t yet indicated a more-specific time frame.

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About Stephen Beale

Stephen Beale has been writing about computer technology since 1983. He’s the author of seven books on computer applications in the graphic arts and a former news and reviews editor for Macworld. He’s currently editor of a website for public relations professionals in health and medicine.

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