Adobe Muse / Features
Plan your site
Quickly lay a smart foundation for your site so you can spend more time designing. Easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and automatically applied layout basics in Adobe® Muse™ software make it fast and intuitive to plan your work.
Sitemaps
Arrange your pages with an easy-to-use sitemap that allows you to set up and change site structure quickly. Drag and drop, name, and resize your thumbnails. Watch the video ›
Sitewide properties
Define layout basics that are automatically applied throughout the site, including page widths and margins, alignments, and hyperlink colors.
Design with freedom
Get into a creative groove combining imagery, graphics, and beautiful typography with the power of styles, roundtrip editing, and more. Enjoy intuitive control and all the precision you expect from Adobe design tools.
Familiar Adobe tools
Create layouts intuitively with Smart Guides and the Paste In Place and Edit Original commands. Use other familiar features such as the Eyedropper tool, columns, gutters, and more. Watch the video ›
Web font choices
Choose from more than 400 web fonts served by the Adobe Typekit® service within the Adobe Muse interface, or use system fonts that are converted to images and tagged automatically. Watch the video ›
Dynamic page resizing
Enjoy automatic page length adjustment. Adobe Muse layouts resize in height as much as needed to accommodate the length of your page content. Watch the video ›
Image optimization
Know that your images will look great and load perfectly for the web. Adobe Muse automatically optimizes PSD and PNG files when you publish. Watch the video ›
Roundtrip editing
Edit images with Adobe Photoshop® or Fireworks® software using Edit Original. Your changes will be automatically reflected in your layout when you save. Watch the video ›
Text and paragraph styles
Create and format text, saving text styles just as you would in Adobe InDesign® software. Styles are preserved in CSS, which is automatically generated sitewide.
Backgrounds
Fill your background with a single image, repeating images, or any fill you choose — optimized for the best page-load performance. Watch the video ›
Pin persistent objects
Easily pin an object to any spot you choose so that it always displays in that location, even when you scroll up or down the page. Watch the video ›
Headers and footers
Assign header and footer areas that repeat on every page. Footers will automatically shift to the bottom of the page no matter what the length of your content is. Watch the video ›
Flexible width
For full control over your layout appearance, set elements to display at 100% browser width so your design adapts to the size of the browser window. Watch the video ›
Asset management
Keep track of all image assets associated with your site using the Assets panel, which includes the option to relink your images.
Page preview
Preview your design in Adobe Muse or in your favorite browser to check how the site is shaping up and test how your interactivity is behaving.
Add rich interactivity
Engage your audiences with interactive slide shows and lightboxes. Take them through your site with custom navigation, tabs, and accordions. Embed arbitrary HTML, and add social media buttons and feeds. Access the widget library panel in Adobe Muse to get started.
Auto-generated navigation
Drag and drop fully customizable navigation menus that automatically reflect the pages in your sitemap. Watch the video ›
Defined object states
Easily define up, over, down, and normal states for any object in Adobe Muse. Create buttons by applying states to individual Adobe Photoshop layers. Watch the video ›
Embedded HTML
Add Google Maps, videos from YouTube, feeds from Facebook, and more. Simply copy the source code and paste onto your Adobe Muse canvas. Watch the video ›
Anchor links
Quickly create anchor links that take visitors to a specific location in the middle of a page or design. Watch the video ›
Slide shows
Drag and drop a fully customizable slide show widget for an easy, eye-catching way to display a series of images. Watch the video ›
Tabbed and accordion panels
Organize lengthy information in visually appealing, bite-size chunks by using fully customizable tabbed or accordion panels. Watch the video ›
Lightboxes
Create an overlay that brings special focus to an image, video, or other content by having it appear in a layer on top of your page. Watch the video ›
Triggers and targets
Define hotspots or triggers that display additional content when a user clicks or rolls over the area. Watch the video ›
Preview and publish
Preview in Adobe Muse or in your favorite browser to check how the site is shaping up. Publish using Adobe for hosting, with quick conversion from trial site to live, or export to a provider of your choice.
Trial sites for testing
Create a trial site for preview, hosted with Adobe, so that you can test it in the real world. You can send URLs to clients for online review.
Adobe hosting
Publish and manage your sites with Adobe hosting. Quickly convert trial sites to live sites without having to move files. Plus, monitor your live sites with dashboard reporting. Watch the video ›
Browser compatibility
Enjoy knowing your layouts will look great in a variety of browsers. Adobe Muse creates code that is cross-browser compatible, so you can focus on your design.
Option to export your site
Host your site with a provider of your choice. Go live by simply exporting your Adobe Muse site and using FTP to upload files to any provider. Watch the video ›
