![]() As a matter of fact, there are programs and applications out there that create clickable wireframes for you. We don’t talk a ton about using Muse as a tool for wire framing. Squarebox Sliders are great fit for any type of business or mobile phone app website. This means that your slider’s background can be one solid color, while different objects slide across the background (such as screen shots, app shots and more). This widget creates a slider that uses square and block elements. Sliders are a bit of a conundrum in Muse, but there are work arounds available. Each icon comes as a circle, square, or drop shape. If you’re not interested in that, but would rather have a link that takes to each account, then this is the widget for you. The problem with these is that they’re not icons, but more like the buttons associated with following or liking each account. Muse has widgets that come with the program that are dedicated to social media. This is definitely useful if you have a site full of information for your readers. This code allows your website to be downloadable on some iPhones and viewed much like an app on a mobile device. This one is different because it adds some code to your page. Most of the widgets on this list are ways to add aesthetics to your page. The lightbox contains plenty of space to explain a project and how it was made. It is highly decorated, but can be edited which makes it a great place to start for an image portfolio. The Genius Gallery is an attempt to create an image gallery along with a lightbox for those of us who want to show off some photography or other pieces of work. This is definitely a handy widget for product and business sites. This FAQ Box widget is a combination of different widgets that creates a standard FAQ box that reveals a question and answer next to its graphical representation. If you’ve used Muse, you’ll know that there are some widgets already available, but when you want to use them, you have to do lots of styling to them in order to get them the way you want. This is a simple widget that fixes this problem by creating several different prototypes and placeholders to be used when you’re just creating ideas in Muse. Muse also doesn’t have any type of dummy text generator. One thing that Muse is missing is the ability to have placeholders for images when you’re just having ideas or perhaps the pictures aren’t ready yet. It’s a matter of dragging and dropping what you want into place. It’s no secret that creating a website in Muse is exceptionally easy. This widget takes the guess work out of creating colorful and interesting navigation bars by providing 5 ready-to-use variations. They’re gray with no real style and will take lots of creativity to make something fun and unique. ![]() ![]() Menus are pretty easy to make in Muse, however, they’re bland right out the widget library. This Preloader widget adds a spinning animation along with a custom message, visible to readers before they see the page. It makes a bolder statement when each piece is shown together rather than allowing it to pop up one at a time. Sometimes as designers, we’d really like these things to load before you get a chance to see them. There are times when there’s a lot going on with a website. They’re obviously important, so today, we’ve decided to showcase a bunch of stellar Adobe Muse widgets. After you create the design of your website, these features in the Library are what add the pizzazz and functionality to your website. Widgets range from contact forms, to light boxes, to menus, to full screen slideshows. The best part about Muse is the Library filled with widgets that you can add to your website. I immediately downloaded Adobe Muse CC and have been playing with it since. He revealed to me it was no big deal because he’d done it in Adobe Muse. My colleague was showing me a wonderful parallax website he made and I asked him if he could teach me how to do it. Since then, I’d just stayed away from it until recently. How was this possible? What were the limitations? What took them so long? I must admit, I tried Muse when it was in beta and didn’t really get it because it didn’t really feel natural enough. They created this WYSIWYG editor mixed with InDesign that could produce real live websites. You could imagine my excitement as well as other non-coders worldwide. In 2011, Adobe sent shockwaves through the design community by introducing Adobe Muse: design software that made websites.
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