Pros
Smooth Web Design Process. Adobe Muse was created with the needs of web designers in mind. This concerns both the professionals and newbies, who, however, may consider the system a bit complicated. What’s interesting, the dashboard of the system resembles that of Photoshop. As a result, those users, who have ever worked with Photoshop and other Adobe products, will easily get used to Adobe Muse, even if they are non-techies. The service comes with a convenient WYSIWYG editor and there is no need to use coding skills here. At the same time, experienced web designers can practice their HTML and CSS skills to create awesome websites from scratch.
Impressive Design Toolkit. The website builder has an impressive and stunningly powerful toolkit, which provides a broad array of website design options. They make it possible to give your project personalized look by changing the backgrounds, adding scrolling effects, setting shapes, colours, icons etc. The system doesn’t offer a collection of ready made templates, but it makes it possible to create your own website design to come up to your needs.
Advanced Form Builder. Adobe Muse Form Builder allows creating an extensive variety of fields, such as name, contacts, texts, checkboxes, buttons etc. Currently, there is no file upload option here, but you can customize your online form based on your needs and adjust the settings to redirect the messages users send to your email address. This is easy and convenient.
Long Free Trial Period. Adobe Muse offers a 30-day free trial period to let your explore all the system features to the advantage. This term is longer than that in the majority of other website builders and allows getting used to all the features of the website building software.
Offline Website Builder. Being an offline website builder software, the system can be used, even if there is no Internet connection. Just download and install it to start working on your website development. This doesn’t take much effort and time.
Integrated Widgets. The platform provides an extensive choice of integrated free and paid third-party extensions (widgets). A user can individually configure and edit them when needed with no effort at all.
Responsive Designs. The service allows creating responsive websites from scratch. It has recently released an update, which makes it possible to make any default Adobe Muse composition widget responsive prior to placing it on a page. All the content available in the Form, Slideshow and Composition widgets will automatically adjust to any screen sizes and resolutions.
Cooperation with Reputable Template Providers. Adobe Muse doesn’t have its ready made template collection, but it allows building themes for personal and business use from scratch. At the same time, the website builder software effectively cooperates with reputable template providers (MuseFree, Muse-Themes, Musegain, MuseGrid etc.) to provide a broad array of template choice.
Cons
Adobe Muse is undoubtedly a great help to people who don’t code. However, we think it has a very small potential user-base. With web design, you need graphic design skills, motion design skills and understanding of how to create interactions.
In our opinion, professional graphic designers are more likely to team up with developers and other specialists to create complex projects. This leads us to conclude that Adobe Muse will be mainly used to create small static websites focused on visuals, rather than feature-rich sites, though Muse makes it possible to add a blog and eCommerce.