Web Activity 7-- Dingo

As I am working on a digitally delivered training for Juniata College entitled Safety and Security for Short-Term Study Abroad Leaders, I took the opportunity to use Web Activity 7 to do a mock-up of how a web site might organize the training content. I have been a beta tester for the new Adobe codeless web design product Muse (code name). This program allows one to design web sites merely with tools typical of design layout programs such as InDesign. The below screen shot shows the page in Muse one can use to plan the layout of the different pages in a web site.

The bottom page defines the master or what will be present on every page. My master has a tiled map background, a blue header, a lighter blue box for text and a horizontal menu that links to my main pages-- Home, Legal Concepts, Pre-Departure Tools and On-Site Procedures.

Each of my main pages are defined at the top of the planning screen with nested or 'child' pages for content relating to each main page below it. Below are my main pages with content that will be expanded in nested pages listed in blue.

Home

Legal Concepts

Pre-Departure Tools

On-Site Procedures

If you like what Muse can do with no coding by the designer, you can download a free copy from the Adobe site to use without charge while it is still in the beta testing stage. Muse's release, under a different name, is expected sometime in the first half of 2012. It will be sold as a subscription service after it is released.

Matt Dingo
March 4, 2012