David Asch is a freelance author, photographer and designer. He has written three titles on Photoshop Elements along with numerous articles on Photoshop and Elements for magazines and websites. He also has a strong grounding in web development and ICT.

• Chapter 1: Introducing Muse The main user interface Tools Panels Chapter 2: Design and layout. Creating a new site in Muse Master pages: an explanation of the concept of using templates for the site Site structure: how to add pages and sub-pages to the site Chapter 3: Designing the Master page template Styling the background Working with the page guides, headers and footers Adding fixed images and text (site consistency) Creating navigation with the built-in menu system Chapter 4: Working with individual pages Adding text content Creating a text box pasting from the clipboard The character panel Creating character and paragraph styles Adding images Placing images from a file pasting from the clipboard The fill panel Creating image styles Creating manual hyperlinks (text and graphic) Creating site-wide link styles Adding Photoshop buttons Using Muse’s widget library Composition widgets Menu widgets Panel widgets Slideshow widgets Chapter 5: Advanced techniques Chapter 6: Publishing the site. This chapter will focus on uploading the completed site to the web Preparatory work: adding metadata (page descriptions, keywords, etc.) Exporting the site as HTML (for manual publishing to a pre-existing domain) Publishing to a Business Catalyst hosted site from within Muse