I will admit that I am one of the few web designers out there who use WYSIWYG-type tools to create my designs and even a basic framework for a blogging/CMS system with a very hefty theme templating system such as WordPress. Even with this portfolio site design I used Artisteer 3 heavily just for its generated framework and Adobe Photoshop CS2 for all my graphics (as well as using a lot of freebies such as background images and Dingbat fonts and such from various graphic freebie sites) to build it. If it was a standard website, I make things a little faster and easier by using the SiteGrinder3 plugin for Photoshop. Back in those days designers used to brag a lot and about regarding their web designing tools with only Notepad (or some similar text program) for coding and professional graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks for their images and graphics used. Today, not only that web designing trends evolved thanks to the evolving of structure markups such as HTML5 and CSS3, but the web designing community with backup from web developers are making things easier by developing instant web designing software that would help both designers and developers alike to give a blast of visual oomph on their website projects.

With those being said, Adobe is now joining in the convenience innovation trend by introducing the beta version of their upcoming product, now only known as Adobe Muse (codename). An addition to their product lineup of professional graphic programs, illustration programs and web designing programs, Adobe Muse (code name) is their version of their WYSIWYG-type web design generating software that enables both web designers and web developers design and build websites without learning a single line of code. This not only gives a lot of convenience for designers and developers alike, especially for freelancers, but this also gives a chance for an everyday user with little or no graphic and/or web designing background to build their own personal websites.

The pricing for the usage of this product will be on a subscription basis rather than purchasing it as one single software altogether. Nothing is cheap with Adobe, people. At the moment the software is now in beta mode so those who would like to test and check this software out may download the beta for free. Users already built websites using this product while reporting its bugs (if there were any) at the same time. The first version of Adobe Muse (codename) is scheduled to be released sometime in early 2012. Designers and developers who don’t have the “leet” skills to do either one, rejoice!

Why is there (codename) right after the name? Because “Muse,” according to Adobe’s FAQ, is not the final name of the product. They still have yet to come up with the final name of the final release. I still have yet to try the program, but once I get to it I’ll be sure to write a full review when I can.

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