Adobe Updates Beta of Muse for Coding-free HTML5 and CSS3 Site Creation
The Holy Grail of a tool that allows print-oriented designers to create websites without having to master or even understand the underlying HTML code that comprises them is almost as old as the Web itself. Take NetObjects Fusion, for example. Launched way back in 1996, it provided a visual interface for designers to lay out pages. Once designed, the program generated the code for the site and everything was then uploaded to the user's server. Bingo, all the benefits of an environment familiar to designers, with none of the hassle of understanding what was going on under the hood. But insulating the designer from the code came with a price. As the capabilities of the Web evolved, such pages became a subset of what those coding by hand could accomplish. And the code generated by NetObjects Fusion was a rat's nest of tables, relying on single-pixel GIFs for content alignment. NetObjects Fusion is still with us , by the way, thankfully having abandoned tables and GIFs some time ago.
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