Following the release of Edge earlier this month, a new tool for creating HTML5 animations and webpages, Adobe continues its support for HTML5 with the release of Muse, which makes it easy for those without any prior knowledge of HTML5 or CSS3 to create websites.
With Apple’s iWeb software set to die out with MobileMe, Adobe’s Muse could be a replacement for those looking to create websites without actually learning any code:
Create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. You can design and publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional websites.
The software is completely free to use while it’s in beta, and is available to download immediately from Adobe’s website. It’s set for release in 2012, at which time you’ll have to upgrade and pay for the software, which RazorianFly reports will cost $15 per month, or $180 per year. Adobe states:
Muse will be available by subscription only. This will allow us to add new features to Muse regularly and customers will always have access to the most up-to-date functionality which is critical when building standards-based content that is cross-browser compatible.
Adobe’s increasing support for HTML5 seems to be a constant indication that the company is accepting the slow demise of Flash, but is this software, and Edge that launched on beta earlier this month, just going to speed up the process?
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
45 responses to “With Flash Dying, Adobe Goes After iWeb With Muse”
Actually it will be $20 month or $180 year. (The yearly rate works out to $15 month).
Looking forward to giving it a try.
Like all of Adobe’s products this seems vastly overpriced for something that makes simple web pages. Almost 200 bucks a year? for a mickey-mouse web editor and some web hosting? And people complained about 100 a year for the entire MobileMe package.
Also, iWeb has been dead in the water for years now. It’s a bit of a stretch to say anyone is “going after it” isn’t it? With iWeb we’re talking about a dead duck floating upside down in a pond. It’s not going to fight back or anything.
If Adobe doesn’t get enough customers, I’m sure they’ll adjust the price. All companies are out to make money, never loose sight of that.
If anything, we should praise Adobe as they clearly see the writing on the wall. No one would even imagine software like Edge or Muse 4 years ago before the iPhone. The trendy thing then was flash sites!
hmm, as a graphic designer I’m interested but the pricing monthly idea seems strange to me.
Had all of the same thoughts Prof. Dreamweaver is more than sufficient to do this, as long as you’re somewhat familiar with web coding. WYSIWYG editors sold as a way for designers to avoid code have never been able to deliver the type of clean code required for rock-solid design anyway. This will be a way for Adobe to capitalize on the unfortunate (and errant) supposition that code is prohibitively hard to learn, and should be avoided at all costs (including this $200/year “service”). Frustrating.
Agreed. I hate Adobe and all their products so I tend to look at the down side on their announcements. Still, why not just make the tool and the hosting separate? A good web editor is always welcome.
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Good. Let Flash go, Adobe and much will be forgiven.
However, you need to cut prices overall. There are many, many $30 to $60 programs on the Mac App Store that are well positioned to begin replacing your Creative Suite apps.
Your girlfriend is your right hand. Admit it.
The point is that with Dreamweaver you need to be “somewhat familiar with web coding” and with Muse you don’t. Muse is not for you and yours who do know code. It’s for your idiot grandma.
That said, I don’t particularly care for the Adobe’s implications over updating one time pay software (ie that it can’t be done) or the rate they are charging. A third of that rate is more like it, half tops.
From what I have read the $180 price does NOT include hosting. Just the software.
Also there is Tumultco’s Hype http://www.tumultco.com/hype/ which is young but promising. at £20.99.
Just watch the video in FLASH. what an advert for their new html5 design web app.
Saying that it does look good. But there is no way I will be ‘Renting’ it.
If I could Buy it as in not rent, then it would have to be way cheaper.
Yes, she loves her camera which hasn’t even arrived. You need to work on your spambot skills.
I suppose it’s reasonable pricing, at about £100 a year. Even so, Adobe’s other products are highly overpriced. I hope BBC iPlayer and YouTube decide to make the move to HTML 5, because both apps are lacking in some features.
$180 is exorbitant, but that’s Adobe for you.
Probably, more like his left hand, which in many cultures used to be the hand you used to wipe your butt after defecating.
Though most scuff at iWeb for someone like myself it was a wonderful way for me, a none code writing person, to have a family blog and a good webstore base to sell my MINI Cooper products. It was super easy and I think a great way for me as a graphic designer not to have to go back to school and learn all that HTML crap.
I could build my files in Illustrator, save them as PNG files and I could design the website as I wanted it, graphically, not as some program dictated I had to do or some coding I had to learn. Yup it was so simple a child could build a website/blog in very little time. With all it’s lack good and bad…I love it!
Dismiss it if you want but I had fun with it as many others did and will be sad when it doesn’t work for most browsers anymore, until then I’m using it.
I don’t want my “idiot grandma” designing web pages – I want her to come to me for them. Further solidifies my dislike for this product and my anger at Adobe for capitalizing on people’s ignorance.
Flash isn’t dying, its going to have a new start with the upcoming powerful 3D APIs, also Flash isn’t all about the web, for instance Muse is actually developed with FLASH (AIR) that’s how powerful it is! adding that it can be used to develop mobile apps puts it in another high level way above HTML5 that it makes comparison between the two a joke.
And you don’t really have to host it on Adobe’s servers, you can just export it as HTML and upload it to any host, and Adobe won’t charge you, at least not for now.
And even if you have to pay 200$ yearly to use it or even more it will pay itself unless you’re a noob, I already got a project that would pay me enough to cover it for at least 5 years and its just a 3 day project with Muse (2-3 weeks normally)! and I didn’t have to pay a pinny!
Another hack Applite displaying his abject ignorance. Another fool being allowed to write about something he knows absolutely nothing about.
Just to be clear: MUSE IS WRITTEN IN FLASH.
Go on, doubt me.
Download the software, install it, and open up the “About Muse…” panel in the “Help” menu. Notice the “AIR Runtime” listed there. Then have a look at Adobe’s site and read a little about AIR — it’s a desktop extension runtime for Flash content. Read it again. Muse runs in AIR which is an extension for Flash. “Dying” Flash indeed!
Like most “technology” writers, Killian is a total hack wannabe. I sure hope no one paid him for his “insights”.
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Oh yeah, moving to HTML 5 will make them FULL of features!
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Ugh, seriously? They “see the writing on the wall”?
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And finally, EDUCATE YOURSELF: http://www.patrickbay.ca/blog/…
Facts exist. Find them. Use them to make cogent arguments, don’t just toe the Apple line.
Such blogs as this one shouldn’t exists.