First coming into Adobe Muse with very little experience I thought it would be difficult. Difficult was an understatement. The amount of frustration caused by stupid little bugs and glitches was endless. One thing Adobe have always done well is their interfaces, any photoshop user can go into illustrator, indesign or after effects and things look similar. This is the same with muse, which is commendable, as it made the introduction a little easier. That being said things didn’t really improve from here on out. Being able to use third party widgets seems like an amazing thing, having the community create things that will make your life easier, on paper this sounds fantastic but in practice the more third party widgets the greater the chance of incompatibility, with pop ups reacting with the moving content widgets and the anchor scroll widget reacting with the youtube gallery widget it is a minefield of accidents waiting to happen, the worst thing is that something will work fine and two seconds later it won’t, with no logical explanation or error message. Things can look perfect in the edit window and once you have a live preview they look awful and theres near enough no way of telling why without simply undoing and retracing all your steps.
All of this being said Muse is a fantastic piece of software and for me, someone who knows next to nothing about web design, to be able to take on this sort of project and complete it to a standard that I’m happy with is amazing to me.