: Questions about editing a site created in Adobe Muse by someone else A client came to me with an existing site created in Adobe Muse by another developer. They had exported the site to HTML
A client came to me with an existing site created in Adobe Muse by another developer. They had exported the site to HTML so I could post the files to the client's new hosting account. Now the client has a bunch of changes and I'm stuck with the unenviable task of editing the atrocious code Muse puked out.
I have a Creative Cloud account but have never used Muse as I code my own sites but I'm finding it unbelievably tedious to make site-wide changes to this inherited Muse site.
Every single element in the pages appears to have unique IDs. Removing any of them seems to break the site. Each page has its own stylesheet, in addition to a global stylesheet, most of which have styles for a long list of the unique IDs. This makes it frustratingly time-consuming and difficult to made site-wide changes, especially because all of this is then repeated in the 'phone' directory that duplicates everything for mobile devices.
The site is composed of HTML files. There are no includes for headers, footers, etc. so every single page must be updated with new contact info, header graphics, logos, etc.
Does anyone have any tips or recommendations for making this process easier? Can the site be made 'un-Muse-y'? Is there a convenient way to convert the unique sequential IDs to more semantic, global classes? Should I install Muse and import the site, if that's even possible? Or should I recommend the client consider hiring me to redesign the site in a non-fussy format that's easier for me and for them to update?
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Oh Muse why do you do these things?
See this:
Muse is not intended to be a code generation hand-off tool for
downstream editing. We recommend you do all of your site editing in
Muse, rather than exporting the site from Muse and editing the code
elsewhere. By staying within Muse, you can continue to use the full
functionality of Muse to update your site. As soon as you move to
altering the output of Muse, there's no going back (unless you're
willing to re-make your changes each time you export from Muse). The
HTML code output from Muse is not optimized for manual editing.
You may have but one chance and that is
Choose Object > Insert HTML. In the window that appears, select the
default placeholder text and Press Delete (Mac) or Backspace (Windows)
to remove it. Choose Edit > Paste to paste the HTML code into the
HTML Code field. Click OK to close the HTML Code window.
For detailed Instruction you can follow the article here.
Update: That being said, I would simply explain the situation to the client and inform them that the person used a framework that is not intended to be used by other developers and no matter if they use you or anyone else, that they will have a serious obstacle for any and all changes and that a redesign in a more friendly framework should be considered. I would also worry that any functionality lost would look like you are to blame.
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