Adobe Muse vs Dreamweaver

Over the last few years, there has been an increase in digital marketing rather than traditional marketing and because of this each and every organization wants to have a digital presence. Digital presence can be achieved by shifting to digital platforms like building a company’s website, blog etc. As we know that website building is a complex task so to ease this task different organizations came forward to provide web development platforms which allows to create and host websites and web applications easily without even learning programming languages. A large number of such platforms are available and two of them are Adobe muse and Adobe Dreamweaver so we will compare these to choose the best one.

Adobe Muse can be defined as a website builder which was used to create adaptive websites offline. It was developed by Adobe Incorporation. Its stable release was in 2018. It was used by naive users who do not have any coding experience to build static pages with the help of drag and drop functionality. It was available in 19 languages. It is a paid software and a subscription is mandatory.

Advantages of Adobe Muse

• It has a simple interface which is easy to use by novice users.
• It comes with drag and drop functionality which makes website designing easy and fast.
• It has a large number of third party extensions which can be used directly to get more features like maps, charts etc.
• It also allows to modify/edit CSS code according to the user’s need.
• It supports most of the platforms like Desktop, Android, iOS, Web-based etc.

Disadvantages of Adobe Muse

• It does not provide ready to use themes.
• It is not good for large and complex projects.
• It has a smaller user base means it is not much popular.

Adobe Dreamweaver is a website designing computer software which is used as a web development tool. It was built by Macromedia in 1977 and Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005 so currently, it is under Adobe incorporation. It supports Windows and Mac operating systems. It helps the users in building and managing websites without learning HTML. Initially, it was released in 1997 and its stable version was launched in 2021.

Advantages of Adobe Dreamweaver

• It allows suggestions while writing codes to ease the programmers.
• It allows users to see the instant result of code without switching screens.
• It has an automatic code checking feature which highlights the errors.
• It is available offline so no internet connection is required.
• It provides ready to use themes.

Disadvantages of Adobe Dreamweaver

• It requires high RAM to run smoothly.
• It is a very complex system and is difficult to learn.
• It is expensive as compared to other platforms.

Following is a table of differences between Adobe Muse and Adobe Dreamweaver:

	Adobe Muse	Adobe Dreamweaver
1.	It can be understood as a web designing tool which allows the users to create websites without learning coding.	It can be understood as a website builder that allows building responsive websites involving extensive coding.
2.	It does not provide any free template.	It provides some basic templates for free.
3.	No trial is available for users so a subscription is mandatory.	It is available for trial for a limited time period.
4.	It cannot build complex server applications.	It allows building complex applications along with simple ones.
5.	It is available for $14.99 per month.	It is available for $20.99 per month.
6.	It is popular among graphic designers as its main purpose is designing.	It is popular among web developers as it allows developing websites and web applications.
7.	It only has a visual design interface.	It comes with a visual design interface along with a code editor interface.
8.	It was written in Flash, Flex and AIR languages.	It was written in C++ programming language.