Spark longevity?

[Prof. Jenkins]

After teaching a portfolio web design course in our graphic design curriculum with Adobe Muse, I am now considering the 2 or 3 alternatives offered by Adobe. XD is out as I expect my designers to be able to follow through to completion with hosting of their sites ... sorry but some designers aren't going to have a team of developers readily available. Adobe Portfolio seems in the right direction, but is based on a handful of templates and I expect my majors to come up with their own designs. So finally, Adobe Spark. Just began looking into this. One example, although one page only, had links that opened up new pages (for different magazine issues). This starts to feel promising. Here's my question ...

As Adobe CC subscribers, can we feel assured that Spark won't soon disappear like Muse? We need something not as complex as Dreamweaver, but with the staying power of Photoshop. Plans?

[John T Smith]

This is a public forum with mostly other users

And even if an Adobe employee reads this, they are not going to be able to answer

Employees at the level of reading these forums do not make product decisions

[Prof. Jenkins]

Helpful response, but not for me. I would suggest Adobe employees at the product decision level need to be more involved. Or, my hope, and bet, is that employees at that level of their competition are reading this, e.g. Affinity.

[fenjas29325284]

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As Adobe CC subscribers, can we feel assured that Spark won't soon disappear like Muse? We need something not as complex as Dreamweaver, but with the staying power of Photoshop. Plans?

Nobody knows.

Staff member Preran participates in the discussions in the Muse forum - but to no effect and more clarity.

Fenja

[MelissaLA88]

As suggested above, none of us can answer this for sure. However, the university I work at had Adobe reps presenting Spark to students as recent as yesterday - so, I don't see it going anywhere any time soon.

[Prof. Jenkins]

Thanks, Melissa. Based on playing with the Spark Page app today, I will likely not use this in my classes. For me, the longevity question is now moot. (Muse was right on target for me.) Hopefully, this gap will be addressed by someone.

[The Itchy Peachy]

Hi there...

Even when myself never be a big fan of muse - i think many other good options were being created better outside of Adobe - i use every a while, and looks very promising, sad to hear it will be canceled by Adobe  like the good old Edge - which i use every a while, but again, was not a big fan  of that tool - i believe there is a need for a tool like that and even when the web right now is more inclined to the use of templates, on the interactive side, and even the creative web side there is an option when can use, and i use it for many related web needs... its Hype for Mac - sad that is a mac-only tool but for many years it save me from many hard jobs... as for the widgets things, you actually can integrate any technology you want in your hype websites by iframes - and if the javascript is your thing, comes with an API for that too... can be used to create webs, apps - i use it to create my books on my app, the freefallmotion book library - and in the many years i have been use it, i never found a technology that cant be integrated with Hype - as reference i create one email form in bootstrap, process it with PHP and works perfect inside the hype document, with help from a developer i create a touch-drag game.

If be creative is your thing, if you dont play well with templates, if you hate to see the web look all similar because of bootstrap - wich is false, i use bootstrap to create something very nice not so long ago.. is just related to your own creativity rather than the framework itself - this is the tool you must try.... if like to create something from scratch that is... also i find always very simple to use and had a better implementation to create responsive websites....

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[Dan Rodney]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Prof.+Jenkins  wrote

I expect my designers to be able to follow through to completion with hosting of their sites ... sorry but some designers aren't going to have a team of developers readily available.

As an instructor of web coding and web design... I'm sorry, but this is not reasonable. Web pages are coded. Professionally speaking, designers design and then coders code (or designers may code if they know how). How do you expect to make a website without coding? Muse did not create a well coded final product, so I was happy to see the project ended. Stop trying to force an unrealistic workflow and either teach them to code, pair them with developers that can code, or stop requiring them to produce something they cannot (and just have them focus on design). They could use premade sites, like WordPress... but then they are not really designing. Teaching Adobe XD is much more valuable if you're teaching someone to design for web.