Hosted Microsoft Silverlight
Perceptive Online, the host of choice for web designers and developers, are pleased to announce that the Microsoft Silverlight technology is available on their hosting plans. Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser technology that makes it possible to deliver next generation .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.
Web Site technology has come a long way since a business Web Site was little more than an electronic business card. With the ready availability of video and highly detailed graphics, Web Sites need a much greater range of accessibility options to retain the customers interest.
The appeal of Silverlight is that it provides a powerful platform that makes it easy to develop Web applications with professional-quality graphics, audio, and video for an engaging user experience. The media player in Silverlight is a control like any other Silverlight control which means it can work with all of Silverlight’s rich internet application ‘RIA’ features and be included multiple times in a single application to support features like picture-in-picture.
Since its launch in October of 2008 Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 300 million consumer PCs worldwide and Microsoft’s numbers suggest that there are between 400,000 and 500,000 developers and designers currently using the technology.
With Perceptive Online hosting your Silverlight Website, you are guaranteed a personal service and a technical support team that is there to help with any queries; no automated machines. Various hosting packages are available, from space on a shared, managed, performance server through to dedicated servers. Perceptive will put together a package that will meet your requirements rather than selling off the page!
Contact us to discuss how to take immediate advantage of this service.
Microsoft announced the beta of Silverlight 3 at MIX 09 in Las Vegas on the 18th of March 2009 (http://visitmix.com/), sparking considerable interest from developers and designers. Further updates will follow shortly.
Visit the Silverlight Showcase where there are almost 450 applications from more than 50 countries in the gallery.
You can visit Seton Design Ltd, a company already utilising the benefits of Silverlight technology.