For Website Owners
Silk provides website owners with a simple yet powerful interface that will have you creating and editing pages within minutes.
Tailored Design
Work with a web designer to create a professional, unique design, tailored to the individual needs of your organization. Each Silk website looks completely different, yet shares the same common 'engine' that lets you add content and dynamic features easily.
Optimized for Search Engines
Silk has been carefully designed with search engines in mind. It creates clean URLs which can be easily understood by search engines and allows for Meta Tags to be entered on a page-by-page basis.
Create Stunning Pages
Use the inbuilt Visual Editor to create great looking pages as easily as creating a Microsoft Word document. Insert tables of data, images and other media files in your pages with a few clicks and arrange them easily on the screen.
Online Help
Silk comes complete with integrated Online Help for all key sections - just click the Help button on the top right of the menu bar. Find out how to access the more advanced features inside Silk and go beyond basic page creation.
Update Anywhere
At the airport or over at a friends house? Update your website any time, anywhere. There's no software to install and no requirement to use a specific web browser. Just remember your password and you'll all set!
Invest for the Future
Silk provides an open-ended rapid development environment, allowing you to easily hire web professionals to build additional features and functionality to your exact specification. And, because Silk is based upon Ruby on Rails, you'll be able to enhance your website far faster than with older PHP or ASP systems.
Managed Service
Silk is provided as a managed service, expertly hosted by us at a Rackspace datacenter in the US or UK - home of website such as Nikon, Motorola and Bluetooth. We take care of backing up, upgrading and maintaining all the software so you can focus exclusively on creating great content.
Unified Support
We carefully manage every aspect of your website, so we can help you - no matter where the problem lies. Want to add another domain name to your website? Couldn't find what you were looking for in the Online Help? Need some advice about the Visual Editor? Just contact us and we'll be happy to help.
How does it work?
Silk does some very clever things, but there's no need to learn magic. Just buy a Silk website as you would a standard web hosting account and follow our Design Integration Guide. And remember, we're here to help if you need us.