Step 1: Discover & Define
The discovery process involves learning everything about a project before starting: an analysis of the company, industry, and audience. This process is generally accomplished with a few days of informal online research, analyzing market trends and customer demographics. Whatever approach is used, discovery entails a process of information-gathering and research that allows a team to familiarize themselves with the project at hand from a fresh perspective.

Once the industry and the audience have been analyzed - now it is time to determine the overall goals and objectives. Having a clear definition of the overall scope, budget and timing of the project before starting is crucial to a project's success. Focusing on the user and the user's needs is key to creating a site which is usable, clearly focused, and will enable the development and launch of a successful site within scope and on schedule.

Step 2: Structure Design & Prototype
Examining the content and organization of a site is the first step to creating an effective user experience. It is about blueprinting the site from a functional and organizational perspective to facilitate communication.

Ultimately, understanding what users are looking for and allowing easy access to content and information is the goal. In this phase, structuring content and information is outlined from three perspectives: site view, screen view, and user view.

The visual design phase is known as "the fun part." The designers are finally able to stretch their creative wings to brainstorm, conceptualize and produce a look and feel based on the completed upfront work.

Step 3: Functionality & Interactivity
You require a solution that fits your business needs rather than being forced to fit a solution.
A set of customizable applications created by Seven Point can be tailored to meet your specific requirements.

Step 4: Build & Test
Now the pieces come together and the actual site is compiled and created. This step is divided into three parts: pre-production or setting up the elements and the environment; Building the HTML and code; and, throughout it all, testing and quality control.

Seven Point will ask for a list of changes that you wish and implement them. Once the client approves everything the website production is done.

Step 5: Launch & Maintain
The final phase is about the factors in launching the site. What is needed before, during and after the site goes live. It is also about picking up the loose ends before moving into the next phases of development.

Step 6: Fast, Powerful Reliable Hosting
Seven Point provides a fast, secure and resilient managed hosting service to ensure high system availability and allow you to conduct your business with confidence.

We utilize three high performance T3s (equivalent to 135 mbs/s) enabling us to cater for our client's preferred bandwidth requirements and provide them with a hosting solution tailored to their needs.

Step 7: Promotion & Marketing
Having attracted people to your site it is important to find out more about these potential customers. Not only can we provide Site Intelligence, with statistical analysis of site traffic, but also devise initiatives for people to tell you more about themselves. This database of information then becomes invaluable for targeting specific markets, increasing penetration and providing real return on investment. Managed online marketing campaigns can achieve high returns for a significantly low investment.