Welcome to HedgeCo Website Creation

Tuttle Asset Management is a Registered Investment Advisor firm that works with multiple companies to market its products.

Prior to working with HedgeCo Website Creations, the existing website was a static html site which was updated with PDF files of the various products. There were several issues other than the website design that needed to be addressed in the relaunch.

1. Easy updating of content (no more HTML editing)

2. Ability to create textual versions of various products and display them alongside the PDF version

3. Flexibility to add new sections, products, and articles.

Because the scope of the project was substantially different than what we deliver with our Hedge Fund website platform, we chose ezPublish as the Content Management System on top of which we could build the Tuttle Asset Management site.

The HedgeCo Hedge Fund Website team has experience with a variety of different Content Management System platforms.

1. Commercial Support: eZpublish has a large support team and will support the platform.

2. Solid Upgrade Path: eZsystems has a solid upgrade path for the eZpublish platform and this includes an exciting next-generation platform which is based on the upcoming PHP6.

3. Flexibility in design: The HedgeCo Hedge Fund Website team prides itself in the ability to create designs that fit exactly to what our clients needs are. eZpublish does not place any restrictions on our ability to do this. The eZpublish platform also provides the programming tools that our programmers need in creating any customizations

4. Personal Experience: In the summer of 2006 I was able to attend the eZpublish Conference in Skein, Norway. During this time I was able to fully evaluate the product as well as interact with the core developers and management team.

Specifications

Following are some of the unique aspects of the Tuttle Asset Management website:

1. Dynamic graphical page headers

2. Flexible Category and Page creation

3. PayPal integration to sell specific products from the website

4. Integration with Google Maps

5. Technical glossary section with terms grouped in alphabetical order

6. Integration with external CRM solution

7. RSS Output

Design Phase

Once the project specification was laid out, we moved into the design phase. Surej was the contact during this phase and worked

Issues

During the deployment phase there were some issues which we faced that pushed back the schedule for the launch date of the site. These issues involved some sections of the specification which had not been given enough attention prior to the implementation phase. There were also issues where eZpublish provided features which were not needed by the website editing team at Tuttle Asset Management, and changes were made to ensure that the appropriate functionality was presented in a way that it would be of most use to the website team.

Initially in the deployment we planned to create highly customized templates for each of the products which were featured on the website, however after the initial round of revisions we settled on two distinct product templates. While customized templates offered a much greater amount of flexibility on our part, it made it difficult for the Tuttle Asset Management team to create new products, as we would need to provide the original designs. Having two templates gave the flexibility that was needed.

Deployment

One of the challenges faced by the deployment of the Tuttle Asset Management site involved the entry of historical data into the new website system. With over 200 specific articles in the “Morning Cup of Jo” section the converting them to a textual format is not a simple task. For the initial website launch the team focused on a few recent articles, and we will be adding documents for the site retroactively for historical purposes.

Finally I would like to thank Greg Collins and the other folks who patiently worked with us over both the design and website implementation cycles. This was a big project, and we’re happy with the results.

I received this press-release in my inbox today. I’m very happy to have worked with Keith and Talia and wish them the best with their new website.

GEM Capital is pleased to announce the launch of its new website – www.gemcapital.com.

Designed to be a “go-to” place to learn about strategies offering tax-efficient investing, www.gemcapital.com contains information on the following:

• Tax Efficient Investing: Objective evaluations of alternative investment opportunities offering tax-free income
• Investment Solutions: Information on services offered by GEM Capital
• Relevant News and Events:  Listing of industry events and news articles

Membership is free, and required to access sections of the site that offer detailed information on municipal bond arbitrage, traditional high-quality municipal bonds, high-yield municipal bonds as well as specific information pertaining to services offered by GEM Capital. 

Our aim is to provide education and investment solutions to individuals interested in tax-efficient investing. The first two sections of this website, “About GEM Capital” and “Tax Efficient Investing” contain general information on tax efficient investing, and encompass all that GEM offers. The remaining sections of the site provide information specific to one investment solution — municipal bond arbitrage.

Please contact GEM with any questions or for additional information.

Sincerely,

The GEM Capital Team

GEM Capital, LLC

83 Beach Road
Belvedere, CA  94920
p: (415) 563-3844
info@gemcapital.com

We’ve been here for a while now (check out the hedge fund web design portfolio for some of the evidence) but yesterday we did our official lauch, and a quick look at our stats shows a nice spike in our hits!

Thanks to the initial press release we’ve already had a flood of interest in our product. I’ll try to keep the blog updated with the release annoucements, but at any given time we have between eight and ten sites in the pipeline. With an average of 2-3 site launches a week, I have a fair amount of real work to take care of and blogging may suffer.

While I’m here, I’ll put out a call for designers. We are in the market to hire a full time designer to work in our West Palm Beach office. Please contact jobs@hedgecowebsites.com for more information.

David W. Tice & Associate, LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor firm which specializes in Prudent Bear mutual funds as well as other privately offered hedge funds. The company website, prudentbear.com is well establish in its field, but with the introduction of five new hedge funds, the site needed to be extended in order to comply with the regulatory restrictions involved with Hedge Fund websites.

Before our work began, we had a components for multiple funds into one framework. However, due to the unique aspects of this scenario (discussed later) we had to implement a unique solution.

There were several unique aspects to this project:

• Five Hedge Funds to manage
• Two Offshore funds, three onshore.
• Two funds available for Qualified Clients (3c7 Investors) and three funds for Accredited Investors (3c1 investors)

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To help handle the growing needs of the HedgeCo Website support team we have implemented a ticket system which we will be using from now on to coordinate our support efforts. After evaluating our needs we selected excellent theSupportSuite product from Kayako systems, using this excellent product will enable us to handle your needs faster and more efficiently than before and will expand with our quickly growing needs.

While this new system brings a lot of power to the HedgeCo Website support team, as a client the system is very easy to use, in fact you can use it directly from your email client.

The following steps take you through the process of creating a “ticket” and using our new support system
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This is a short annoucement to welcome Aaron Connelly to the HedgeCo Hedge Fund Websites team.

AaronC (founder of ACJavascripts.com and Cytech-Services.com) has been working with us for the past few months providing his expert services to help with the influx of work which we have had. However, due to the increased in business preceeding the official launch of HedgeCoWebsites.com we are taking him on full time. AaronC will be working in our deployment and support department, and will be working with our clients in the final phases of deploying their Hedge Fund websites.

We look forward to working with AaronC, and if we’re lucky we might even convince him to drop in here to blog every now and then!
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