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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One of the support questions that the HedgeCo Website team gets is how they can resize their images for use on the web. Most commonly this is seen when trying to cut an an image to the correct dimensions for a useable headshot.

This entry will give you some simple steps how you can do this with freely available tools.
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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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EzSystems released the first release candiate for the 3.9 series of their award winning content management system. This release features a wealth of valuable features, many of which were requested and implemented by the eZpublish community.

Also included is a fantastic new default theme (shown on the right), and a nice standard website package which is available during the installation which makes setting up a simple site using eZpublish that much simpler.

The HedgeCo Website creation team is currently in the final stages of rolling out two websites using the eZpublish 3.8 series. These websites will be launched in this month, so be sure to check back here so you don”t miss the launch party!

We are evaluating this new release, and hope to integrate the new features into our products so that our clients can benefit from what looks like a great new release from the eZpublish team. Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!

This is a short announcement 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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