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 “œgo-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:Â 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.Â

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 RoadBelvedere, CAÂ 94920p: (415) 563-3844info@gemcapital.com

One of the issues which comes up fairly often has to do with the sending of mail through our servers and problems that people have with various ISPs (Internet Service Providers).

When setting up your mail accounts, you can use the SMTP (outgoing mail) servers which we provide with your account, these servers will take the form of “mail.example.com” example.com being the domain name at which your website resides. In some cases setting popular ISPs try to combat spam by restricting access to any SMTP server which they do not control.

This means that in many cases you will not be able to use our mail servers, but you have to point your SMTP server to the address provided by your ISP.

If you can”t access the SMTP server that we have provided you with, please check this list to see if your ISP is listed, or contact your ISP and ask them what SMTP server you should use.

… are emails from satisfied customers.

I”ve just updated our Hedge Fund Website testimonials page with comments from some of the recent projects that we”ve completed.

It was great working with Neal Goyal on the website for his hedge fund Blue Horizon Asset Management. We are in the final phases of rolling out the most recent project we”ve been working together on.

Roberts Capital was an interesting project in that it differed from many of the other projects that we completed.

Austin Roberts was very clear about his vision for the website, and speaking for the entire Hedge Fund Website team I can say that it was a pleasure working with him, and we wish him and his firm the best in the coming year.

We will keep our Testimonial page updated with client comments as they come in.

I will be speaking at the upcoming PHP|tek conference which will be taking place in Chicago on the 16th-18th of May.

I will be presenting two talks. The first talk will be on Search Engine Optimisation and Website Accessiblity. In this talk we will be examining several websites through the eyes of a search engine and a screen reader.

The second talk will be an extension of the talk I gave at ZendCon on Upgrading to PHP5 with Style. This presentations skips some of the extremely technical aspects of PHP5 and focuses on the new aspects and features available in PHP5. Both of my talks will be based on experience and knowledge gained while working with the HedgeCo Hedge Fund Website team.
This will be my first PHP|Architect conference, and I”m looking forward to meeting up with some of the other distinguished speakers who will be presenting as well.

A friend of mine was considering starting a blog and was in the market for a blogging platform. He has a fairly popular podcast and and is affiliated Podshow Inc. so one of the obvious options was to use the new blogging platform which is provided as Podshow’’s Podshow PLUS platform.

Since we do work with optimizing the websites we create here at HedgeCo Hedge Fund Website Creation, he asked me to take a look at the blogging platform and see how it would preform against a platform like Blogger or a stand-alone application like Wordpress (which is the blogging engine that we use here at the HedgeCo Websites blog).
For this review, we will use Molly Hamacher, a character from Shadow Falls who has a fairly active blog as an example. I will mention “Google” a lot, this is only because this is the most popular search engine, my recommendations apply to all search engines however it is commonly accepted that if you optimizes for “Google” then the optimisations apply to other search engines as well.

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