Capstone Business Credit, LLC is a New York City-based venture merchant banking firm that provides alternative financing to firms involved in the domestic and international trade of finished consumer and industrial products.

Capstone has been in business since 1993, and the existing website was launched in 2003. With the focus of the website changing, and the business growing Capstone needed to overhaul their website to reflect their new provides a number of service to their clients.

The needs were fairly straightforward

• Easy to update and maintain
• Easy to embed various media within any page
• Provide a Client Login with a protected client area
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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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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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