Here's why Australians need to save the Tasmanian Devils from the brink of extinction
As part of my website, I am going to go make a video about Tasmanian devils at the Australian Reptile Park. Here is a list of things that I need to Ask in the video:
I connected WordPress to Stripe which is a payment collection service, and I have put Aussie Ark’s account number in Stripe. I am now using the GiveWP WordPress Plugin instead of Smart donations because Smart Donations was difficult to use. I am also using Stripe instead of Paypal because Paypal was also difficult to set up and use. Also, Stripe allowed me to directly send funds to Aussie Ark’s bank account as a one step process, which is better than Paypal because in Paypal Giving Fund, the money would only be sent once a month to Aussie Ark.I need to inform Aussie Ark that I am going to be depositing donations into their bank account directly.
In the future I might consider creating a Facebook page to help share information from the website. I don’t currently have a Facebook account so I don’t have any Facebook contacts.
I might set it up later after building the website because the website isn’t fully functional and it wouldn’t be right to show hundreds of people a website that doesn’t work properly.
Here is a sample my mentor gave me for me to learn how to shape my menus.
My account is on my family’s Office 365 email.
To add an email address for myself on the new domain, I need to request:
After this, all emails to my savethetasmaniandevils.com email address will go to my normal mailbox and any emails that I send will come from this new address.
UPDATE: I have requested this and it has been completed. I now have an email address for savethetasmaniandevils.com.
I need to make sure that all donations go to Aussie Ark.
However I also need to be able to track the donations that people make via my website. The problem is that I don’t have a bank account.
Since Aussie Ark is a charity, I have chosen to create a Stripe account which will deposit donations directly into Aussie Ark’s bank account.
This way, Aussie Ark will receive 100% of all of the money that people donate on my website, and I will be able to track how much in donations I was able to encourage people to make.
I have set up the GiveWP plugin on my website to receive donations. This manages things like donation history automatically and securely.
I started with a theme called Maywood but the layout wasn’t to my standards. Next, I tried ‘Twenty Nineteen’ but the font was hard to read, so I finally decided on Exford, where the font was readable and for my GAT diary, the featured picture was underneath the heading.
I wanted to change the notification settings for the blog so I went to the settings and I made it so that WordPress sends me an email as soon as someone subscribes to my blog and when someone re-blogs one of my posts.
I wanted to use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to make it easier for all of the stories to transfer onto my website. I found the RSS feed at http://www.aussieark.org.au/feed/.
I had to use the Business plan for WordPress to make it work. My grandmother donated the money for this. She had always been excited to be the very first person to make a donation.
Firstly I contacted Aussie Ark and Brodie who is the Fundraising and Administration Manager at Aussie Ark.
He was helpful and encouraged me. He replied back and said that I could keep up to date with all the progress that this foundation has made by looking at http://www.aussieark.org.au/news.
I have chosen to make a website to raise awareness about Tasmanian Devils as their numbers are going down and lots of people don’t know about them. I chose this topic because not many people know about Tasmanian Devils and I want to prove that they aren’t what their name describes them.
I already know that Tasmanian Devils are on the brink of extinction from the tumour disease (facial cancer). The Devils may die out if an effort to save them isn’t made. They are also vital to the native Tasmanian ecosystem. This is so because a dead animal for instance, a Tasmanian quoll, would take months to rot away on its own. however, a Tasmanian Devil would eat the carrion to the bone , making it less hungry and the environment less smelly!
Through this website, I hope to teach about the Tasmanian Devils and raise enough money to fund Tasmanian Devil breeding or rehabilitation programs.
