Credits

This website is a collaborative effort, made possible by the contributions of talented individuals and agencies. Learn more below.

Project Lead

The Project lead and the driver behind the Yea Wetlands website is Julie Blyth.

Website Design and Development

Website design and development was carried out by Caolan O'Connor at Regional Business Toolkit, a Victorian agency dedicated to helping purpose-driven businesses and organisations in regional areas scale their impact.

For more information visit: www.regionalbusinesstoolkit.com.au

Website Copy

All website copy was provided by Julie Blyth and the Yea Wetlands team.

Images, Video, and media

The majority of the images on this website were supplied Julie Blyth and the Yea Wetlands team.

Daabani Biik Butganani Yanath is a self guided immersive audio tour that credits the following:

  • Welcome to Country, Taungurung knowledge, wetlands information and history researched, written and compiled by Aunty Angela ten Buuren.
  • Taungurung language provided by Aunty Angela ten Buuren and Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) Yingath Songwoman Isobel Morphy-Walsh.
  • Songs written and performed by Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) Yingath Songwoman Isobel Morphy-Walsh.
  • Sculpture statements and voiceovers by Taungurung artist Sammy Trist.
  • Additional musical compositions, narration, sound design and production by The Orbweavers (Marita Dyson & Stuart Flanagan).
  • Voiceovers and songs recorded at Head Gap Studios by Finn Keane and Rohan Sforcina.

Website Stack

A range of open source and premium software was used to develop this website, including:

  • Beaver Builder / Beaver Themer / Powerpack - to allow the Yea Wetlands team to easily edit the content on the website.
  • Gravity Forms - to handle all online forms and submissions.
  • Pods - to handle the custom post types
  • Pagebuilder Framework - to provide the underlying framework that the theme is build around.
  • WordPress - the open source platform that powers the web.
  • Shortpixel - to optimise (reduce) images so they load fast.
  • WPRocket - to boost the site loading time, improve the PageSpeed performance score, and optimise the Core Web Vitals.