Acknowledgements

Many thanks to all those who made this project possible.

The Club

The California Turtle & Tortoise Club (CTTC): Thank you for all that you do and have done for turtles and tortoises since 1964. Many thanks, too, for your website, chock full of turtle and tortoise information so that members of the public can learn more about turtles and tortoises in the wild and the best way to care for their own species of turtle or tortoise in captivity. Finally, many thanks for your Adoption Program, so that, over the years, hundreds of abandoned or unwanted turtles and tortoises have found new homes.
The CTTC Valley Chapter: Thank you For taking in and re-homing not only the many healthy rescues but also the sick and injured ones. Thanks for all the time and money spent on rehabilitating them so that they can have a second lease on life. Thank you also for letting me use so many of your photos so that this project is so rich in content.
Karen Berry: Treasurer & Adoption Chair of the Valley Chapter: Thank you for helping me out when my mom got cancer and I had to babysit her tortoise even though I didn't know the first thing about tortoises. Thank you, too, for enthusiastically embracing this campaign of mine, for writing up the stories of so many of your sick and injured tortoises and for letting me use so many of the chapter's photos on this website.

The Project

Ian Brown: Author of the Albert the Tortoise children's picture-book series published by Graffeg for not just taking the Sofa Cushion Challenge in the normal way but for challenging all his fans to take the challenge after him. Additionally, thank you for making Albert the Tortoise a Sofa Cushion Challenge Ambassador.

The Video

❤❤ Very Relaxing 3 Hour Video of Small Waterfall: Filmed at Alsea Falls, Oregon in 2010. Published on YouTube, Sept. 20, 2012 by MoneySavingVideos. Used via Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Thanks for sending me the clip when I couldn't download!
The CTTC Valley Chapter: provided most of the tortoise photos in the video.
The Wikimedia Commons: Thanks for providing a source for Public Domain and Creative Commons images, some of which were used in this video, specifically:

2005 US cent, obverse side. Author: United States Mint. Public Domain.

People Holding Positive Emoticons: Copyright © by Jira. Used via Premium License from RawPixel.com.
Some of the video and still images are by Carrie Hernandez.
Some images are from "Holy Cow! 250,000 Graphics", by Macmillan Digital Publishing, USA.
Jamendo.com: provided the royalty free music licenses and also the following recordings used in this project:

Windows Movie Maker: This was the software that I used for most of the editing. The version I used was the one that came bundled with the operating system on my Windows Vista computer. (Dear Microsoft, "Windows Movie Maker" is the only thing I still use that computer for. I wish you still offered the Vista version of Movie Maker as a download!)
Flashback Pro: This was the software that I used for the screencast recording and some of the editing of that segment. I used the free "express" version for many years before graduating to the pro version but am still grateful to Blueberry for the years of use I got from their free software.
Audacity: the free, open-source, cross-platform audio software was what I used for most of the sound recording and music editing. It's amazing to me that this high-quality software is free. Many thanks to the Audacity team!

The Website

w3schools.com: Thank you for your free web design classes that brought me up to speed and the use of your W3.css style sheet. Additionally, although I've modified it quite substantially on some pages, your Parallax Template was what I used as a basis for this entire site's design. Thank you for that as well.
Google Fonts: Thank you for your free fonts, particularly Berkshire Swash and Lato which are the two used on this website.
FontAwesome.com: A totally awesome icon set and toolkit. This website is using the Free Version (Thank you!) but there's also a Standard (Pay) Version with additional icons and perks.
The CTTC Valley Chapter: Thanks for most of the tortoise photos on the website.
Karen Berry: Treasurer and Adoption Chair of the The CTTC Valley Chapter: Thanks for sending me so many of the chapter's tortoise photos for this project and also for taking all the time to write up the stories of many of the chapter's sick and injured.
The Galapagos National Park Directorate (see English Translation) not just for permission to use some of the park's audio visual materials on this website but also for actually sending a selection of images and video that could be used here.
The Wikimedia Commons: Thanks for providing a source for Public Domain and Creative Commons images, some of which were used on the website. Thank you, too, to all those individuals who chose to assign a creative commons license to their work. There are many images on this website that could be used only because their creators assigned to them a creative commons license.
Some of the videos and photos on this website are by Carrie Hernandez, as well as some of the design elements.
Fictional 3D image of rectangular black sofa with matching cushions and potted broad leaf plant floating in the air. Copyright © by PlusONE. Used via Standard License from ShutterStock.com.
How To Use Structural Pseudo Classes and Pseudo Element Selectors, article by Steven Bradley of Vanseo Design. Thanks for the code on the proper CSS styling of a drop cap.
stackoverflow. Thanks for answering the question How do I hide an element when printing a web page?
Responsive Iframes with One Great CSS Trick, article by Gregory Gan of Theodo. Thanks for the CSS code to make YouTube iFrames responsive.
Many thanks to Kevin J.T. Creamer at the University of Richmond, Virginia for providing Javascript that makes possible the Current Date Display.
Many thanks to Christopher Heng of The Site Wizard for providing the Javascript for Making a Web Page Always Display the Current Year.
Adding favicons in a multi-browser multi-platform world, article by Ruadhán O'Donoghue of mobiForge. Thanks for helping me get the favicon situation sorted out.
Many thanks to XML-Sitemaps.com for providing a "free and simple" on-line generator that makes it possible for little, small-budget websites like the Sofa Cushion Challenge to create and update the sitemap.xml file. Thank you for giving the little guy an opportunity to maintain search engine optimization (SEO) the same as the giants.

The Fundraiser

Thank you to the following for providing the fundraising platforms for this project.

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