Yen Family Site

I hope everyone enjoys this site.  I created it so that everyone can share family news, events, photos, recipes and more. 

Some time ago, I started posting photos to another site.  I also had a blog site and several other sites- all with related information.  I had thought about creating a family site but didn't have the time to do a lot of custom programming and didn't know of any tools that would provide enough features to be able to tie all these items together.  I gave up on the idea for a while.

One day much later, I sent a link for my photo site to Sue May and she suggested I create a way to share recipes.  I knew there had to be a system that could drive all the features I wanted and started thinking about it again.

I came across the engine that drives this site while doing some research into online content management systems (CMS) for an internal web site project at work.  The engine is called Drupal and was created in 2000 by some students at the University of Antwerp in Belgium to so they could share things between their dorms.  It has turned into a very sophisticated system with the help of the open source programming community.

I will continue to add features and am looking to everyone to make suggestions for how to improve the site to make it a central place for family information.