Welcome to the beta version of the Blumenfeld family web site.

This web site is dedicated to the descendants of the nine children of Arye and Leah Blumenfeld: Moshe Blumenfeld, Benyamin Blumenfeld, Tillie Klimentovsky, Berel Blumenfeld, Julius Blumenfeld, Clara Haimovitz, Marie Albert, Solomon Blumenfeld, and Jacob Blumenfeld.

It has taken me a while to get something going partly because of procrastination and partly because I've been searching for a system to use to publish the site.

From the time I first started hosting the Blumenfeld.org domain and talking with Harry about developing the web site, I wanted to create a web site that achieved a few things. First I wanted a system that would allow each member the ability to publish their own information on their family. Second the site needed to be secure so that only members could access the information to protect family members. Finally the system had to be something that I could implement quickly and easily with my limited programming knowledge.

After doing some research, I discovered an open source web publishing system called Plone. Plone is a rich and flexible content management system that makes it very easy for users with no web experience to create web pages and sites. No special web programming applications are needed and users can create and edit pages all from the web browser. It's ideal for any organization that needs to publish information easily and quickly. Creating user accounts, giving people permissions, and updating content is all accomplished using a standard web browser.

I’m currently learning about the Plone system and setting the site up on my home server. We are slowly adding information and figuring out the best way to present it. I think we are pretty much there, thus this "beta" release. 

Please feel free to email me with any question you might have.

Bob Albert.
Great Grandson of Marie Albert

For more information:

Plone website
Zope community
CMF website