Are you an expat seeking Tokyo Yokahama information? Then Tokyo Yokohama Information Source is for you.

When I lived in England and Germany back in the mid 1990s, I would have loved to have run a one stop shop information source community site for expats like this site. I had the desire to do this but not the tools because the web was in its infancy.

Tokyo Yokohama Information Source (a Bryght Light Drupal 5 site) illustrates the progress we have made with our web tools. Tokyo Yokohama Information Source is a "one stop" shop source of Tokyo Yokohama Information that was quickly designed and implemented using Drupal and the Bryght Basic Install profile by one person with one person creating content. This would have taken several people and much more time back in the 90s.

This site shows you how far and how quickly you can take the default Garland theme and make it your own. Bryght reseller Kelina Kwan has added a beautiful logo and changed the colors and she's picking up on cool Drupal features like Views (e.g. see the event listing) and figuring out how to use CCK and Views in a future iteration of the site. Kelina's a self described Drupal novice but her previous HTML, CSS, flash, and audio experience have accelerated her learning.

Just as important, Kelina's taught her client Mayuri Odedra-Straub how to add content. And it turns out she is a natural at creating compelling content constantly. Her blog is proof positive!

The site is working and gaining "social mass" as an online community as you can see by the content and comments.

It's quickly converging to the goal of being a site full of informative links for expats as well as a community site and blog.

We are really looking forward to watching Tokyo Yokohama Information Source evolve and mature further (it's only about 2 months old) as an online community site and an expat information base.