Site's History

2017

Complete remastering of the web site. Responsive design. CakePHP 3 framework. Unpopular sections are removed. New sections:

Type in Japanese
Question/Answers
Games
Shop

New graphic charter: » See the home page.

Creation of Kazoku, an educational card game to learn Japanese characters.

This year, the web site receives 723.129 visitors who viewed 2.694.971 pages.

2016

This year, the web site receives 266.260 visitors who viewed 1.346.336 pages.

2015

This year, the web site receives 196.713 visitors who viewed 1.026.800 pages.

2014

This year, the web site receives 215.274 visitors who viewed 1.323.868 pages.

2013

This year, the web site receives 116.918 visitors who viewed 594.136 pages.

2012

This year, the web site receives 155.007 visitors who viewed 918.803 pages.

2011

This year, the web site receives 153.203 visitors who viewed 955.739 pages.

2010

This year, the web site receives 131.516 visitors who viewed 1.055.172 pages.

2009

Light modification of the home page. It is now possible to search for a name from the home page. » See the home page.

New section: Artwork gallery

This year, the web site receives 137.168 visitors who viewed 1.431.254 pages.

2008

New DNS: furankofon.com. Le idea is to add to web site a section meant for Japanese people.

New graphic charter: » See the home page.

New sections are added and existing sections are enhanced, especially:

Display of compound first names
Display of first names lists
Educational on-line games
Tattoo gallery
The "Donate" section is removed because it is absolutely useless.

This year, the web site receives 147.946 visitors who viewed 1.900.646 pages.

2007

Achat des adresses : japanophone.net et japanophone.org avec redirection invisible vers japanophone.com.

This year, the web site receives 145.115 visitors who viewed 1.744.180 pages.

2006

This year, the web site receives 188.627 visitors who viewed 1.376.268 pages.

2005

This year, the web site receives 110.765 visitors who viewed 110.765 pages.

2004

This year, the web site receives 61.431 visitors who viewed 582.683 pages.

2003

Graphics being too heavy for the modem connections at this time, the design of the web site is entirely revised so that it becomes much lighter.
New graphic charter: » See the home page.

New DNS: japanophone.com. The web site is hosted by www.ovh.com.

The web site recoded using php and MySql.

This year, the web site receives 16.744 visitors who viewed 107.102 pages.

2002

The web site receives 140 requests to add a new first name.

2001

Creation of the website in May 2001 on a free host server with:

1000 French first names
1000 German first names
600 English first names

The whole web site is coded in html and javascript and consists in 8 pages. » See the home page.

The web site receives 8 requests to add a new first name.