This is our company website, created in April 2005.
There are no records of the website from around 2000. The top page design shown above from around 2005 was not commissioned from a professional. I tried various design ideas, but I'm painfully aware that web design and architectural design are fundamentally different.
The above is the second half of the homepage, following on from what was
mentioned earlier. Looking at what the office looked like back then brings
back so many memories.
I wasn't particularly good at web design, so why didn't I hire a professional?
In a word, it was because I enjoyed creating the homepage.
2004:
The era of social networking services begins in Japan.
Mixi, Caesar Blog, and FC2 Blog launch their services.
2007:
YouTube and Nico Nico Douga launch their services.
2008:
Facebook and Twitter (now X) launch their services.
A turning point:
The situation began to change dramatically, from an era of expecting visitors to a homepage to an era of actively disseminating information to followers.
2011:
When I bought my first iPad, I was quite shocked to find that our company homepage didn't display correctly on it.
Since then, I've strongly realized that a homepage needs to be viewable on any device, including PCs, iPads, and iPhones.
New website creation software was designed to automatically display PC-optimized websites well on devices like iPhones, but we didn't use it.
2014:
Instagram launches its service.
In 2015,
2015:
Our company wasn't able to effectively utilize Facebook, and we still relied on website traffic as our primary sales tool.
I think our homepage was considerably more sophisticated than in 2005. However, because we were actually using website creation software released in 2000, it felt quite outdated, and our website traffic had already begun to decline significantly around this time.
The square icon used to access individual projects, which we still use today, appeared around this time. Our web design was, to put it nicely, original, but to put it less nicely, it deviated considerably from mainstream trends.
2025年
The design has largely taken its current form. The website now displays
the same layout on PCs, iPads, and iPhones. However, it has shifted from
being primarily a sales tool to serving as a portfolio and work record
for our architectural design firm.
2026年
2026:
As website translation features have become commonplace, we also tried translating our website into English using an app. However, the significant difference in character count between Japanese and English caused the screen layout to break.
Therefore, we created our own English version of the website. This will
likely be our last website update.
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