“kakoii” is obviously a japanese word that means something like “cool”, or “to the point”.  It is also the name of a small but fine graphics design & consulting agency in Berlin and, as I am their resident freelancer, today we launched a new version of their web site.

Naturally they did their own design; CMS is Wordpress with a number of plugins (XHTML Video embed , the fantastic More Fields plugin ,  All in One SEO and XML Sitemap, and yes, I regularly do donate a bit to plugin authors).

The javascript frame work used for a few simple but nice effects is mootools. We had planned for much more features, but at some point is seemed wiser to go online with what is already finished and add the missing bits over the time to come.

I’m very happy with this site – I think the design looks great, and the project offered an interesting variety of frontend and backend tasks. There’re still some bits of fine-tuning to do  tonight (and probably won’t work on the more exotic browsers; please excuse that I won’t bother with Kazoo 0.2 on Slackware for Atari or something like that)  but all in all it’s a job well done, even if I say so myself.