captured sparks

Hello. Hi. How are you? We design and build websites.

For those of you who are technically-minded, we create semantic, useable websites that look great. Our weapons of choice are HTML (of the 5 variety), CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails and Wordpress. For those of you who aren't, take a look at our work. We think you will like what you see.

If you'd like to work with us, get in touch.

Blog

Metrics

Written by Robin Fisher in 19 words

Feb

Inspired by Ryan Carson’s post on tracking campaign effectiveness, I’ve open-sourced the beginnings of a starter app called Metrics.

Favourtweets

Written by Robin Fisher in 41 words

Jun

Just a short note to publicise the launch of Favourtweets. This new service from captured sparks, allows you to tag and organise your favourite tweets.

No login is needed as it connects directly to Twitter. Let me know what you think.

Text shadow bug in Safari 4.0.5

Written by Robin Fisher in 48 words

Jun

It looks like Safari 4.0.5 has introduced a bug in its rendering of the text-shadow property. This image is from my site as rendered in Chrome (and also as rendered in Safari 4.0.4):

Chrome screenshot showing text shadow rendering

This image is now my site rendered in Safari 4.0.5:

Screenshot of text shadow rendering in Safari

Has anybody else come across this?

Stuff

My latest tweets

Advanced CSS3 styling creates stunning buttons to use in projects where you want to give people using modern browsers a little bit extra.