Darren Hoyt Dot Com

Greetings I'm a designer, art director & strategist who blogs about client relations, trends, user experience, software, the media and more

If you watched Road Rules: Semester at Sea (you remember, when Veronica stole Pua's shirt), you'll remember that SAS is a global study program that takes place aboard a cruise ship...
Read More→

About Me

Since 1998, I've built websites of all scope and size for Category 4 where I currently serve as Art Director.

This site has been featured on Design Meltdown, Smashing Magazine, Mashable, CSS Mania and Best Web Gallery.

Get in touch if you'd like to chat or find me on these other sites.

Designing for the Empty-Handed Client

June 24, 2008 ( 18 )

I’m in the midst of a drafting a long post titled “Making the Most of Mediocre Content”. As you could guess, it’s about molding client-submitted materials into something more organized, focused and attractive. But what happens when a client has nothing to submit — no photos, no taglines, no logos, no text, no identity?

Popularity: 1% [?]

Read More→

Displaying Related Category and Author Content in Wordpress

June 11, 2008 ( 21 )

View any single-post page from Mimbo Pro and you’ll notice two sidebar modules called “More from this category” and “More from this author”. Learn why they’re valuable for keeping visitors on your site longer.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Read More→

The Rise of Visual Browsing

June 03, 2008 ( 6 )

This time last year at the annual TED conference, Microsoft Live Labs demoed an immersive media-browsing tool that literally caused gasps in the audience. Seadragon/Photosynth is exactly the kind of ‘3-D web’ experience people were hyping in the late 1990s, along with VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), as though they were poised to go mainstream.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Read More→
More Headlines