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...
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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.

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Europe, Day II

September 11, 2006 ( 0 )

Monday morning we weren’t so discombobulated we didn’t get right out of bed and plunge right into the heart of the tourist district. First the Eiffel Tower (an American at the very top spoke into his cellphone to whoever: “I can’t believe it’s September 11th and I’m at the top of the Eiffel Tower!”), then [...]

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Europe, Day I

September 10, 2006 ( 0 )

Saturday afternoon, Wistar and I drove to Dulles without incident, but once we’d schlepped onto the transit bus and huffed into the terminal, we were told at the ticket counter: “Glad you arrived so early, I should have a better chance of squeezing you in”. Nice of them to consider squeezing us in despite our [...]

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Sweet Titles, with Options, All in One File

April 30, 2006 ( 1 )

For anyone interested, I’ve taken Dustin Diaz’s handy Sweet Titles script, condensed all the relevant code into one document and tweaked it so that only anchor tags with the “title” attribute will display a rollover while the others display as normal. Feel free to grab it here.
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30boxes Explained in Video

April 22, 2006 ( 0 )

Chris from AllThatsCool reviews 30boxes.com via video tutorial on YouTube. Calendaring is pretty well tread-upon as a web service at this point, but the options and interface applied to 30boxes manage to get everything right.
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Bubble Tips vs. Sweet Titles

January 29, 2006 ( 0 )

Mousing over the links here, there’s a nice bit of Javascript allowing developers to elaborate a little on the links, or provide ‘tips’. This example is known as ‘Bubble Tips’.
Dustin Diaz, creator of the excellent ‘Sweet Titles’ is not crazy about the source code or the way the titles follow your cursor. I’d acknowledge Diaz’s [...]

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Four Things

January 29, 2006 ( 0 )

Four jobs I’ve had in my life

Messenger for blood & urine samples at local hospital
Phone salesman for replaceable laser printer parts
Ghost writer for WWII vet biography project
Meat cutter and floor cleanup at African restaurant

Four movies I can watch over and over

Highball
Breaking the Waves
Urgh! A Music War
The Longest Day

Four places I have lived

Kilmarnock, Va
Atlanta, Ga
Portland, Or
Okinawa, [...]

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CSS3 Selectors Explained

January 12, 2006 ( 0 )

The folks at 456 Berea Street have created a nice resource for CSS3 specs. Browser support is slightly better than I thought, but still not great.
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Podcasts from the d.Construct 2005 Conference

January 12, 2006 ( 0 )

Via ClearLeft: “d.Construct 2005 was the UK’s first grassroots Web 2.0 conference. It was an affordable, one-day event aimed at those building the latest generation of web-based applications. The event discussed how new technology is transforming the web from a document delivery system to an application platform.” {More}
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Linking to feeds: Another approach

December 30, 2005 ( 0 )

Jeff Veen hit on some interesting points regarding user experience with RSS feeds:
“A while back on this blog, I asked for help in designing the most usable way to present links to a feed. That is, considering the vast majority aren’t even aware of what RSS is, why are we peppering our pages with [...]

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