Design for cURL

Hey, this is looking good. I think it’s aesthetically pleasing and clear without compromising the “just the facts, we’re geeks” factor. Any thoughts about including space for their hideous ads? Not that I really want to see them…

some thoughts:

• Indeed this is going in the right direction
• Think about hierarchies within the titles themselves
• This Blue as a link with an underline always translates as a default color and is suspected of not being a deliberated design decision (especially when coupled with the default underline)
• Look at Sourceforge, Google Code and Trac for references, these are all platforms that try to service open source software development projects
• Try to think of the video idea and account for it in the design
• Colors?

Have you made any contact with these guys so far?

Thanks for the feedback. I would love to not include the ads, but I think it’s necessary, right? Can I ask them if I have to include adspace?

I agree about the blue underlines, I think it just seemed like a natural thing to do for a site like this, but design-wise not so good.

I have started a conversation with them. I told them how I don’t really understand how to work cURL, and they were open to helping me, but I don’t think they realize the extent to which I don’t understand it, haha.
They were also very open to coming up with a redesign! I sent them my jpeg, and told them it was a rough sketch, so hopefully I will get feedback.
I love the idea of the video, and I asked them what they thought, so hopefully they like it too!

Agree with what has been stated, watch your hierarchy (maybe approach it like an info heavy print piece…newspaper is the best comparison I can come up with) and the default blue underline…and I’m assuming that those ads generate revenue so they are likely not going anywheres. If they are open to the redesign concept you definitely need to start a dialog re:adspace.

i also agree with everything. it’s looking really nice, but the links look a little defaulty… i don’t know the solution to this, but i’m sure there are examples somewhere. good job so far sheila!