Hi
The attached patch is a first cut at part of a larger task that Jonathan and I have been discussing to improve the UX and simplify the download flow on the website.
This patch updates the main download page (/download) in a number of ways:
- Wording at the top and in the left menu is simplified, moving away from "words for the sake of it" as we have now and using more common and easy to understand terms like "Packages" instead of "Binaries"
- Some images have been updated or replaced to ensure they all have transparent backgrounds.
- The indented list of binary options with its myriad of links is replaced with a set of highly visible buttons to choose your distro family - see the attached initial.png - and then the distribution where applicable:
- The BSD and Linux buttons will display a second set of buttons to choose the distro when clicked. See linux.png.
- If Javascript is disabled;
- The BSD button will navigate to a new page showing the buttons for each supported BSD distro.
- The Linux button will navigate to the existing generic Linux page, where the list of distros at the top has also been replaced with buttons.
This patch does not attempt to sanitise the rest of the download index or any of the sub-pages at this time. That'll come later.
Comments/bikeshedding?
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