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Add buttons to OS specfic download pages (esp. Windows) #862

Open willingc opened 8 years ago

willingc commented 8 years ago

Feedback from participants at recent Django Girls workshops and Python trainings shared that users were finding it difficult to determine which Windows version of Python should be installed. It would be great to add large yellow buttons to the OS specific pages like are found on the Download landing page to minimize confusion.

Download Landing Page

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OS specific page - Windows

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lac22 commented 8 years ago

2 people wrote webmaster wanting precisely this today.

In particular, these people have windows XP, are too new to computing to contemplate upgrading their OS, but also aren't up to figuring out which thing on the 3.4.3 download page would work with their machine.

willingc commented 8 years ago

@lac22 I would expect that anyone doing the Django Girls tutorial and has windows xp are going to have this issue. Likely others that use Windows XP too. I will file an issue on the Django tutorial to have them consider adding more guidance.

I still think buttons at the top of these pages versus links are the user friendly way to go longer term.