Download page needs a tidy up

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 03:07:39 UTC, Manu wrote:
> So I'm trying to find windows binaries for GDC and LDC...
>
> First place I look is dlang.org/download. Appears to be for 
> DMD... keep
> looking.
>
> I look at the GDC/LDC wiki pages. No links to binaries anywhere.
> GDC and LDC home pages... no links to binaries.
> Github doesn't host binaries anymore...
>
> Where are they?
>
> Turns out there are links to the GDC binaries (hosted on 
> bitbucket) on
> dlang.org/download.
> ...I didn't previously notice they were there, never scrolled 
> down far
> enough. The impression you get from the top of the page is that
> dlang.orgis just DMD related, and I quickly dismissed it 
> previously
>>_<
>
> But there's still no LDC binary there... where is it?
>
> This needs to be fixed. You can argue I'm retarded and 
> ignorant, but as an
> end user, it should take me no more than 5 seconds to find the 
> download
> button.
>
> I suggest, on the front page of dlang.org, there should be a 
> MASSIVE
> button: "DOWNLOAD D COMPILERS", and the download page should be 
> tweaked to
> be more obviously compiler agnostic.
>
> D1 and DMC consume an unreasonable amount of realestate, hiding 
> GDC/LDC
> (surely basically nobody is looking for those?), perhaps they 
> should be
> reduced to small test links with the other links down the 
> bottom of the
> page?
> This will allow room to present GDC and LDC without scrolling.
>
> And why is there no LDC binary?

I tried to fix some of these problems here[1].  Maybe someone can 
take what I did and fix it up enough to be used.

1. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/304