Remove highlight bubble from downloads page #2205
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I watched several new users attempt to install julia today. The results were very painful. First the vast majority of users completely ignored the grey bubble at the top that contains `juliaup` information. This is a well documented phenomenon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness), but applies here quite strikingly. Next people would usually scroll down to the support table, pattern match their platform and try clicking on things, getting frustrated when nothing was happening. Very few people scrolled down to the actual list of binaries. This is a significant usability regression over the previous downloads page that just had the list of binaries. Try to fix things by: 1. Removing the styling of bubble at the top to signal that it is body content, not a banner. 2. Moving the manual install table up, so that people see it before the support table. This is a quick fix to hopefully restore usability for new users. Further improvements could surely be made, but hopefully this'll help for now.
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I watched several new users attempt to install julia today. The results were very painful. First the vast majority of users completely ignored the grey bubble at the top that contains
juliaupinformation. This is a well documented phenomenon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness), but applies here quite strikingly. Next people would usually scroll down to the support table, pattern match their platform and try clicking on things, getting frustrated when nothing was happening. Very few people scrolled down to the actual list of binaries. This is a significant usability regression over the previous downloads page that just had the list of binaries.Try to fix things by:
This is a quick fix to hopefully restore usability for new users. Further improvements could surely be made, but hopefully this'll help for now.