Modify Column 3 in drupal.org/start to "Learn" and add new items

+1 to changing the subheading to Learn.

Your copy sounds fine overall, but a few things...

• I see an issue is having 'Get Training' as a heading and a link. It should follow the style of the other sections and have links as inline text only. I'd just say a few words about the types of training that's available, and call it what it is: "Training services".
• Another part of learning Drupal are the immense number of podcasts, screencasts and blog posts on Planet. I don't know how we'd handle the first two, but perhaps it's just worth mentioning they can be found online (and link to planet?)

This seems like a good idea to me. Thanks for thinking about it!

Note that this page is being reformatted in the 7.x porting effort (layout is becoming pure CSS to be more mobile-friendly I believe) so any changes will need to be ported there too.

This is easily do-able in D7, since these column heading have already been converted by the Bluecheese Team from images to CSS-styled text.

Changes look good, but text needs to be shortened. 3rd column is already a bit longer then the rest, if we include all the proposed text it gets way too long, screenshot attached.

We could def lose "Learn how to use Drupal from a variety of helpful sources" and "Learn from the people who power Drupal", and I'm sure the documentation-related text could be shortened.

For consistency, Events needs a subhead, as does documentation (or move the paragraph under 'most popular guides')

removed link from Get Training title

So we want something a bit more like this:
Download Drupal > Extend Drupal > Learn > Get Support

I'm wondering about changing "Extend Drupal" to "Extend Core". right now it's repetitive.

This should be pretty easy to change and this is what it would look like.

I'm not sure how to make the other columns longer, but that would make more sense than making this column shorter.

As a newbie getting into Drupal right now, here's a few things I'd like to note:

For the true newbie, be careful about suggesting modules that are confusing to learn (even if they are necessary, like views) and base themes. I know it would be slightly more difficult to upkeep, but instead of having just a list of the "most popular" that automatically aggregated based on uses, having a curated list of "most beginner friendly" modules and themes would be far more helpful to beginners.

From personal example: I sat down with Zen on my very first site and it blew my mind. It did not work, and I did not know how to proceed at all. I ended up backing off for awhile because this was way above my head. Months later I installed a different contrib theme that was a fully functioning theme and it made a huge difference in my desire to want to continue. It was manageable.

Using the most popular list buried a little deeper in the beginner documentation wouldn't be bad. Introducing people to what most Drupalers know as gospel is a good idea. But maybe it can be a section with the idea "Modules & Themes you should get to know once you're comfortable" (which is too long for the actual name, but gets the idea across). That could be where Zen, Omega, Views and more are brought up.

Tagging this for Content Working Group

@kesoleil - Interesting point between popular modules & easy modules. People getting started need easy modules & themes.

For modules, I think this set might be easier than what we've got:
site_map, backup_migrate, webform, ckeditor, and pathauto

I don't know about what would be considered an easy theme. From a brief search these might be good:
danland, business, professional_theme, corporateclean, bluemasters, responsive or pixture_reloaded

As far as translations go, wouldn't it be great to either some of the ideas here https://drupal.org/node/1497176

We can guess that French might be a translation that would be relevant to someone in France or who who just has their browser's language default set to French. Both of these are knowable, so why not try to make it easier for the user?

If we're using something basic to determine if their browser is set for a non-English default language using something like:
$lang = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2);

Is there an easy way to see a list of languages where there is an available translation?

Here's a start anyways.

I think it is ok to separate out the language detection part of this.
If the rest is ok, that might unblock this.

The language detection isn't in the patch. I'm happy to put it in a new issue. Would be happy to see this change and then iterate as needed with new issues.

This page no longer exists as it did. /start is now a redirect to /download.