Right now, the featured download block shows an icon the same size as all the others, and assaults the viewer with a wall of text.

The featured downloads block would look a lot better if you used a big image and a small block of text.

The text block should have a dark margin around it, but I could not easily do this with CSS. You get the idea.

Alternatively, you could put the text in a row below the image. The point is, if something is "featured" you want to show it off more.