From 8487f30ea630b0b0d26adda5c03194e38df26309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ray Speth <speth@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:46:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updated the main documentation page

---
 doc/sphinx/cti/phases.rst |  4 ++--
 doc/sphinx/index.rst      | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/cti/phases.rst b/doc/sphinx/cti/phases.rst
index acfe9ab1e..76dfd9a77 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/cti/phases.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/cti/phases.rst
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ gas-electrolyte interfaces, and two metal-electrolyte interfaces.
 .. figure:: /_static/images/sofc-phases.png
     :align: center
 
-    Phases entering into a hypothetical microkinetic simulation of an idealized
-    solid-oxide fuel cell.
+    **Phases entering into a hypothetical microkinetic simulation of an
+    idealized solid-oxide fuel cell.**
 
 How to carry out this fuel cell simulation is beyond the scope of this document;
 we introduce it here only to give an example of the types of phases and
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/index.rst b/doc/sphinx/index.rst
index 2c3edbc67..b1dcf0ae9 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/index.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/index.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,25 @@
 .. Cantera documentation master file, created by
    sphinx-quickstart on Mon Mar 12 11:43:09 2012.
 
-*********************
-Cantera Documentation
-*********************
+*******
+Welcome
+*******
 
-Contents
-========
+Cantera is a suite of object-oriented software tools for problems involving
+chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and/or transport processes.
+
+Cantera provides types (or classes) of objects representing phases of
+matter, interfaces between these phases, reaction managers, time-dependent
+reactor networks, and steady one-dimensional reacting flows. Cantera is
+currently used for applications including combustion, detonations,
+electrochemical energy conversion and storage, fuel cells, batteries, aqueous
+electrolyte solutions, plasmas, and thin film deposition.
+
+Cantera can be used from Python and Matlab, or in applications written
+in C++ and Fortran 90.
+
+Documentation
+=============
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
@@ -19,7 +32,11 @@ Contents
 
    Cantera Development Homepage <http://cantera.googlecode.com>
 
-* `C++ API Documentation <../../doxygen/html/index.html>`_
+* **C++ Documentation**
+
+  * `Module Organization <../../doxygen/html/modules.html>`_
+  * `Index of Classes <../../doxygen/html/classes.html>`_
+  * `Deprecation List <../../doxygen/html/deprecated.html>`_
 
 Indexes
 =======