Updated the homepage design

doc/_static/base-salt.css

@@ -107,6 +107,20 @@ dt:target, .highlighted {
  *
  */
 
+.doc-link,
+.feat-link {
+    margin-left: 0; text-align: left; }
+
+.doc-link dd,
+.feat-link dd {
+    margin-left: 0; font-style: italic; }
+
+.feat-link dt {
+    color: #3465a4; font-weight: bold; }
+
+.doc-link {
+    width: 44%; height: 6em; float: left;
+    margin-right: 2em; }
 
 /*
  *

doc/_templates/index.html

@@ -22,49 +22,62 @@
         addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management.</p>
 
         <h2>The Salt stack</h2>
-        <dl class="doc-link">
+        <dl class="feat-link">
             <dt>Remote execution</dt>
             <dd>Remote execution is the core of modern cloud and infrastructure
             solutions, and Salt offers the fastest and easiest remote execution
             system available today</dd>
         </dl>
 
-        <dl class="doc-link">
+        <dl class="feat-link">
             <dt>Configuration management</dt>
             <dd>Salt offers the world simplest, yet most powerful, flexible and
             scalable configuration management system</dd>
         </dl>
 
-        <dl class="doc-link">
+        <dl class="feat-link">
             <dt>Highly scalable</dt>
             <dd>Easily manage tens or hundreds or even tens of thousands of
             nodes with a multi-tiered management infrastructure.</dd>
         </dl>
 
-        <dl class="doc-link">
+        <dl class="feat-link">
             <dt>Highly configurable</dt>
             <dd>Receive responses where, how, and when you want.</dd>
         </dl>
-
     </div>
 
     <div class="documentation">
         <h2>Documentation</h2>
 
         <dl class="doc-link">
-            <dt>Tutorials</dt>
-            <dd>Get started with Salt in five minutes or less.</dd>
+            <dt class="doc-tutorials"><a href="{{ pathto("contents") }}#docs-tutorials">Tutorials</a></dt>
+            <dd>Get started with each Salt component in five minutes or less</dd>
         </dl>
 
         <dl class="doc-link">
-            <dt>Documentation</dt>
-            <dd>Comprehensive and in-depth documentation</dd>
+            <dt class="doc-fulldocs"><a href="{{ pathto("contents") }}#docs-reference">Documentation</a></dt>
+            <dd>Comprehensive and in-depth explanations and reference;
+                <br>Offline?
+                <a href="{{ github_downloads }}" class="doc-pdf">
+                    <img src="{{ pathto('_static/page_white_acrobat.png', 1) }}">
+                    PDF</a>
+                | <a href="{{ github_downloads }}" class="doc-epub">
+                    <img src="{{ pathto('_static/book_open.png', 1) }}">
+                    ePUB</a>
+            </dd>
         </dl>
 
         <dl class="doc-link">
-            <dt>Offline?</dt>
-            <dd>Download the documentation as a PDF or epub.</dd>
+            <dt class="doc-offline"><a href="{{ pathto("contents") }}">Contents</a></dt>
+            <dd>An exhaustive (and exhausting) overview of all the Salt documentation</dd>
         </dl>
+
+        <dl class="doc-link">
+            <dt class="doc-fulldocs"><a href="{{ pathto("py-modindex") }}">Module index</a></dt>
+            <dd>Quickly jump to the reference for individual modules, states, and more</dd>
+        </dl>
+
     </div>
 
 {% endblock %}

doc/_templates/indexsidebar.html

@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@
 {% else %}
     <p>Current version: <b>{{ version }}</b></p>
     <p>Get the Salt tarball from the <a href="{{ github_downloads }}">GitHub downloads page</a>,
-    or <a href="{{ pathto("topics/download") }}">packages are available</a> for some OSes.</p>
+    or <a href="{{ pathto("topics/installation") }}">packages are available</a> for some OSes.</p>
     <p><a href="{{ pathto("topics/releases/index") }}">Read the release announcement.</a></p>
+    {#
     <p>Latest <a href="http://saltstack.org/latest">development version docs</a> are also available.</p>
+    #}
 {% endif %}
 
 <h3>Get help. Get involved.</h3>

doc/contents.rst

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 .. _contents:
 
+.. |vid| image:: /_static/film_link.png
+
+.. _docs-tutorials:
+
 Salt at a glance
 ================
 
@@ -11,6 +15,7 @@ Learn about the various parts of Salt in five minute increments (or less).
 * **The basics:**
   :doc:`Installation <topics/installation>`
   | :doc:`Configuration <topics/configuration>`
+  | |vid| `Watch the screencast <http://blip.tv/nathaniel-whiteinge/salt-installation-configuration-and-remote-execution-5702765>`_
 * **Remote execution:**
   :doc:`Modules <topics/tutorials/modules>`
 * **State management:**
@@ -18,6 +23,10 @@ Learn about the various parts of Salt in five minute increments (or less).
   | :doc:`Part 2 <topics/tutorials/states_pt2>`
   | :doc:`Part 3 <topics/tutorials/states_pt3>`
 
+
+
+.. _docs-reference:
+
 Salt in depth
 =============