diff --git a/website/content/css/geode-site.css b/website/content/css/geode-site.css
index ae737ed81..e787db8b1 100644
--- a/website/content/css/geode-site.css
+++ b/website/content/css/geode-site.css
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ a.btn {
   font-family: 'klavika-web', 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
   font-weight: 500 !important;
   font-style: normal;
-  letter-spacing: 110%;
+  letter-spacing: 4%;
 }
 h1 {
   font-weight: 200;
@@ -381,8 +381,9 @@ li.divider {
 .bf-masthead .description {
   font-style: normal;
   font-size: 150%;
-  margin-bottom: 45px;
-  /*line-height: 100%;*/
+  margin-bottom: 20px;
+  letter-spacing: 2%;
+  line-height: 135%;
 }
 .bf-masthead .btn-wrapper {
   text-align: center;
@@ -1500,7 +1501,7 @@ h2.icns-tools:before{
 }
 
 /* desert scheme ported from vim to google prettify */
-pre.prettyprint { display: block; background-color: #333 }
+pre.prettyprint { display: block; background-color: #D4D4D4 }
 pre .nocode { background-color: none; color: #000 }
 pre .str { color: #ffa0a0 } /* string  - pink */
 pre .kwd { color: #f0e68c; font-weight: bold }
diff --git a/website/content/index.html b/website/content/index.html
index 5e9f742da..17200401c 100644
--- a/website/content/index.html
+++ b/website/content/index.html
@@ -24,12 +24,10 @@
             <img class="logo-title img-responsive hidden-xs" src="img/Apache_Geode_logo.png" />
             <div class="text-container">
                 <h2 class="tagline"><em>Performance</em> is key. <em>Consistency</em> is a must.</h2>
-                <p class="description">Providing low latency, high concurrency data management solutions since 2002.<br/>
-                  <br/>Build high-speed, data-intensive applications that elastically meet performance requirements at any scale.<br/>
-                  Take advantage of Apache Geode's unique technology that blends advanced techniques for data replication, partitioning and distributed processing.
-
-                  <br/><br/>
-                  Apache Geode provides a database-like consistency model, reliable transaction processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very low latency performance with high concurrency processing.<br/>
+                <p class="description">Providing low latency, high concurrency data management solutions since 2002.</p>
+                <p class="description">Build high-speed, data-intensive applications that elastically meet performance requirements at any scale.</p>
+				<p class="description">Take advantage of Apache Geode's unique technology that blends advanced techniques for data replication, partitioning and distributed processing.</p>
+				<p class="description">Apache Geode provides a database-like consistency model, reliable transaction processing, and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very low latency performance with high concurrency processing.</p>
             </div>
 
             <div class="btn-wrapper">
@@ -137,11 +135,14 @@ <h3>Adapters</h3>
 
 <section class="bf-questions">
     <div class="container">
-            <div class="col-md-12 text-center cta">
-                And much more... Interested? You can check our <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Index#Index-Geodein5minutesGeodein5minutes" target="_blank" class="btn btn-inverse btn-lg">Geode in 5 minutes tutorial</a> <span class="avoidwrap">, ask a question on the <a href="/community/" class="btn btn-inverse btn-lg">Mailing lists</a> or <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=Apache%20Geode" class="btn btn-inverse btn-lg">StackOverflow</a></span>
-            </div>
-    </div>
-</section
+		<div class="col-md-12 text-center cta">
+			<h2>Ready to get started?</h2>
+			<p>Follow the tutorial</p>
+			<p><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Index#Index-Geodein5minutesGeodein5minutes" class="btn btn-inverse btn-lg" target="_blank">Geode in five minutes</a></p>
+			<p>Or <a href="https://geode.apache.org/community/" title="Geode community resources">browse community resources</a>.</p>
+		</div>
+	</div>
+</section>
 
 <section class="bf-news">
     <div class="container">