diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9c83e78187..fab6b7a459 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <h1 align="center">
   <a href="https://scitools.org.uk/iris/docs/latest/" style="display: block; margin: 0 auto;">
-   <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pelson/iris/markdown_readme/docs/iris/src/_static/logo_banner.png"
+   <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SciTools/iris/master/docs/iris/src/_static/logo_banner.png"
         style="max-width: 40%;" alt="Iris"></a><br>
 </h1>
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ representations become unwieldy and inefficient.
 [units](https://github.com/SciTools/cf_units), and coordinate metadata
 are built-in to Iris, giving you a rich and expressive interface for maintaining
 an accurate representation of your data. Its first-class treatment of data and
-associated metadata, includes:
+associated metadata includes:
 
   * aggregations and reductions (min, max, (area-)weighted mean, etc.)
   * interpolation and regridding (nearest-neighbor, linear, area-weighted, etc.)
diff --git a/docs/iris/src/_templates/index.html b/docs/iris/src/_templates/index.html
index e444067911..ea8f4d0133 100644
--- a/docs/iris/src/_templates/index.html
+++ b/docs/iris/src/_templates/index.html
@@ -73,18 +73,48 @@
 {% block body %}
 
 
-<p style="font-style: italic; font-size: larger;">
-Iris seeks to provide a powerful, easy to use, and community-driven Python library for analysing and visualising meteorological and oceanographic data sets.
+
+
+<p>
+  Iris implements a data model based on the <a href="http://cfconventions.org/">CF conventions</a>
+  giving you a powerful, format-agnostic, interface for working with your data.
+  It excels when working with multi-dimensional Earth Science data, where tabular
+  representations become unwieldy and inefficient.
 </p>
 <p>
-With Iris you can:
+  <a href="http://cfconventions.org/standard-names.html">CF Standard names</a>,
+  <a href="https://github.com/SciTools/cf_units">units</a>, and coordinate metadata
+  are built-in to Iris, giving you a rich and expressive interface for maintaining
+  an accurate representation of your data. Its first-class treatment of data and
+  associated metadata includes:
+</p>
 <ul>
-    <li>Use a single API to work on your data, irrespective of its original format.
-    <li>Read and write (CF-)netCDF, GRIB, and PP files.</li>
-    <li>Easily produce graphs and maps via integration with matplotlib and cartopy.</li>
+  <li>aggregations and reductions (min, max, (area-)weighted mean, etc.)</li>
+  <li>interpolation and regridding (nearest-neighbor, linear, area-weighted, etc.)</li>
+  <li>operator overloads (<code>+</code>, <code>-</code>, <code>*</code>, <code>/</code>, etc.)</li>
+  <li>merge and concatenate</li>
+  <li>subsetting and extraction</li>
+  <li>unit conversion</li>
+  <li>a visualisation interface based on <a href="https://matplotlib.org/">matplotlib</a> and
+    <a href="https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/">cartopy</a></li>
 </ul>
+<p>
+  A number of file formats are recognised by Iris, including CF-compliant NetCDF, GRIB,
+  and PP, and it has a plugin architecture to allow other formats to be added seamlessly.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Building upon <a href="http://www.numpy.org/">numpy</a> and
+  <a href="https://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/">dask</a>,
+  Iris scales from efficient single-machine workflows right through to multi-core
+  clusters and HPC.
+  Interoperability with packages from the wider scientific python ecosystem comes from Iris'
+  use of standard numpy/dask arrays as its underlying data storage.
 </p>
 
+<div style="float:right; padding-top: 50px; padding-right: 10px;">
+	<div class="slideshow"></div>
+	<div id="sliderNav" align="center"></div>
+</div>
 
 <div style="float: left;">
 	<ul style="list-style: none; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 50px;">
@@ -119,10 +149,6 @@
 	</ul>
 </div>
 
-<div style="float:right; padding-top: 50px; padding-right: 10px;">
-	<div class="slideshow"></div>
-	<div id="sliderNav" align="center"></div>
-</div>
 
 <div class="clearer"></div>
 
diff --git a/docs/iris/src/_templates/layout.html b/docs/iris/src/_templates/layout.html
index 93ed6b19a7..c28efe8683 100644
--- a/docs/iris/src/_templates/layout.html
+++ b/docs/iris/src/_templates/layout.html
@@ -89,4 +89,6 @@ <h4 style="padding: 0px; max-width: 60ch; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
     {%- endif %}
     </div>
 
+    <!-- Include a version switcher to easily move between the documentation of different versions -->
+    <script type=text/javascript src=/iris/docs/version_switch.js></script>
 {% endblock %}