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+++ b/www/index.html
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-<html>
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15">
 <title>mu - e-mail searching and indexing</title>
 <style type="text/css">
 body {
+        title: "La"
 	margin:0px;
         background:#666666;
 	color: black;
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ a.menu:hover   {color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline; }
 <body>
 <table width="100%" bgcolor="#666666">
 <tr>
-  <td><img src="mu-small.png" align="left"> </td>
+  <td><img src="mu-small.png" align="left" alt="mu-small"> </td>
   <td align="right" class="menu">
   <a class="menu" href="#welcome" >welcome</a> |
   <a class="menu" href="#news" >news</a> |
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ a.menu:hover   {color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline; }
 <table width="800" align="center" bgcolor="#cccccc">
 <tr><td>  
 <!-- <img src="mu.jpg" align="left"> -->
-<img src="mu.jpg" align="right">
+<img src="mu.jpg" align="right" alt="mu">
 <!-- <img src="mu.png" align="right"> -->
 
 <h2><a name="welcome">welcome to mu</a></h2>
@@ -54,7 +55,10 @@ harder. How to find that one e-mail in an evergrowing haystack?
 
 <p>Enter <strong>mu</strong>. 'mu' is a set of command-line tools for
 Linux/Unix that enable you to quickly find the e-mails you are looking
-for.
+for, assuming that you store your e-mails in Maildirs (e-mail
+directories).
+
+<h3>how does it work?</h3>
 
 <p>First there is <tt>mu index</tt> which fills a database with
 information about all your e-mails; this may take a couple of minutes
@@ -103,40 +107,40 @@ href="http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html"
   slowly be added again in future versions.
 
   Note, this is version 0.6-beta, the 'real' 0.6 will follow in a few
-  weeks.
+  weeks.</li>
   
   <li>[2008-11-01] <strong>mu version 0.4</strong> released. This version adds
   extensions to the query language and the ability to get statistics about the
   messages that match some queries. <tt>mu-index</tt> is substantially faster.
   Also, <tt>mu-msginfo</tt> has been extended. Small optimizations have been
   done, and some bugs have been fixed.  Finally, some GTK+-widgets have been
-  added; they are to be considered 'experimental'.
+  added; they are to be considered 'experimental'.</li>
 
   <li>[2008-09-25] <strong>mu version 0.3</strong> released; this version adds
   further signicant indexing speedups (esp. on <tt>ext3</tt>-file
   systems). Added searching for relative dates ('3w' for 'three weeks ago');
   search for message properties such as has-attachment/signed/encrypted;
   search for message priority; updated documentation; define bookmarks for
-  search queries; more unit-tests.
+  search queries; more unit-tests.</li>
 
   <li>[2008-09-10] <strong>mu version 0.2</strong> released; this version adds
   supports for message-body searches (Xapian); indexing is much faster; added
   Maildir++ support; sorting of results; added
-  <tt>mu-mkmdir</tt>/<tt>mu-msginfo</tt>. Improved documentation, unit tests.
+  <tt>mu-mkmdir</tt>/<tt>mu-msginfo</tt>. Improved documentation, unit tests.</li>
 
-  <li>[2008-08-25] <strong>mu version 0.1</strong> released
+  <li>[2008-08-25] <strong>mu version 0.1</strong> released</li>
 </ul>
 
 <h2><a name="features" >features</a></h2>
 <strong><tt>mu find</tt></strong>:
 <ul>
-  <li>search for sender and recipient; subject,message body text
-  <li>output to stdout, or as maildirs with links to the original messages
+  <li>search for sender and recipient; subject,message body text</li>
+  <li>output to stdout, or as maildirs with links to the original messages</li>
 </ul>
 <strong><tt>mu index</tt></strong>:
 <ul>
-  <li>scan messages in recursive Maildirs, Maildir++ or separate files;
-  <li>only changed messages are considered when re-indexing;
+  <li>scan messages in recursive Maildirs, Maildir++ or separate files;</li>
+  <li>only changed messages are considered when re-indexing;</li>
 </ul>
   
 <h2><a name="download" >download and license</a></h2>
@@ -157,10 +161,8 @@ The mu source code is available in Gitorious; get it from there:
 </pre>
 
 This is the source code for the new versions of mu (0.6 beta and
-beyond). Unless you want to track development, it's better to track
-the released versions.
-
-  
+beyond). Unless you are a developer, it is recommend you use the
+actual releases, as the git-version may break at times.
 
 <h2><a name="building">building and dependencies</a></h2>
 
@@ -191,10 +193,8 @@ them in the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list" >issue list</a>
 C. Binnema</strong>, as a hobby project for my copious free time. It has no
 relation to my employer. <p>You can send e-mail to
 djcb-at-djcbsoftware-dot-nl.
-</td>
-</tr>
+</td></tr>
 </table>
-<p>
 <div align="right" class="mine">
 &copy;2008 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
 </div>
