diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d9f25ed2..4065726a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-A next generation web framework using the Haskell programming language, 
-featuring:
+An advanced web framework using the Haskell programming language. Featuring:
 
   * safety & security guaranteed at compile time
   * performance
diff --git a/yesod/yesod.cabal b/yesod/yesod.cabal
index b01665d7..be76e1e9 100644
--- a/yesod/yesod.cabal
+++ b/yesod/yesod.cabal
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ author:          Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>
 maintainer:      Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>
 synopsis:        Creation of type-safe, RESTful web applications.
 description:
-    Yesod is a framework designed to foster creation of RESTful web application that have strong compile-time guarantees of correctness. It also affords space efficient code and portability to many deployment backends, from CGI to stand-alone serving.
+    A RESTful web framework with strong compile-time guarantees of correctness. It also affords space efficient code, highly concurrent loads, and portability to many deployment backends (via the wai package), from CGI to stand-alone serving.
     .
-    The Yesod documentation site <http://docs.yesodweb.com/> has much more information, tutorials and information on some of the supporting packages, like Hamlet and web-routes-quasi.
+    Yesod also focuses on developer productivity. Yesod integrates well with tools for all your basic web development (wai, persistent, and shakespeare/hamlet)
+    .
+    The Yesod documentation site <http://www.yesodweb.com/> has much more information, including on the supporting packages mentioned above.
 category:        Web, Yesod
 stability:       Stable
 cabal-version:   >= 1.6