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@@ -12,23 +12,46 @@ Roots is a WordPress starter theme based on [HTML5 Boilerplate](http://html5boil
 
 ## Installation
 
-Clone the git repo - `git clone git://github.com/roots/roots.git` - or [download it](https://github.com/roots/roots/zipball/master) and then rename the directory to the name of your theme or website. [Install Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/getting-started), and then install the dependencies for Roots contained in `package.json` by running the following from the Roots theme directory:
+Clone the git repo - `git clone git://github.com/roots/roots.git` - or [download it](https://github.com/roots/roots/zipball/master) and then rename the directory to the name of your theme or website.
 
+If you don't use [Bedrock](https://github.com/roots/bedrock), you'll need to add the following to your `wp-config.php` on your development installation:
+
+```php
+define('WP_ENV', 'development');
 ```
-npm install
-```
+
+## Theme activation
 
 Reference the [theme activation](http://roots.io/roots-101/#theme-activation) documentation to understand everything that happens once you activate Roots.
 
-## Theme Development
+## Compiling CSS and JavaScript
 
-After you've installed Grunt and ran `npm install` from the theme root, use `grunt watch` to watch for updates to your LESS and JS files and Grunt will automatically re-build as you write your code.
+Roots uses [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/) for compiling LESS to CSS, checking for JS errors, live reloading, concatenating and minifying files, versioning assets, and generating lean Modernizr builds.
+
+To use it, install the required dependencies as directed and then run some Grunt commands.
+
+### Install Grunt
+
+From the command line:
+
+1. Install `grunt-cli` globally with `npm install -g grunt-cli`.
+2. Navigate to the theme directory, then run `npm install`. npm will look at `package.json` and automatically install the necessary dependencies. It will also automatically run `bower install`, which references dependencies in `bower.json`.
+
+When completed, you'll be able to run the various Grunt commands provided from the command line.
+
+**Unfamiliar with npm? Don't have node installed?** [Download and install node.js](http://nodejs.org/download/) before proceeding.
+
+### Available Grunt commands
+
+* `grunt dev` — Compile LESS to CSS, concatenate and validate JS
+* `grunt watch` — Compile assets when file changes are made
+* `grunt build` — Create minified assets that are used on non-development environments
 
 ## Configuration
 
-Edit `lib/config.php` to enable or disable support for various theme functions and to define constants that are used throughout the theme.
+Edit `lib/config.php` to enable or disable support for various theme functions and to define constants.
 
-Edit `lib/init.php` to setup custom navigation menus and post thumbnail sizes.
+Edit `lib/init.php` to setup navigation menus, post thumbnail sizes, post formats, and sidebars.
 
 ## Documentation
 
@@ -45,16 +68,19 @@ Edit `lib/init.php` to setup custom navigation menus and post thumbnail sizes.
 * HTML5 Boilerplate's markup along with ARIA roles and microformat
 * Bootstrap
 * [Grunt build script](http://roots.io/using-grunt-for-wordpress-theme-development/)
+* Bower for front-end package management
 * [Theme activation](http://roots.io/roots-101/#theme-activation)
 * [Theme wrapper](http://roots.io/an-introduction-to-the-roots-theme-wrapper/)
-* Root relative URLs
 * Cleaner HTML output of navigation menus
-* Cleaner output of `wp_head` and enqueued scripts/styles
-* Nice search (`/search/query/`)
-* Image captions use `<figure>` and `<figcaption>`
-* Example vCard widget
 * Posts use the [hNews](http://microformats.org/wiki/hnews) microformat
-* [Multilingual ready](http://roots.io/wpml/) (Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese, Serbian)
+* [Multilingual ready](http://roots.io/wpml/) and over 30 available [community translations](https://github.com/roots/roots-translations)
+
+### Features from [Soil](https://github.com/roots/soil)
+
+* Root relative URLs
+* Nice search (`/search/query/`)
+* Cleaner output of `wp_head` and enqueued scripts/styles
+* Image captions use `<figure>` and `<figcaption>`
 
 ## Contributing