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-
-Announcements:
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-**Current AdminLTE version in master is v2 Beta 1**
+Introduction
+============
 
 **AdminLTE** -- is a fully responsive admin template. Based on **Bootstrap 3** framework. Highly customizable and easy to use. Fits many screen resolutions from small mobile devices to large desktops. Check out the live preview now and see for yourself. 
 
-**Live Preview: http://almsaeedstudio.com/preview/**
-
-Note: If the javascript in the preview does not work properly (specially IE users), please visit http://almsaeedstudio.com/AdminLTE (this could be because of the use of an iframe!)
+**Download & Preview on [Almsaeed Studio](http://almsaeedstudio.com)**
 
-Want More?
------------
+Looking for Premium Templates?
+==============================
 **Almsaeed studio just opened a new premium templates page. Hand picked to insure the best quality and the most affordable prices. Visit http://almsaeedstudio.com/premium for more information.**
 
 
-!["AdminLTE Presentation"](http://almsaeedstudio.com/adminlte2.png "AdminLTE Presentation")
+!["AdminLTE Presentation"] (http://almsaeedstudio.com/AdminLTE2.png "AdminLTE Presentation")
 
 **AdminLTE** has been carefully coded with clear comments in all of its JS, LESS and HTML files. LESS has been used to increase code customizability.
 
-Special Features:
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-- **Fully responsive**
-- **Enhanced for printing**
-- **Sortable dashboard widgets**
-- **18 plugins and 3 custom plugins**
-- **Light weight and fast**
-- **Compatible with most major browsers**
-- **Full support for Glyphicons, Fontawesome and Ion icons**
-
-Featured Pages:
-----------------
-- Dashboard
-- Mailbox
-- Calendar
-- Invoice
-- Lockscreen
-- Login
-- Register
-- 404 Error
-- 500 Error
-- Blank page
-
-Featured Plugins:
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-- Boostrap Slider
-- Ion slider
-- Bootstrap WYSIHTML5
-- CKEditor
-- Bootstrap Colorpicker
-- Bootstrap Date range Picker
-- Bootstrap Time Picker
-- Data Tables
-- Flot
-- Morris.js
-- Sparkilne
-- Full Calendar
-- iCheck
-- jQuery input mask
-- jQuery Knob
-- jVector Map
-- Slim Scroll
-- Pace
-- [Bootstrap Social Buttons](http://lipis.github.io/bootstrap-social/ "Bootstrap Social")
-
-Browser Support:
-----------------
+Installation
+============
+There are multiple ways to install AdminLTE.
+
+Download:
+---------
+Download from Github or [visit Almsaeed Studio](http://almsaeedstudio.com) and download the lateset release.
+
+Using The Command Line:
+-----------------------
+**Github**
+
+- Fork the repository ([here is the guide](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/)).
+- Clone to your machine ```git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/AdminLTE.git"```
+
+**Bower**
+
+```bower install git://github.com/almasaeed2010/AdminLTE.git```
+
+**Composer**
+
+```composer require "almasaeed2010/adminlte=~2.0"```
+
+Documentation
+=============
+Visit the [online documentation](http://almsaeedstudio.com/themes/AdminLTE/documentation/index.html) for the most
+updated guide. Information will be added on a weekly basis.
+
+Browser Support
+===============
 - IE 9+
-- Firefox 5+
-- Chrome 14+
-- Safari 5+
-- Opera 11+
-
-Change log:
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-ver 1.2:
+- Firefox (latest)
+- Chrome (latest)
+- Safari (latest)
+- Opera (latest)
+
+Contribution
+============
+Contribution are always **welcome and recommended**! Here is how:
+
+- Fork the repository ([here is the guide](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/)).
+- Clone to your machine ```git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/AdminLTE.git"
+- Make your changes
+- Create a pull request
+
+Contribution Requirements:
+--------------------------
+- When you contribute, you agree to give a non-exclusive license to Almsaeed Studio to use that contribution in any context as we (Almsaeed Studio) see appropriate.
+- If you use content provided by another party, it must be appropriately licensed using an [open source](http://opensource.org/licenses) license.
+- Contributions are only accepted through Github pull requests.
+- Finally, contributed code must work in all supported browsers (see above for browser support).
+
+License
+=======
+AdminLTE is an open source project by [Almsaeed Studio](http://almsaeedstudio.com) that is licensed under [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). Almsaeed Studio
+reserves the right to change the license of future releases.
+
+Change log
+==========
+**v2.0:**
+
+- Major layout bug fixes
+- Change in layout mark up
+- Added transitions to the sidebar
+- New skins and modified previous skins
+- Change in color scheme to a more complementing scheme 
+- Added footer support
+- Removed pace.js from the main app.js
+- Added support for collapsed sidebar as an initial state (add .sidebar-collapse to the body tag)
+- Added boxed layout (.layout-boxed)
+- Enhanced consistency in padding and margining
+- Updated Bootstrap to 3.3.2 
+- Fixed navbar dropdown menu on small screens positioning issues.
+- Updated Ion Icons to 2.0.0
+- Updated FontAwesome to 4.3.0
+- Added ChartJS 1.0.1
+- Removed iCheck dependency
+- Created Dashboard 2.0
+- Created new Chat widget (DirectChat)
+- Added transitions to DirectChat
+- Added contacts pane to DirectChat
+- Changed .right-side to .content-wrapper
+- Changed .navbar-right to .navbar-custom-menu
+- Removed unused files
+- Updated lockscreen style (HTML markup changed!)
+- Updated Login & Registration pages (HTML markup changed!)
+- Updated buttons style.
+- Enhanced border-radius consistency
+- Added mailbox: inbox, read, and compose pages
+- Bootstrap & jQuery are now hosted locally
+- Created documentation.
+
+**ver 1.2:**
+
 - Fixed the sidebar scroll issue when using the fixed layout.
 - Added [Bootstrap Social Buttons](http://lipis.github.io/bootstrap-social/ "Bootstrap Social") plugin.
 - Fixed RequireJS bug. Thanks to [StaticSphere](https://github.com/StaticSphere "github user"). 
 
-ver 1.1:
+**ver 1.1:**
+
 - Added new skin. class: .skin-black
 - Added [pace](http://github.hubspot.com/pace/docs/welcome/ "pace") plugin.
 
-To Do List:
------------
-- More features
-- Ajax version
-- More skins
-- Documentation
+Image Credits
+=============
+[Pixeden](http://www.pixeden.com/psd-web-elements/flat-responsive-showcase-psd)
+
+[Graphicsfuel](http://www.graphicsfuel.com/2013/02/13-high-resolution-blur-backgrounds/)
 
-Image Credits:
---------------
-[pixeden](http://www.pixeden.com/psd-web-elements/flat-responsive-showcase-psd "")
+[Pickaface](http://pickaface.net/)
 
-[graphicsfuel](http://www.graphicsfuel.com/2013/02/13-high-resolution-blur-backgrounds/ "")
+[Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/)
 
-[ajaxload](http://www.ajaxload.info/ "")
+Donations
+=========
+Donations are **greatly appreciated!**
 
-[pickaface](http://pickaface.net/ "")
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