diff --git a/generators/app/templates/pages/index.html b/generators/app/templates/pages/index.html
index 3384ebac..8a467625 100755
--- a/generators/app/templates/pages/index.html
+++ b/generators/app/templates/pages/index.html
@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@
     <h1 data-template="config:app-title">Generated page</h1>
   <% if(apptype == 'plain'){ %>
   </div><% } else { %><% } %>
-    <div class="row">
+  <div class="alert alert-success">
+    <p>
+      This is the entry page into your application and was generated by yeoman. It uses HTML templates for a clean separation of HTML views and application logic.</p>
+    <p>To add your own template functions, start by editing the XQuery module:
+      <pre>app.xql</pre>.</p>
+  </div>  
+  <div class="row">
       <div class="col-md-6">
         <p>The page template uses the <a href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/">Bootstrap</a> CSS library for the page layout.</p>
       </div>