Revise title and enhance project description in index.html

Updated the title and added a welcome section with project details and technology used.

Author: mMoliere

src/main/xar-resources/index.html

@@ -271,15 +271,43 @@ <h2>Texts</h2>
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-            <h1>Digital Handbook of Jewish Authors Writing in Arabic - beta</h1>
+            <h1>Digital Handbook of Jewish Authors Writing in Arabic – Beta</h1>
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-    <div class="container section"><div class="col-12">
-        <h2>About the application</h2>
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-    </div></div>
-    <div class="container-fluid quinconce"><div class="col-12">
+    <div class="container section">
+            <div class="col-12">
+                <h2>Welcome to JALit</h2>
+                <p>JALit (short for Jewish-Arabic Literature) is a digital handbook of Jewish
+                    authors writing in Arabic, comprising approximately 2000 records. Our project
+                    curates and organizes data on manuscripts, people (especially authors), works,
+                    places, and the relationships between them. </p>
+                <p>The current version of JALit is an outcome of the ERC-funded MAJLIS project,
+                    focusing on texts produced and studied at the Qaraite academy in 11th-century
+                    Jerusalem. Our project team has dedicated themselves to documenting and
+                    describing manuscripts and codicological records, while the profiles of
+                    individuals and their relationships draw from our original research. </p>
+            </div>
+        </div>
+        <div class="container section">
+            <div class="col-12">
+                <h2>Technology</h2>
+                <p>JALit uses the TEI-XML format to systematically capture detailed data about
+                    manuscripts, people, places, works, and relationships, ensuring a standardized
+                    approach to documenting the intricate details of Jewish-Arabic literature. Data
+                    entry is facilitated by a customized exist-DB tool called manuForma, which is
+                    based on XForms. manuForma is a powerful tool that allows our team to generate
+                    TEI-XML compliant records through a user-friendly web interface, simplifying the
+                    data input process while ensuring high standards of accuracy and
+                    consistency.</p>
+                <p>The JALit application builds on the exist-DB platform Srophé and adapted to meet
+                    our project's needs. Srophé manages Jewish-Arabic literary data, including
+                    manuscript records, author relationships, and metadata. Both manuForma and
+                    Srophé run on an exist-DB server, ensuring reliable performance and data
+                    integrity. They are available under an open-source license on GitHub,
+                    encouraging transparency and collaboration.</p>
+            </div>
+        </div>
+        <!--<div class="container-fluid quinconce"><div class="col-12">
         <h2 class="withunderline">Active projects</h2>
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             <a href="http://syriaca.org/"><img src="resources/images/syriaca.png" /></a>
@@ -313,7 +341,7 @@ <h3>About the application</h3>
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             <a href="" class="cta_rnd">Visit website</a>
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+    </div></div>-->
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@@ -344,4 +372,4 @@ <h3>About the application</h3>
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