Could those of the English speaking persuasion take a quick look at bug and post your
comments there (or start a discussion here).

The new web site is going live today and it would be nice if the first words people see when they request the homepage would make sense.

The design for the new site starts the homepage with the following text:

"Welcome to The New GIMP Web Site. This site attempts to help you to use The GIMP. The GIMP (GNU/Image Manipulation Program) is a very nice graphics manipulation application that works on many operating systems, in many languages, on many file formats and is used for a variety of computer imagery purposes. Hopefully, you will find what you need here. Grab a properly chilled beverage and enjoy."

I posted in the bug report:

"First, I would like to say that it is very good that the new web site has a blurb right at the start that explains what the site and the GIMP are about.

I disagree, however, with the second sentence: "This site attempts to help you to use The GIMP."

This would suggest that www.gimp.org is completely and only devoted to instruction. I feel it should say that "This is the official GIMP web site" instead. If we feel that the instruction part of the site is sufficiently important, that could be mentioned later on in the blurb."

Scizzo recommended the following replacement:

"This is the official GIMP website and will try to help you to get the information needed to get going with The GIMP."