diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 48034ac..a60c342 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,13 +1,54 @@
 Django Compressor
 =================
 
-Compresses linked and inline JavaCcript or CSS into a single cached file.
+Django Compressor can combine and compress linked and inline Javascript
+or CSS found inside a Django template into cacheable static files. It does so
+through use of a template tag called `compress`.
 
-The main website for django-compressor is
-`github.com/jezdez/django_compressor`_ where you can also file tickets.
+HTML in between `{% compress js/css %}` and `{% endcompress %}` is parsed
+and searched for CSS or JS. These styles and scripts are then processed and
+concatenated.
 
-You can also install the `in-development version`_ of django-compressor with
+The default action for CSS is to rewrite paths to static files and fit them
+with a cache busting timestamp. For Javascript it is to compress it using
+`jsmin`.
+
+As the final result the template tag outputs a `<script>` or `<link>` tag
+pointing to the optimized file. These files are stored inside Django's static
+media folder and given an unique name based on their content.
+
+Since the file name is dependend on the content these files can be given a far
+future expiration date without worrying about stale browser caches.
+
+The concatenation and compressing process can also be jump started outside of
+the request/response cycle by using the Django management command
+`manage.py compress`.
+
+Configurability & Extendibility
+-------------------------------
+
+Django Compressor is highly configurable and extendible. By default HTML parsing
+is done using `BeautifulSoup`. As an alternative django-compress provides an
+`lxml` based parser, as well as an abstract base class that makes it easy to
+write a custom parser.
+
+Django Compressor also comes with built in support for CSS Tidy, YUI CSS and
+JS minification, the Google's Closure Compiler and a filter to convert (some)
+images into `data:` URIs.
+
+If your setup requires a different compressor, or other post-processing tool it
+will be fairly easy to implement a custom filter. Simply extend from one of
+the available base classes.
+
+More documentation about the usage and settings of django-compressor can be
+found on `readthedocs.org/docs/django_compressor/en/latest`_.
+
+The source code for django-compressor can be found and contributed to on
+`github.com/jezdez/django_compressor`_. There you can also file tickets.
+
+The `in-development version`_ of django-compressor can be installed with
 ``pip install django_compressor==dev`` or ``easy_install django_compressor==dev``.
 
+.. _readthedocs.org/docs/django_compressor/en/latest: http://readthedocs.org/docs/django_compressor/en/latest
 .. _github.com/jezdez/django_compressor: http://github.com/jezdez/django_compressor
 .. _in-development version: http://github.com/jezdez/django_compressor/tarball/master#egg=django_compressor-dev
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 67365a2..950fa7a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ setup(
     version = VERSION,
     url = 'http://django_compressor.readthedocs.org/',
     license = 'BSD',
-    description = "Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.",
+    description = "Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into single cached files.",
     long_description = README,
     author = 'Jannis Leidel',
     author_email = 'jannis@leidel.info',