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+title: "Introducing the new Docs landing page"
+categories: news, foundation
+author: Amanda Perino
+published: true
+date: 2024-12-17
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+Last week, we published a bunch of [new](https://rubyonrails.org/2024/12/12/introducing-doximity-case-study) and [updated](https://rubyonrails.org/2024/12/13/learn-Rails-8-tutorial-and-unpacked-videos) resources to help you learn Rails and learn how companies leverage Rails to build successful businesses. But we also made a few structural and navigational changes to the website that you may not have noticed (yet).
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+**The challenge: lots of resources, little space**
+
+Earlier this year, we had big plans:
+- Create a new flagship tutorial (with more planned soon).
+- Extract the Rails installation instructions from the tutorial into a standalone Installation Guide (because you shouldn’t have to find this information buried in chapter 3 of a tutorial).
+- Publish the first case study (with more planned soon).
+- On top of all that, launch a merch store.
+
+We were excited that all this was coming, but the navbar was already quite crowded..._where were all these new resources going to live?_ 
+
+**The solution: a unified Docs landing page**
+
+Introducing **[Docs](/docs)**, the friendly new starting point for everything you need to install Rails, learn it, get better at it, and get involved. 
+
+From one convenient page, you can now access the following: Installation Guide, Tutorials, Guides, API Docs, Case Studies, the Forum, and the Contributing Guide.
+
+<img src="/assets/images/docs-landing-page.png">
+
+Other changes you might notice in the navbar:
+- We’ve renamed ‘Contribute’ to **Source** to clarify the difference between the GitHub repository and the Contributing Guide. (We also made the **Contributing Guide** easier to find. Rails is an open-source project, but this important info was buried 85% down the Guides index page. It’s now featured more prominently on the Docs landing page.) 
+- ‘Team’ is now called **Community**, where you can find all of the Rails teams and the Contributors site. This renaming also balances out the navbar.
+- The ‘Blog’ is now called **News** since it also contains Rails Foundation news alongside Rails updates and This Week in Rails newsletters.
+- With **Guides**, **API docs**, and the **Forum** now nested under **Docs**, this gave us room in the navbar to add 
+**Merch** and **Events**.
+
+These changes aim to make the Rails website more welcoming and friendly-to-navigate for beginners, while helping you, as a more experienced Rails dev, find what you need quickly. This (re)structure also gives the Rails Foundation a clear home for future tutorials and case studies, so expect more of those released next year. 
+
+[Take a look at the new Docs page](/docs) and let us know what you think!
+
+_The Docs landing page was designed and shipped by <a href="https://www.meticulous.com/">John Athayde</a> with feedback and direction from the **Rails Core**, **Issues**, and **Committers** teams, and made possible by the support of the **members of the Rails Foundation**. Thank you to everyone involved for your input!_