diff --git a/docs/dotnet/README.md b/docs/dotnet/README.md
index fd587ad2807d..45fe4e30fcd8 100644
--- a/docs/dotnet/README.md
+++ b/docs/dotnet/README.md
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
-## How to build and run the website
+# How to build and run the website
 
-### Prerequisites
-- dotnet 7.0 or later
+## Prerequisites
+
+- dotnet 8.0 or later
+
+## Build
 
-### Build
 Firstly, go to autogen/dotnet folder and run the following command to build the website:
+
 ```bash
 dotnet tool restore
-dotnet tool run docfx website/docfx.json --serve
+dotnet tool run docfx ../docs/dotnet/docfx.json --serve
 ```
 
-After the command is executed, you can open your browser and navigate to `http://localhost:8080` to view the website.
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+After the command is executed, you can open your browser and navigate to `http://localhost:8080` to view the website.
diff --git a/docs/dotnet/docfx.json b/docs/dotnet/docfx.json
index 7eefe1a32b1a..f43779dd3e85 100644
--- a/docs/dotnet/docfx.json
+++ b/docs/dotnet/docfx.json
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@
         {
           "files": [
             "src/Microsoft.AutoGen/Core/**/*.csproj",
-            "src/Microsoft.AutoGen/Contracts/**/*.csproj"
+            "src/Microsoft.AutoGen/Contracts/**/*.csproj",
+            "src/Microsoft.AutoGen/Core.Grpc/**/*.csproj",
+            "src/Microsoft.AutoGen/AgentHost/**/*.csproj",
+            "src/Microsoft.AutoGen/RuntimeGateway.Grpc/**/*.csproj",
+            "src/Microsoft.AutoGen/Extensions/**/*.csproj"
           ],
           "src": "../../dotnet/"
         }
diff --git a/docs/dotnet/index.md b/docs/dotnet/index.md
index e5c206c9a766..dc6dac9ece82 100644
--- a/docs/dotnet/index.md
+++ b/docs/dotnet/index.md
@@ -1,15 +1,6 @@
 ---
 _disableAffix: true
 ---
-<style>
-    .center {
-        text-align: center;
-    }
-
-    .subheader {
-        font-size: 1.5em;
-    }
-</style>
 
 <div class="center">
     <h1>AutoGen .NET</h1>
@@ -23,7 +14,46 @@ _disableAffix: true
     <div class="card">
       <div class="card-body">
         <h5 class="card-title">Core</h5>
+<p>
+
+[![dotnet-ci](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/actions/workflows/dotnet-build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/actions/workflows/dotnet-build.yml)
+[![NuGet version](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.Contracts.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.Contracts)
+[![NuGet version](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.Core.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.Core)
+[![NuGet version](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.Core.Grpc.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.Core.Grpc)
+[![NuGet version](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.RuntimeGateway.Grpc.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.RuntimeGateway.Grpc)
+[![NuGet version](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.AgentHost.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Microsoft.AutoGen.AgentHost)
+
+</p>
         <p class="card-text">An event-driven programming framework for building scalable multi-agent AI systems.</p>
+
+- Deterministic and dynamic agentic workflows for business processes
+- Research on multi-agent collaboration
+- Distributed agents for multi-language applications
+- integration with event-driven, cloud native applications
+
+*Start here if you are building workflows or distributed agent systems*
+
+<p>
+<div class="highlight">
+<pre id="codecell0" tabindex="0">
+
+```bash
+dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Contracts
+dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Core
+
+# optionally - for distributed agent systems:
+dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.RuntimeGateway.Grpc
+dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.AgentHost
+
+# other optional packages
+dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Agents
+dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Extensions.Aspire
+dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Extensions.MEAI
+dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Extensions.SemanticKernel
+```
+
+</pre></div></p>
+<p>
         <a href="core/index.md" class="btn btn-primary">Get started</a>
       </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/docs/dotnet/template/public/main.css b/docs/dotnet/template/public/main.css
index 6f4abd6639ec..cdc204c1fe3d 100644
--- a/docs/dotnet/template/public/main.css
+++ b/docs/dotnet/template/public/main.css
@@ -2,3 +2,114 @@
     height: 50px;
     margin-right: 0.5rem;
 }
+.bd-footer {
+    font-size: 0.8rem;
+  }
+  
+  html[data-theme="light"] {
+    --pst-color-primary: hsl(222.2 47.4% 11.2%);
+    --pst-color-secondary: #007bff;
+    --pst-color-secondary-bg: #007bff;
+    --pst-color-accent: #007bff;
+    --sd-color-secondary-highlight: #0062cc;
+    --pst-color-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0);
+  }
+  
+  html[data-theme="dark"] {
+    --pst-color-primary: hsl(213 31% 91%);
+    --pst-color-secondary: #007bff;
+    --pst-color-secondary-bg: #007bff;
+    --pst-color-accent: #007bff;
+    --sd-color-secondary-highlight: #0062cc;
+    --pst-color-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0);
+  }
+  
+  .bd-header-announcement {
+    color: white;
+  }
+  
+  .bd-header-announcement a {
+    color: white;
+  }
+  
+  .bd-header-announcement a:hover {
+    color: white;
+    text-shadow: 0.5px 0 0 currentColor;
+  }
+  
+  nav.bd-links .current>a  {
+    box-shadow: inset 1px 0 0 var(--pst-color-primary);
+  }
+  
+  html[data-theme="light"] .bd-header {
+    border-bottom: 1px solid var(--pst-color-border);
+  }
+  
+  .admonition, div.admonition {
+    border: 1px solid var(--pst-color-border);
+  }
+  
+  .api-card {
+    text-align: center;
+    font-size: 1.2rem;
+  }
+  
+  .api-card svg {
+    font-size: 2rem;
+  }
+  
+  .search-button-field {
+    border-radius: var(--bs-btn-border-radius);
+  }
+  
+  .bd-content .sd-tab-set .sd-tab-content {
+    border: none;
+    border-top: 3px solid var(--pst-color-border);
+  
+  }
+  .bd-content .sd-tab-set>input:checked+label {
+    border: none;
+    transform: translateY(0);
+    font-weight: 600;
+    border-bottom: 2px solid var(--pst-color-secondary);
+  
+  }
+  .bd-content .sd-tab-set>label {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    border: none;
+  }
+  
+  .center {
+    text-align: center;
+}
+
+.subheader {
+    font-size: 1.5em;
+}
+.hero-title {
+font-size: 60px;
+font-weight: bold;
+margin: 2rem auto 0;
+}
+
+.wip-card {
+border: 1px solid var(--pst-color-success);
+background-color: var(--pst-color-success-bg);
+border-radius: .25rem;
+padding: 0.3rem;
+display: flex;
+justify-content: center;
+align-items: center;
+margin-bottom: 1rem;
+}
+.card-title {
+font-size: 1.2rem;
+font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+.card-title svg {
+font-size: 2rem;
+vertical-align: bottom;
+margin-right: 5px;
+}
+  
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