diff --git a/src/root/layout.tt b/src/root/layout.tt
index fb4a2531..074e4809 100644
--- a/src/root/layout.tt
+++ b/src/root/layout.tt
@@ -65,28 +65,24 @@
     </div>
 
     <div class="container">
-
       [% IF flashMsg %]
-        <br />
         <div class="alert alert-info">[% flashMsg %]</div>
       [% END %]
 
       [% IF successMsg %]
-        <br />
         <div class="alert alert-success">[% successMsg %]</div>
       [% END %]
 
       [% IF errorMsg %]
-        <br />
         <div class="alert alert-warning">Error: [% errorMsg %]</div>
       [% END %]
 
       [% IF !hideHeader %]
         <div class="page-header">
-          <h1><small>[% IF c.user_exists && starUri; INCLUDE makeStar; " "; END; HTML.escape(title) %]</small></h1>
+          [% IF c.user_exists && starUri; INCLUDE makeStar; " "; END; HTML.escape(title) %]
         </div>
       [% ELSE %]
-        <br />
+        [% IF first %]<br />[% first = 0; END; %]
       [% END %]
 
       [% content %]
diff --git a/src/root/static/css/hydra.css b/src/root/static/css/hydra.css
index 4fac2c3c..b369f3e0 100644
--- a/src/root/static/css/hydra.css
+++ b/src/root/static/css/hydra.css
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
     body {
         padding-top: 40px;
     }
+    div.alert {
+        margin-top: 1em;
+    }
 }
 
 .logo {
@@ -68,16 +71,13 @@ h3 {
 }
 
 div.page-header {
-    margin-top: 0em;
+    margin-top: 1em;
     margin-bottom: 1em;
-}
-
-div.page-header h1 {
-    margin-bottom: 0em;
-}
-
-div.page-header h1 small {
-    font-size: 45%;
+    padding-top: 0em;
+    padding-bottom: 0.5em;
+    color: #999999;
+    font-size: 123.809%;
+    font-weight: normal;
 }
 
 .shell-prompt {