diff --git a/scss/main.scss b/scss/main.scss
index e4fec7f8c7500edeb696d1c20d2467f56ef6c18e..d72a24342c91efbc2488a0d578888b3259c9e59d 100644
--- a/scss/main.scss
+++ b/scss/main.scss
@@ -16,11 +16,3 @@   input {
     font-family: $font-family-monospace;
   }
 }
-
-// Compact grid for the database list on user and dashboard pages.
-.repo-list {
-  display: grid;
-  grid-template-columns: 1fr auto;
-  grid-gap: 0.25rem 1rem;
-  align-items: baseline;
-}
diff --git a/web/templates.go b/web/templates.go
index 12c254456adae7a0c52ab0736a5f6f258601b178..14becc6942c0ac9881da9959bd901f8a1c9dbc42 100644
--- a/web/templates.go
+++ b/web/templates.go
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ 		"abstime": func(t time.Time) string { return t.UTC().Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05 UTC") },
 		// humansize renders a byte count as a human-readable size.
 		"humansize": humanizeSize,
 		"upper":     strings.ToUpper,
+		"lower":     strings.ToLower,
 		// inc/dec support 1-based page arithmetic in pagination links.
 		"inc": func(n int) int { return n + 1 },
 		"dec": func(n int) int { return n - 1 },
diff --git a/web/templates/index.html b/web/templates/index.html
index db1229ce42672ae38917617037d8b4c1cb797e6f..d65bdd79b2003defd72b428db18201a7b014e5bc 100644
--- a/web/templates/index.html
+++ b/web/templates/index.html
@@ -1,14 +1,27 @@
 {{define "content" -}}
 {{if .CurrentUser}}
 <div class="row">
+  <div class="col-md-4">
+    <p>
+      Welcome back, {{.CurrentUser.Username}}! This is your Dolt database
+      hosting service: <code>dolt clone</code>, <code>push</code> and
+      <code>pull</code> over HTTPS, with a web UI for browsing branches,
+      commits and tables.
+    </p>
+    <a href="/create" class="btn btn-primary btn-block"
+      >Create new database {{icon "caret-right"}}</a>
+    <a href="/settings/keys" class="btn btn-default btn-block"
+      >Configure dolt credentials {{icon "caret-right"}}</a>
+  </div>
   <div class="col-md-8">
-    <h2>Your databases</h2>
-  </div>
-  <div class="col-md-4 text-right">
-    <a href="/create" class="btn btn-primary">{{icon "plus-square"}} Create database</a>
+    <hr class="d-md-none" />
+    {{template "repoList" .Repos}}
+    {{if .Repos}}
+    <a href="/~{{.CurrentUser.Username}}" class="btn btn-default pull-right"
+      >More on your profile {{icon "caret-right"}}</a>
+    {{end}}
   </div>
 </div>
-{{template "repoList" .Repos}}
 {{else}}
 <div class="header-extension"></div>
 <h2>{{.SiteName}} <span class="text-danger">{{.SiteLabel}}</span></h2>
diff --git a/web/templates/partials.html b/web/templates/partials.html
index 1b206621023215d308d2298ebd41bb484829bacc..f1adad12e7a019f58d178fc6cc35c67377c7bd8c 100644
--- a/web/templates/partials.html
+++ b/web/templates/partials.html
@@ -38,13 +38,19 @@ {{- end}}
 
 {{define "repoList" -}}
 {{if .}}
-<div class="repo-list">
+<div class="event-list">
   {{range .}}
-  <span>
-    <a href="/~{{.OwnerName}}/{{.Name}}">~{{.OwnerName}}/{{.Name}}</a>
-    {{template "visibilityBadge" .Visibility}}
-  </span>
-  <span class="text-muted">{{.Description}}</span>
+  <div class="event">
+    <h4>
+      <a href="/~{{.OwnerName}}/{{.Name}}">~{{.OwnerName}}/{{.Name}}</a>
+      {{if ne (printf "%s" .Visibility) "PUBLIC"}}
+      <small class="pull-right">{{lower (printf "%s" .Visibility)}}</small>
+      {{end}}
+    </h4>
+    {{if .Description}}
+    <p>{{.Description}}</p>
+    {{end}}
+  </div>
   {{end}}
 </div>
 {{else}}