# Gitea as small self-contained site?

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-as-small-self-contained-site/1176>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 21, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-as-small-self-contained-site/1176 "2019-05-21T17:27:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![jcw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/jcw/32/534_2.png) [@jcw](https://forum.gitea.com/u/jcw)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-as-small-self-contained-site/1176/1 "2019-05-21T17:27:42Z")

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I’ve been using Gitea for some time - self-hosted, a single user account, no organisations. It works really well for me. Thanks for making this possible.

Now, I’m considering using gitea as my _main_ website. The landing page is more or less ok in this context, once you configure it to “explore”.

But perhaps things could be streamlined a bit further - some thoughts:

- remove the “Organizations” tab when none are present
- remove the “Users” tab when only a single one exists
- then, as there’s no tabbing left: remove the “Repositories” tab as well?

In short: I’m looking for a way to make the “landing experience” as clear as possible. Maybe I’m going about this all wrong, but since there’s no way to present a small set of static pages (one of the project wiki’s as landing page?), I don’t know how to further adjust the way first time visitors will find their way around. Or is there some way to present a modest Markdown blurb at the top of the repositories list on the Explore page?

I’d appreciate tips and pointers if there are better ways to do this.

-jcw

**UPDATE** - I found a solution for my “remove tabs” comments in [this thread](https://forum.gitea.com/t/hiding-users-from-public-view/112/4). In short: create `custom/templates/explore/navbar.tmpl`, with the text “`<div></div>`” in it (empty did not work), And now the tabs are gone, I _think_ without any ill side effects. This could perhaps also be the place to add a bit of manually crafted HTML to welcome new visitors, etc.