diff --git a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/WEB-INF/web.xml b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/WEB-INF/web.xml
index c5e7c7381b8565920988ba7607cf0d319cb2eb37..5d426f413e5c4ffb74dc6d098bf6187401a24fbd 100644
--- a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     </servlet>
     <servlet-mapping>
         <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
-        <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
+        <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>
     <session-config>
         <session-timeout>
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
         </session-timeout>
     </session-config>
     <welcome-file-list>
-        <welcome-file>faces/index.xhtml</welcome-file>
+        <welcome-file>index.xhtml</welcome-file>
     </welcome-file-list>
 </web-app>
diff --git a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/index.xhtml b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/index.xhtml
index ae4c3713ee9f411313b1650e1c8439eabc0377d0..4f1c258efa1140856622f91d2e869d0a23a4aea0 100644
--- a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/index.xhtml
+++ b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/index.xhtml
@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
       xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html">
-    <h:head>
-        <title>Facelet Title</title>
-        <h:outputStylesheet name="css/jsfcrud.css"/>
-    </h:head>
     <h:body>
-        Hello from Facelets
+       <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=views/home.xhtml"/>    
     </h:body>
 </html>
 
diff --git a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/resources/css/portal.css b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/resources/css/portal.css
index 3b1ac1361852be76840c017705963ae78b491dd8..e26007c802a62e80f7154106398d0ebc1c307524 100644
--- a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/resources/css/portal.css
+++ b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/resources/css/portal.css
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 body {
-    background-color: #f2f4f7;
+    background-color: #b2d5d6;
     font-size: 12px;
     font-family: Verdana, "Verdana CE",  Arial, "Arial CE", "Lucida Grande CE", lucida, "Helvetica CE", sans-serif;
     color: #000000;
diff --git a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/templates/contentViewTemplate4x3.xhtml b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/templates/contentViewTemplate4x3.xhtml
index 4519d47c05a44a0d1b9a1d215fb3df06b77211cf..08393f72b5101bfbcea7595448961a53248208be 100644
--- a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/templates/contentViewTemplate4x3.xhtml
+++ b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/templates/contentViewTemplate4x3.xhtml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         <div id="top" class="topContent">
             <div id="topLeft" class="topLeftContent">
                 <ui:insert name="topLeft">
-                    <h:graphicImage alt="ANL Logo" url="../../resources/images/AnlLogo167x75.png"/>
+                    <h:graphicImage alt="ANL Logo" url="/resources/images/AnlLogo167x75.png"/>
                 </ui:insert>
             </div>
             <div>
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@
                         <ui:insert name="menuCenter">
                             <h:form prependId="false">
                                 <p:menubar>
-                                    <p:menuitem value="Home" url="/faces/views/home.xhtml" icon="ui-icon-home"/>
-                                    <p:menuitem value="Experiment Types" url="/faces/views/experimentType/list.xhtml"/>
-                                    <p:menuitem value="Users" url="/faces/views/userInfo/list.xhtml"/>
+                                    <p:menuitem value="Home" url="/views/home.xhtml" icon="ui-icon-home"/>
+                                    <p:menuitem value="Experiment Types" url="/views/experimentType/list.xhtml"/>
+                                    <p:menuitem value="Users" url="/views/userInfo/list.xhtml"/>
                                     <p:menuitem value="Login" onclick="loginDialog.show()" rendered="#{!loginController.loggedIn}" icon="ui-icon-person"/>
                                     <p:menuitem value="Logout" action="#{loginController.logout()}" rendered="#{loginController.loggedIn}" icon="ui-icon-close"/>                                </p:menubar>
                             </h:form>
@@ -113,4 +113,4 @@
         </h:form>
     </h:body>
 
-</html>
+</html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/templates/homeViewTemplate.xhtml b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/templates/homeViewTemplate.xhtml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..334daabd2a081729180d78a44bc25451dbb45128
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/templates/homeViewTemplate.xhtml
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
+      xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
+      xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
+      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
+      xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core">
+
+    <h:head>
+        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
+        <link href="../resources/css/portal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
+<!--        <link href="../../resources/css/portal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />-->
+        <title>Data Management System Portal</title>
+    </h:head>
+
+    <h:body>
+
+        <div id="top" class="topContent">
+            <div id="topLeft" class="topLeftContent">
+                <ui:insert name="topLeft">
+                    <h:graphicImage alt="ANL Logo" url="/resources/images/AnlLogo167x75.png"/>
+                </ui:insert>
+            </div>
+            <div>
+                <div id="topRight" class="topRightContent">
+                    <ui:insert name="topRight">
+                        <h:outputText value="Username: #{loginController.displayUsername()}"/>
+                        <br/>
+
+                        <h:outputText value="Role: #{loginController.displayRole()}"/>
+
+                    </ui:insert>
+                </div>
+                <div id="topCenter" class="topCenterContent">
+                    <ui:insert name="topCenter">
+                        <h1>Data Management System Portal</h1>
+                    </ui:insert>
+                </div>
+            </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <ui:fragment>
+            <div id="menu" class="menuContent">
+                <div id="menuLeft" class="menuLeftContent">
+                    <ui:insert name="menuLeft">
+                        <p:menubar/>
+                    </ui:insert>
+                </div>
+                <div>
+                    <div id="menuRight" class="menuRightContent">
+                        <ui:insert name="menuRight">
+                        </ui:insert>
+                    </div>
+                    <div id="menuCenter" class="menuCenterContent">
+                        <ui:insert name="menuCenter">
+                            <h:form prependId="false">
+                                <p:menubar>
+                                    <p:menuitem value="Home" url="/views/home.xhtml" icon="ui-icon-home"/>
+                                    <p:menuitem value="Experiment Types" url="/views/experimentType/list.xhtml"/>
+                                    <p:menuitem value="Users" url="/views/userInfo/list.xhtml"/>
+                                    <p:menuitem value="Login" onclick="loginDialog.show()" rendered="#{!loginController.loggedIn}" icon="ui-icon-person"/>
+                                    <p:menuitem value="Logout" action="#{loginController.logout()}" rendered="#{loginController.loggedIn}" icon="ui-icon-close"/>                                </p:menubar>
+                            </h:form>
+                        </ui:insert>
+                    </div>
+                </div>
+            </div>
+
+            <div id="middle" class="middleContent">
+                <div id="middleLeft" class="middleLeftContent">
+                    <ui:insert name="middleLeft">
+                    </ui:insert>
+                </div>
+                <div>
+                    <div id="middleRight" class="middleRightContent">
+                        <ui:insert name="middleRight">
+                        </ui:insert>
+                    </div>
+                    <div id="middleCenter" class="middleCenterContent">
+                        <ui:insert name="middleCenter">
+                        </ui:insert>
+                    </div>
+                </div>
+            </div>
+        </ui:fragment>
+
+        <ui:fragment>
+            <div id="bottom" class="bottomContent">
+                <ui:insert name="bottom">
+                    <h:form prependId="false">
+                        <p:growl id="messages" showDetail="true" autoUpdate="true"/>
+                    </h:form>
+                </ui:insert>
+            </div>
+        </ui:fragment>
+
+        <h:form id="loginForm">
+            <p:dialog id="loginDialog" styleClass="dialog" header="Login" widgetVar="loginDialog">
+                <h:panelGrid styleClass="loginInput">
+                    <div class="dialog">
+                        <div>
+                            <p:inputText id="username" value="#{loginController.username}" title="Username"/>
+                            <p:watermark for="username" value="Username"/>
+                            <p:password id="password" value="#{loginController.password}" title="Password"/>
+                            <p:watermark for="password" value="Password"/>
+                        </div>
+
+                        <f:facet name="footer">
+                            <p:commandButton id="loginButton" value="Login" action="#{loginController.login}" oncomplete="loginDialog.hide()"/>
+                        </f:facet>
+                    </div>
+                </h:panelGrid>
+            </p:dialog>
+        </h:form>
+    </h:body>
+
+</html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/views/home.xhtml b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/views/home.xhtml
index 320a192381592e22c97e640d21370cc3f28cc7b8..dc831f7e9854fbb5373643311278579b70223caa 100644
--- a/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/views/home.xhtml
+++ b/src/java/DmWebPortal/web/views/home.xhtml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
                 xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
                 xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core">
 
-    <ui:composition template="../templates/contentViewTemplate4x3.xhtml">
+    <ui:composition template="../templates/homeViewTemplate.xhtml">
         <ui:define name="middleCenter">
 
             <div class="homePage">