diff --git a/docs/_layouts/default.html b/docs/_layouts/default.html
index fb11a83..a8969c4 100644
--- a/docs/_layouts/default.html
+++ b/docs/_layouts/default.html
@@ -18,13 +18,11 @@
     <header class="page-header" role="banner">
       <h1 class="project-name">{{ page.title | default: site.title | default: site.github.repository_name }}</h1>
       <h2 class="project-tagline">{{ page.description | default: site.description | default: site.github.project_tagline }}</h2>
-      {% if site.github.is_project_page %}
-        <a href="{{ site.github.repository_url }}" class="btn">View on GitHub</a>
-      {% endif %}
-      {% if site.show_downloads %}
-        <a href="{{ site.github.zip_url }}" class="btn">Download .zip</a>
-        <a href="{{ site.github.tar_url }}" class="btn">Download .tar.gz</a>
-      {% endif %}
+    {% if page.children %}
+      {% for child in page.children %}
+        <a class="btn" href="{{ child.url | relative_url }}">{{ child.title }}</a>
+      {% endfor %}
+    {% endif %}
     </header>
 
     <main id="content" class="main-content" role="main">
diff --git a/docs/blog.md b/docs/blog.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a938d8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/blog.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+layout: default
+title: Blog
+description: This is just another page
+children:
+  - title: Home
+    url: /
+  - title: Talks and slides
+    url: talks-and-slides
+---
+
+This will be the blog!
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 015471a..328fe7c 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 ---
 layout: default
+title: Valeria Salis
+description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
+  Software developer, public speaker and meetup organizer.  I like talking to computers as much as I like talking to people.
+children:
+  - title: Blog
+    url: blog
+  - title: Talks and slides
+    url: talks-and-slides
 ---
 
 Text can be **bold**, _italic_, or ~~strikethrough~~.