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diff --git a/app/controllers/main_controller.rb b/app/controllers/main_controller.rb
index 58db3772..1164d42e 100644
--- a/app/controllers/main_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/main_controller.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class MainController < ApplicationController
     respond_to do |format|
         format.html { 
           if !authenticated?
-            render 'main/home', layout: "info"
+            render 'main/home'
           else 
             render 'maps/activemaps'
           end
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/info.html.erb b/app/views/layouts/info.html.erb
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index d42eaba9..00000000
--- a/app/views/layouts/info.html.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,161 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html>
-<head>
-<meta charset="UTF-8">
-<title>Metamaps</title>
-</head>
-
-<style>
-  body {
-    margin:0;
-    padding:0;
-  }
-
-  .center {
-    width: 1024px;
-    margin: 0 auto;
-  }
-
-  .splash {
-    background: url(<%= asset_path 'splash_bg.png' %>) no-repeat 0 0;
-    height: 399px;
-    text-align: center; 
-  }
-
-  .splash h2 {
-    font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;
-    color: #FFFFFF;
-    font-size: 48px;
-    padding: 120px 0 20px 0;
-    margin: 0;
-    text-shadow: 2px 2px #444;
-  }
-
-  .splash button {
-    border: none;
-    height: 40px;
-    width: 160px;
-    outline: none;
-    padding: 0 18px;
-    -webkit-box-shadow: none;
-    box-shadow: none;
-    vertical-align: top;
-    color: #FFF;
-    margin: 10px;
-    cursor: pointer;
-    display: inline-block;
-    font-size: 16px;
-    line-height: 16px;
-    text-align: center;
-    text-decoration: none;
-    -webkit-border-radius: 2px;
-    border-radius: 2px;
-    -webkit-user-select: none;
-    font-family: helvetica, sans-serif;
-    -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit;
-    box-shadow: 0px 1px 1.5px rgba(0,0,0,0.12), 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.24);
-  }
-
-  .button--blue {
-    background-color: #4fb5c0;
-  }
-  .button--purple {
-    background-color: #a354cd;
-  }
-  .button--blue:hover {
-    background-color: #419599;
-  }
-  .button--purple:hover {
-    background-color: #9150bc;
-  }
-
-  .section {
-    margin: 60px 0;
-  }
-
-  .graph {
-    background: url(<%= asset_path 'big_picture.png' %>) no-repeat 0 0;
-    height: 399px;
-  }
-
-  .code {
-    background: url(<%= asset_path 'metamaps_code.png' %>) no-repeat 0 -239px;
-    height: 399px;
-  }
-
-  .rich_media {
-    background: url(<%= asset_path 'rich_media.png' %>) no-repeat 0 0;
-    height: 403px;
-  }
-
-  .connected {
-    background: url(<%= asset_path 'connected.png' %>) no-repeat 0 0;
-    height: 600px;
-    background-size: contain;
-  }
-
-  .junto {
-    background: url(<%= asset_path 'junto_screen.png' %>) no-repeat top right;
-    background-size: contain;
-    height: 399px;
-  }
-
-  .slack {
-    background: url(<%= asset_path 'slack.png' %>) no-repeat top right;
-    background-size: contain;
-    height: 399px;
-  }
-
-  h3 {
-    font-family: helvetica, sans-serif;
-    font-size: 30px;
-    text-align: center;
-    color: #565656;
-  }
-
-  .junto h3 {
-    width: 500px;
-  }
-
-  .slack h3 {
-    width: 400px;
-  }
-
-  .rich_media h3 {
-    width: 500px;
-    float: right;
-  }
-
-</style>
-
-<body>
-
-  <div class="center">
-    <div class="splash">
-      <h2>make sense with metamaps</h2>
-      <button class="button--blue" href="/request">Request Invite</button>
-      <button class="button--purple" href="/login">Log In</button>
-    </div>
-    <div class="section junto">
-     <h3>capture all the ideas coming up in live video conversations</h3> 
-    </div>
-    <h3>see for yourself how things are connected<br> and how connected things are</h3> 
-    <div class="section connected">
-    </div>
-    <div class="section rich_media">
-      <h3>attach links, images, audio, or video to your thoughts</h3> 
-    </div>
-    <h3>zoom out and see the big picture</h3> 
-    <div class="section graph">
-    </div>
-    <div class="section slack">
-      <h3>use @metamapper (our slackbot) to capture thoughts from slack on your phone, web, or desktop</h3> 
-    </div>
-    <h3>want metamaps to do something different? we're open source, fork it.</h3> 
-    <div class="section code">
-    </div>
-    <h3>we won't tell you what to do with metamaps, get creative :)</h3>
-  </div>
-</body>
-
-</html>
