diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/common.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/common.scss
index 50dd6e4e4e7..8c76b4baa22 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/common.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/common.scss
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ img.emoji {
   height: 220px;
 }
 
-.search-container {
+.navless-container {
   margin-top: 30px;
 }
 
diff --git a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
index e202ed3234e..f2dbc519797 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ class ProjectsController < ProjectResourceController
   before_filter :authorize_admin_project!, only: [:edit, :update, :destroy, :transfer]
   before_filter :require_non_empty_project, only: [:blob, :tree, :graph]
 
-  layout 'application', only: [:new, :create]
+  layout 'navless', only: [:new, :create]
+  before_filter :set_title, only: [:new, :create]
 
   def new
     @project = Project.new
@@ -105,4 +106,10 @@ class ProjectsController < ProjectResourceController
       format.json { render :json => @suggestions }
     end
   end
+
+  private
+
+  def set_title
+    @title = 'New Project'
+  end
 end
diff --git a/app/controllers/users_controller.rb b/app/controllers/users_controller.rb
index e027057fe65..4947c33f959 100644
--- a/app/controllers/users_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/users_controller.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 class UsersController < ApplicationController
+  layout 'navless'
+
   def show
     @user = User.find_by_username!(params[:username])
     @projects = @user.authorized_projects.where('projects.id in (?)', current_user.authorized_projects.map(&:id))
     @events = @user.recent_events.where(project_id: @projects.map(&:id)).limit(20)
+
+    @title = @user.name
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/navless.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/navless.html.haml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..47dece4a091
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/layouts/navless.html.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+!!! 5
+%html{ lang: "en"}
+  = render "layouts/head", title: @title
+  %body{class: "#{app_theme} application"}
+    = render "layouts/head_panel", title: @title
+    = render "layouts/flash"
+
+    .container.navless-container
+      .content
+        = yield
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/public.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/public.html.haml
index 435250b6825..5a3bb4abe66 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/public.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/public.html.haml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
               %h1 GITLAB
             %span.separator
           %h1.project_name Public Projects
-    .container
+    .container.navless-container
       .content
-        .prepend-top-20
-          = yield
+        = yield
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/search.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/search.html.haml
index 01da8f1c53b..fbea9d441d9 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/search.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/search.html.haml
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
     = render "layouts/head_panel", title: "Search"
     = render "layouts/flash"
 
-    .container.search-container
+    .container.navless-container
       .content
         = yield
diff --git a/app/views/projects/new.html.haml b/app/views/projects/new.html.haml
index e9099f264bc..0754ee83114 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/new.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/new.html.haml
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 .project-edit-container
-  %h3.page_title New Project
-  %hr
   .project-edit-errors
     = render 'projects/errors'
   .project-edit-content