diff --git a/app/controllers/public/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/public/projects_controller.rb
index e53c1a48..28f46c6f 100644
--- a/app/controllers/public/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/public/projects_controller.rb
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ class Public::ProjectsController < ApplicationController
   layout 'public'
 
   def index
-    @projects = Project.where(public: true)
+    @projects = Project.public
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/models/project.rb b/app/models/project.rb
index ece7da26..a826e04e 100644
--- a/app/models/project.rb
+++ b/app/models/project.rb
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
   scope :sorted_by_activity, ->() { order("(SELECT max(events.created_at) FROM events WHERE events.project_id = projects.id) DESC") }
   scope :personal, ->(user) { where(namespace_id: user.namespace_id) }
   scope :joined, ->(user) { where("namespace_id != ?", user.namespace_id) }
+  scope :public, where(public: true)
 
   class << self
     def active
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/_head.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/_head.html.haml
index 9d035f0e..4b4f5da3 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/_head.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/_head.html.haml
@@ -6,12 +6,14 @@
   = favicon_link_tag 'favicon.ico'
   = stylesheet_link_tag    "application"
   = javascript_include_tag "application"
-  -# Atom feed
-  - if controller_name == 'projects' && action_name == 'index'
-    = auto_discovery_link_tag :atom, projects_url(:atom, private_token: current_user.private_token), title: "Dashboard feed"
-  - if @project && !@project.new_record?
-    - if current_controller?(:tree, :commits)
-      = auto_discovery_link_tag(:atom, project_commits_url(@project, @ref, format: :atom, private_token: current_user.private_token), title: "Recent commits to #{@project.name}:#{@ref}")
-    - if current_controller?(:issues)
-      = auto_discovery_link_tag(:atom, project_issues_url(@project, :atom, private_token: current_user.private_token), title: "#{@project.name} issues")
   = csrf_meta_tags
+
+  -# Atom feed
+  - if current_user
+    - if controller_name == 'projects' && action_name == 'index'
+      = auto_discovery_link_tag :atom, projects_url(:atom, private_token: current_user.private_token), title: "Dashboard feed"
+    - if @project && !@project.new_record?
+      - if current_controller?(:tree, :commits)
+        = auto_discovery_link_tag(:atom, project_commits_url(@project, @ref, format: :atom, private_token: current_user.private_token), title: "Recent commits to #{@project.name}:#{@ref}")
+      - if current_controller?(:issues)
+        = auto_discovery_link_tag(:atom, project_issues_url(@project, :atom, private_token: current_user.private_token), title: "#{@project.name} issues")
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/public.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/public.html.haml
index e82459c1..864b854c 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/public.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/public.html.haml
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 !!! 5
 %html{ lang: "en"}
-  = render "layouts/head", title: "Error"
+  = render "layouts/head", title: "Public Area"
   %body{class: "#{app_theme} application"}
     %header.navbar.navbar-static-top.navbar-gitlab
       .navbar-inner
         .container
           %div.app_logo
             %span.separator
-            = link_to public_root_path, class: "home" do
+            = link_to root_path, class: "home" do
               %h1 GITLAB
             %span.separator
-          %h1.project_name Public
+            %h1.project_name Public Area
     .container
       .content
         .prepend-top-20
diff --git a/app/views/public/projects/index.html.haml b/app/views/public/projects/index.html.haml
index ba4fd726..fceb4817 100644
--- a/app/views/public/projects/index.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/public/projects/index.html.haml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   %small Read-Only Access
 %hr
 
-%ul.well-list
+%ul.unstyled
   - @projects.each do |project|
     %li.clearfix
       %h5