diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss
index 1d6d43f3..8c5d8a68 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss
@@ -443,57 +443,6 @@ input.ssh_project_url {
   padding: 10px;
 }
 
-.recent_message_parent {
-  img {
-    padding-right:10px;
-  }
-
-  float: left;
-  margin: 0 20px 20px 0px;
-  padding: 5px 0px;;
-  width: 420px;
-
-  &.dash_wall{
-    border-bottom: 2px solid orange;
-    span {
-      background: orange;
-      color:black;
-    }
-  }
-
-  &.dash_issue{
-    border-bottom: 2px solid #ffbbbb;
-    span {
-      background: #ffbbbb;
-    }
-  }
-  &.dash_commit{
-    border-bottom: 2px solid #bbbbff;
-
-    span{
-      background: #bbbbff;
-    }
-  }
-
-  &.dash_snippet{
-    border-bottom: 2px solid #bbffbb;
-
-    span{
-      background: #bbffbb;
-    }
-  }
-
-  span{
-    border: 1px solid #aaa;
-    color:black;
-    padding:1px 4px;
-  }
-
-  h4 {
-    margin-bottom:3px;
-  }
-
-}
 .commit,
 .message{
   .author {
@@ -665,6 +614,8 @@ table.highlighttable pre{
     margin-right:15px;
   }
 }
+.filter .left { margin-right:15px; }
+ 
 
 .cgray { color:gray; }
 .cred { color:#D12F19; }
@@ -721,3 +672,5 @@ body.project-page #notes-list .note span.note-author strong{font-weight: bold; f
     border-bottom: 1px solid #DEE2E3;
   }
 }
+
+.message .note-title p { margin-bottom:0px; }
diff --git a/app/helpers/dashboard_helper.rb b/app/helpers/dashboard_helper.rb
index 0560af5d..03f6a015 100644
--- a/app/helpers/dashboard_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/dashboard_helper.rb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ module DashboardHelper
       when "Commit" then project_commit_path(project, :id => note.noteable_id)
       else wall_project_path(project)
       end
-    else "#" 
+    else wall_project_path(project) 
     end
   rescue 
     "#"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ module DashboardHelper
             when "Note" then markdown(object.note)
             when "Issue" then object.title
             when "Grit::Commit" then object.safe_message
-            else ""
+            else return "Project Wall"
             end
     "[#{object.class.name}] #{truncate(sanitize(title, :tags => []), :length => 60)} "
   end
diff --git a/app/views/dashboard/index.html.haml b/app/views/dashboard/index.html.haml
index eb2122df..8d48d1f7 100644
--- a/app/views/dashboard/index.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/dashboard/index.html.haml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
       .project-box.project-updates.ui-box.ui-box-small.ui-box-big
         %h3= project.name
         .data
-          - project.updates.each do |update|
+          - project.updates(4).each do |update|
             %a.project-update{:href => dashboard_feed_path(project, update)}
               = image_tag gravatar_icon(update.author_email), :class => "left", :width => 40
               %span.update-title
@@ -34,7 +34,5 @@
                 = time_ago_in_words(update.created_at) 
                 ago
             %br
-            / .project-update
-      / .project-updates
   / #news-feed
 / #dashboard-content
diff --git a/app/views/projects/_recent_commits.html.haml b/app/views/projects/_recent_commits.html.haml
index b34470d6..385fa4b6 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/_recent_commits.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/_recent_commits.html.haml
@@ -1,18 +1,33 @@
-- @commits.each do |commit|
-  %div.commit
-    - if commit.author.email
-      = image_tag gravatar_icon(commit.author.email), :class => "left", :width => 40, :style => "padding-right:5px;"
-    - else
-      = image_tag "no_avatar.png", :class => "left", :width => 40, :style => "padding-right:5px;"
-    %p{:style => "margin-bottom: 3px;"}
-      %strong
-        = link_to truncate(commit.safe_message, :length => 60), project_commit_path(@project, :id => commit.id)
-
-    %span
-      %span.author
-        = commit.author.name.force_encoding("UTF-8")
-      %cite
-        = time_ago_in_words(commit.committed_date)
-        ago
-  %br
+%table
+  %thead
+    %th
+      Commits
+      .filter.right
+        = form_tag project_path(@project), :method => :get, :class => "right" do
+          .left
+            = radio_button_tag :view, "recent", (params[:view] || "recent") == "recent", :onclick => "this.form.submit()", :id => "recent_view"
+            = label_tag "recent_view","Recent"
+          .left
+            = radio_button_tag :view, "day", params[:view] == "day", :onclick => "this.form.submit()", :id => "day_view"
+            = label_tag "day_view","Today"
+          .left
+            = radio_button_tag :view, "week", params[:view] == "week", :onclick => "this.form.submit()", :id => "week_view"
+            = label_tag "week_view","Week"
+  - @commits.each do |commit|
+    %tr
+      %td
+        %div.commit
+          - if commit.author.email
+            = image_tag gravatar_icon(commit.author.email), :class => "left", :width => 40, :style => "padding-right:5px;"
+          - else
+            = image_tag "no_avatar.png", :class => "left", :width => 40, :style => "padding-right:5px;"
+          %p{:style => "margin-bottom: 3px;"}
+            %strong
+              = link_to truncate(commit.safe_message, :length => fixed_mode? ? 40 : 100), project_commit_path(@project, :id => commit.id)
 
+          %span
+            %span.note-author
+              %strong= commit.author.name.force_encoding("UTF-8")
+            %cite.cgray
+              = time_ago_in_words(commit.committed_date)
+              ago
diff --git a/app/views/projects/_recent_messages.html.haml b/app/views/projects/_recent_messages.html.haml
index e5fb28b9..00052963 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/_recent_messages.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/_recent_messages.html.haml
@@ -3,50 +3,25 @@
   - parent = load_note_parent(id, type, @project)
   - next unless parent
 
-  - case type
-  - when "Issue"
-    - css_class = "dash_issue"
-    - issue = parent
-    - item_code = issue.author.email
-    - link_item_name = truncate(issue.title, :length => 50)
-    - link_to_item = project_issue_path(@project, issue)
-  - when "Snippet"
-    - css_class = "dash_snippet"
-    - item_code = parent.author.email
-    - link_item_name = parent.title
-    - link_to_item = project_snippet_path(@project, parent)
-  - when "Commit"
-    - css_class = "dash_commit"
-    - commit = parent
-    - item_code = commit.author.email
-    - link_item_name = truncate(commit.safe_message, :length => 50)
-    - link_to_item = project_commit_path(@project, :id => commit.id)
-  - else
-    - css_class = "dash_wall"
-    - item_code = @project.name
-    - link_item_name = "Project Wall"
-    - link_to_item = wall_project_path(@project)
-
-  %div{ :class => "recent_message_parent #{css_class}"}
-    = image_tag gravatar_icon(item_code), :class => "left", :width => 40
-    %h4
-      = link_to(link_item_name, link_to_item)
-    %span
-      = type
-  .clear
-  - notes.sort {|x,y| x.updated_at <=> y.updated_at }.each do |note|
-    %div.message
-      = image_tag gravatar_icon(note.author.email), :class => "left", :width => 24, :style => "padding-right:5px;"
-      %p{:style => "margin-bottom: 3px;"}
-        %span.author
-          = note.author.name
-        = link_to markdown(truncate(note.note, :length => 200)), link_to_item + "#note_#{note.id}"
-        - if note.attachment.url
-          %br
-          Attachment:
-          = link_to note.attachment_identifier, note.attachment.url
-          %br
-    %br
-  .append-bottom
-    &nbsp;
-  .clear
+  %table
+    %thead
+      %th
+        %div{ :class => "recent_message_parent"}
+          = link_to(truncate(dashboard_feed_title(parent), :length => fixed_mode? ? 40 : 100 ), dashboard_feed_path(@project, parent))
+    - notes.sort {|x,y| y.updated_at <=> x.updated_at }.each do |note|
+      %tr
+        %td
+          %div.message
+            = image_tag gravatar_icon(note.author_email), :class => "left", :width => 40, :style => "padding-right:5px;"
+            %div.note-author
+              %strong= note.author_name
+              %cite.cgray
+                = time_ago_in_words(note.updated_at)
+                ago
+            %div.note-title
+              = link_to markdown(truncate(note.note, :length => fixed_mode? ? 40 : 100)), dashboard_feed_path(@project, parent) + "#note_#{note.id}"
+              - if note.attachment.url
+                %br
+                Attachment:
+                = link_to note.attachment_identifier, note.attachment.url
+  %br
diff --git a/app/views/projects/show.html.haml b/app/views/projects/show.html.haml
index ff352437..f693cb9d 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/show.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/show.html.haml
@@ -1,28 +1,11 @@
-%div
-  %h2.left History
-  .right
-    = form_tag project_path(@project), :method => :get do
-      .span-2
-        = radio_button_tag :view, "recent", (params[:view] || "recent") == "recent", :onclick => "this.form.submit()", :id => "recent_view"
-        = label_tag "recent_view","Recent"
-      .span-2
-        = radio_button_tag :view, "day", params[:view] == "day", :onclick => "this.form.submit()", :id => "day_view"
-        = label_tag "day_view","Today"
-      .span-2
-        = radio_button_tag :view, "week", params[:view] == "week", :onclick => "this.form.submit()", :id => "week_view"
-        = label_tag "week_view","Week"
-  .clear
-  %hr
 .left.width-49p
-  %h3 Commits
   =render "projects/recent_commits"
 
 .right.width-49p
-  %h3 Talk
   =render "projects/recent_messages"
 
 :javascript
   function updateDashboard(){
-    $('#content-container').load("#{escape_javascript(project_path(@project))} #content-container>*");
+    $('.project-content').load("#{escape_javascript(project_path(@project))} .project-content>*");
   }
   setInterval("updateDashboard()", 300000);
diff --git a/spec/requests/issues_spec.rb b/spec/requests/issues_spec.rb
index 0dda659b..235b0b22 100644
--- a/spec/requests/issues_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/issues_spec.rb
@@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ describe "Issues" do
     it "should have valid show page for issue" do
       page.should have_content @issue.title
       page.should have_content @user.name
-      page.should have_content "today"
     end
   end