diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index cd7f614..680f173 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-name: Template webpage
-url: hhttps://github.com/iyzhang/template-www
+name: Awesome Research Group
+url: http://awesome.example.com
 
 exclude: [bibble, README.md, Makefile]
 
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ markdown: redcarpet
 redcarpet:
     extensions: [smart, tables]
 
-# colorize code snippets with the pygment module
+# colorize code snippets with the pygments module
 pygments: true
 
 # The path structure for blog posts.
diff --git a/_data/news.yml b/_data/news.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 56f2c56..0000000
--- a/_data/news.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-- Some very old news!
diff --git a/htaccess b/htaccess
deleted file mode 100644
index 47d9a57..0000000
--- a/htaccess
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: none
-permalink: .htaccess
----
-ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
-RewriteEngine on
-RewriteBase {{ site.base }}/
-{% for item in site.redirects %}
-{% assign oldname=item[0] %}
-{% assign path=item[1] %}
-RewriteRule ^sampa/{{ oldname | replace: '(', '\(' | replace: ')', '\)' }} /{{ path }} [L,R=301]
-{% endfor %}
diff --git a/oldnews.html b/oldnews.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 3105ca6..0000000
--- a/oldnews.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: default
-title: Older News
----
-{% for item in site.data.news %}
-    <p>{{ item | markdownify }}</p>
-{% endfor %}