diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 86fceae7af4fb5a8de2c3c125e7f9a64c3ffbe0c..eca6c38b084168afc3ce5f1c919a8b50139fe3d7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@
 /libpeerconnection.log
 npm-debug.log
 testem.log
+makefile
+.idea/
diff --git a/app/router.js b/app/router.js
index b1d0e174dce7c8f27402026b2055cb9927105707..931713e3527cfe27e9609bc1bac9abcf1673e351 100644
--- a/app/router.js
+++ b/app/router.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const Router = Ember.Router.extend({
 });
 
 Router.map(function() {
+  this.route('index', { path: '/' });
   this.route('reconstruction');
 });
 
diff --git a/app/templates/index.hbs b/app/templates/index.hbs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bba476cf7546bba57d504754d6c8773cd2463b67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/templates/index.hbs
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<div class="clearfix mxn2">
+    <div class="col-8 px2 mx-auto">
+        <div class="white p4">
+            {{#link-to "reconstruction" class="btn white bg-silver border p4 py2"}}
+                <i class="fa fa-terminal" aria-hidden="true"></i> Reconstruction
+            {{/link-to}}
+        </div>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+{{outlet}}
diff --git a/config/environment.js b/config/environment.js
index cd95840b6ecfa6627362831a957ae9a2401ab493..32b9949cb8e44e7e2691a647431fbc77b99cd27b 100644
--- a/config/environment.js
+++ b/config/environment.js
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ module.exports = function(environment) {
   };
 
   if (environment === 'development') {
-    ENV.APP.websocketsURL = 'ws://localhost:6930/reconstruction';
-    ENV.APP.staticURL = 'http://localhost:6930/data/';
-    ENV.APP.APIURL = 'http://localhost:6930';
+    ENV.APP.websocketsURL = '';
+    ENV.APP.staticURL = '';
+    ENV.APP.APIURL = '';
 
     // ENV.APP.LOG_RESOLVER = true;
     // ENV.APP.LOG_ACTIVE_GENERATION = true;
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ module.exports = function(environment) {
   }
 
   if (environment === 'production') {
-    ENV.APP.websocketsURL = 'wss://richard.kompiler.org/reconstruction';
-    ENV.APP.staticURL = 'https://richard.kompiler.org/data/';
-    ENV.APP.APIURL  = 'https://richard.kompiler.org';
+    ENV.APP.websocketsURL = '';
+    ENV.APP.staticURL = ';
+    ENV.APP.APIURL  = '';
     ENV.baseURL = '/face-reconstruction/';
     ENV.rootURL = '/face-reconstruction/';
   }
diff --git a/ember-cli-build.js b/ember-cli-build.js
index b8064b753e24e44d79851bf278432e8be751d43e..ddb6211b1ddfbeba2af692a8da51502b3ae2dbca 100644
--- a/ember-cli-build.js
+++ b/ember-cli-build.js
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ module.exports = function(defaults) {
     }
   });
 
-  // bower compoenents
+  // bower components
+  // TODO: fix loading bascss locally instead of including it in the index.html.
   //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/align/index.css');
   //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/border/index.css');
   //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/flexbox/index.css');