ui bugz for landing page

This corrects all the ui bugs in the dashboard as per section 1) of #227 and these redpens: 
https://redpen.io/kn6a8fa0bfff0b912b
https://redpen.io/gvbe76faf89894c38d
https://redpen.io/qm874694931577560e

section 2) and 3) will be done in another pull request