Small design tweaks to fronts

Around round of little design changes across the fronts.

Before:
![screen shot 2014-10-10 at 20 09 33](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1607666/4597710/e7b61a60-50b0-11e4-95b8-7a155e311865.png)

After:
![screen shot 2014-10-10 at 20 09 50](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1607666/4597711/ea195e16-50b0-11e4-83b9-ce84828a2f8e.png)

these still need refactoring, we shouldn't be specifying like this. since this is the 2nd PR using selectors like this, fancy doing it?