diff --git a/doc/source/_templates/indexcontent.html b/doc/source/_templates/indexcontent.html
index 5851258026..e4324e0357 100644
--- a/doc/source/_templates/indexcontent.html
+++ b/doc/source/_templates/indexcontent.html
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
-{% extends "defindex.html" %}
-{% block tables %}
+{% extends "layout.html" %}
+{%- block htmltitle -%}
+<title>{{ html_title }}</title>
+{%- endblock -%}
+{% block body %}
+  <h1>{{ docstitle|e }}</h1>
+  <p>
+  {% trans %}Welcome! This is the documentation for Apache Cassandra {{ version }}.{% endtrans %}
+  </p>
 <div id="wipwarning">This documentation is a work-in-progress.
     <a href="{{ pathto("bugs") }}">Contributions</a> are welcome.</div>
 
diff --git a/doc/source/_util/cql.py b/doc/source/_util/cql.py
index 673fbcf6a7..023700b7bc 100644
--- a/doc/source/_util/cql.py
+++ b/doc/source/_util/cql.py
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ from pygments.lexer import Lexer, RegexLexer, do_insertions, bygroups, words
 from pygments.token import Punctuation, Whitespace, Error, \
     Text, Comment, Operator, Keyword, Name, String, Number, Generic, Literal
 from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name, ClassNotFound
-from pygments.util import iteritems
 
 __all__ = [ 'CQLLexer' ]