diff --git a/applications/admin/static/css/bootstrap_essentials.css b/applications/admin/static/css/bootstrap_essentials.css
index b5035b62..24f625ec 100644
--- a/applications/admin/static/css/bootstrap_essentials.css
+++ b/applications/admin/static/css/bootstrap_essentials.css
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ input[type="file"] { margin-bottom:9px; }
 
 .form-inline input[type="file"] { margin-bottom:0px; }
 
-input + .help-block { margin-top:-5px; margin-bottom:4px; }
+input + .help-block { margin-top:-10px; margin-bottom:4px; }
 
 #confirm_form input.btn, .generatedbyw2p input { margin-right:4px; }
 
@@ -467,6 +467,9 @@ EDIT PAGE SLIDING FILES MENU
 
  }
 
+/*-----------------------------------
+miscellaneous
+-------------------------------------*/
 h4.editableapp, h4.currentapp { padding: 5px 0 5px 54px; display: inline; }
 
 h4.editableapp { background: #fff url(../images/folder.png) no-repeat; }
@@ -474,7 +477,13 @@ h4.editableapp { background: #fff url(../images/folder.png) no-repeat; }
 h4.currentapp { background: #fff url(../images/folder_locked.png) no-repeat; }
 
 .flash { position:fixed; width:50%; top:49px; left:25%; right:25%; cursor:default; text-align:center; z-index:5620; }
+span#closeflash {position:absolute; top:1px; right:-1px; font-size:150%; border:1px solid black; border-color: transparent transparent #fbeed5 #fbeed5; border-radius: 0 0 0 4px; width:22px; }
+span#closeflash:hover {font-weight:bold; cursor:pointer; }
 
 table.twitter{ background-color: transparent; }
 table.twitter tr td {vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; }
-table.twitter tr { border-bottom: 1px solid #a0a0a0; }
\ No newline at end of file
+table.twitter tr { border-bottom: 1px solid #a0a0a0; }
+
+div.error_wrapper {margin-top:-10px; margin-bottom:8px; padding-left:2px; color:#d62e2b; }
+
+.twitter-timeline >iframe{padding: 1em 0;}
diff --git a/applications/admin/views/default/site.html b/applications/admin/views/default/site.html
index b93b7479..c618d923 100644
--- a/applications/admin/views/default/site.html
+++ b/applications/admin/views/default/site.html
@@ -145,8 +145,11 @@
     <p>{{=button(URL('wizard','index'), T('Start wizard'))}}<br/>
       {{=T("(requires internet access, experimental)")}}</p>
       </div> <!-- /APP WIZARD -->
-      <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/web2py" data-widget-id="340456915207327745">Tweets by @web2py</a>
-      <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>
+      <!-- TWITTER TIMELINE -->
+      <div class="box twitter-timeline">
+        <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/web2py" data-widget-id="340456915207327745">Tweets by @web2py</a>
+        <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>
+      </div><!-- /TWITTER TIMELINE -->
     </div>
   </div> <!-- /sidebar -->
 </div> <!-- /row-fluid