diff --git a/app/static/css/screen-dark.css b/app/static/css/screen-dark.css
index bbe37753d..c658f79d7 100644
--- a/app/static/css/screen-dark.css
+++ b/app/static/css/screen-dark.css
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ nav             { font-family: sans-serif}
     padding: 10px;
 }
 
-.subnode, .links {
+.subnode, .links, .not-found {
     background: #12091a;
     /* background: #150d38; */
     color: #cfcfcf; 
@@ -81,11 +81,10 @@ nav             { font-family: sans-serif}
 }
 
 .not-found { 
+    /*
     background: #2f1f1f; 
-    color: #cfcfcf; 
-    padding: 0.5em; 
-    margin-bottom: 10px; 
-    border-radius: 10px;
+    */
+    background: #690000;
 }
 
 /*.subnode li     { margin: 0.8em 1.2em; }*/
diff --git a/app/templates/base.html b/app/templates/base.html
index bcc3d6d5c..538405025 100644
--- a/app/templates/base.html
+++ b/app/templates/base.html
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
         <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
                            title="Agora" href={{url_for('agora.search_xml')}}>
 	    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Merriweather:300,700,700italic,300italic|Open+Sans:700,400" />
-	    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ url_for('static',filename='css/screen-dark.css')}}?uncached8" id="theme-link" />
+	    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ url_for('static',filename='css/screen-dark.css')}}?uncached9" id="theme-link" />
     <script type=text/javascript src="{{url_for('static', filename='js/main.js')}}"></script>
     <!-- considering this way of integrating hypothesis, although I like "standard" (sidebar) mode.
     <script type="application/json" class="js-hypothesis-config">
diff --git a/app/templates/node.html b/app/templates/node.html
index c82e026fd..edc953735 100644
--- a/app/templates/node.html
+++ b/app/templates/node.html
@@ -15,13 +15,31 @@
 -->
 
 {% if not node.subnodes and not node.pushed_subnodes() %}
-<div class="not-found">
-No node found at [[{{node.uri}}]]. 
-<br /><br />
-If you <a href="https://flancia.org/go/agora">contributed a matching subnode</a> with basename '{{node.uri}}' to the Agora (e.g. a note named {{node}}.md or an image named {{node}}.jpg), this node would exist :)
-<br /><br />
-You can try searching or listing <a href="/nodes">all nodes</a>.<br /><br />
-Existing permutations are optimistically pulled below.<br/>
+<div class="node">
+    <span class="node-header">No Agora node found at [[{{qstr}}]]... yet :)</span>
+    <div class="not-found">
+        <ul>
+        <li>
+            If you <a href="https://flancia.org/go/agora">contributed content</a> related to '{{qstr}}' to the Agora ), it would show up here :)
+            <ul>
+                <li>
+                    For example a note named <code>{{node}}.md</code> or an image named <code>{{node}}.jpg</code>. <a href="/node/sign-up"
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                   <strong>Sign up now</strong></a> and start participating!
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    You can also contribute anonymously to the public Stoa down below; it is world writeable. Feel free to write something about {{qstr}}; whatever it <strong>means</strong> to you.
+                </li>
+            </ul>
+        </li>
+        <li>
+    You can try searching on (see below).
+        </li>
+        <li>
+    Some existing permutations might be optimistically pulled below.<br/>
+        </li>
+    </div>
 </div>
 {% endif %}