diff --git a/app/views/projects/_readme.html.haml b/app/views/projects/_readme.html.haml
index b5ef0aca54035a77f2e684506350124d77561b99..d1191928d4fd36811b80baa02cccbb4c09cc6961 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/_readme.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/_readme.html.haml
@@ -7,15 +7,16 @@
       = cache(readme_cache_key) do
         = render_readme(readme)
 - else
-  %h3.page-title
-    This project does not have README yet
-  - if can?(current_user, :push_code, @project)
-    %p.slead
-      A
-      %code README
-      file contains information about other files in a repository and is commonly
-      distributed with computer software, forming part of its documentation.
-      %br
-      We recommend you to
-      = link_to "add README", new_readme_path, class: 'underlined-link'
-      file to the repository and GitLab will render it here instead of this message.
+  .gray-content-block.second-block.center
+    %h3.page-title
+      This project does not have README yet
+    - if can?(current_user, :push_code, @project)
+      %p
+        A
+        %code README
+        file contains information about other files in a repository and is commonly
+        distributed with computer software, forming part of its documentation.
+      %p
+        We recommend you to
+        = link_to "add README", new_readme_path, class: 'underlined-link'
+        file to the repository and GitLab will render it here instead of this message.
diff --git a/app/views/projects/empty.html.haml b/app/views/projects/empty.html.haml
index c3858e78caddf4e44fc1e79a837bad28b4029e33..950ab33825e82d5785c9875ad5cf5769ec3fd683 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/empty.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/empty.html.haml
@@ -5,17 +5,16 @@
 
 = render "home_panel"
 
-.gray-content-block.center
+.gray-content-block.second-block.center
   %h3.page-title
     The repository for this project is empty
-  - if can?(current_user, :download_code, @project)
+  - if can?(current_user, :push_code, @project)
     %p
       If you already have files you can push them using command line instructions below.
-      %br
-      - if can?(current_user, :push_code, @project)
-        Otherwise you can start with
-        = link_to "adding README", new_readme_path, class: 'underlined-link'
-        file to this project.
+    %p
+      Otherwise you can start with
+      = link_to "adding README", new_readme_path, class: 'underlined-link'
+      file to this project.
 
 - if can?(current_user, :download_code, @project)
   .prepend-top-20
diff --git a/app/views/projects/show.html.haml b/app/views/projects/show.html.haml
index 585caf674c961982e849ec5fad5dd7bf4e27529b..9c7a5584da9a1122a09121c940dc26c29da46461 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/show.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/show.html.haml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 = render "home_panel"
 
-.project-stats.gray-content-block
+.project-stats.gray-content-block.second-block
   %ul.nav.nav-pills
     %li
       = link_to namespace_project_commits_path(@project.namespace, @project, current_ref) do