diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c954958..aa3cfbb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 .sass-cache
 dev/css
 templates/announcement.html.ep
+templates/custom
 log
 blib
 script*
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5ea5725..6fe7c2b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,7 +62,10 @@
 $ cpanm git://github.com/Akron/Mojolicious-Plugin-Localize.git
 ```
 
-Then install the dependencies as always and run the test suite.
+Then install the dependencies using
+[App::cpanminus](http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-cpanminus/)
+(there is no need to install Kalamar)
+and run the test suite.
 
 ```
 $ cd Kalamar
@@ -95,7 +98,7 @@
 introduced, that will be consulted during the build process, loading
 optional components using a ```require(...)``` directive.
 
-### Localization
+### Localization and Customization
 
 To create a localized version of Kalamar, start the ```localize``` command
 with the target locale as its argument, e.g. ```pl``` for polish.
@@ -114,9 +117,7 @@
 ```
 
 To localize example queries according to a special corpus environment,
-define a name of the example corpus in the configuration,
-and create a translation file based on ```kalamar.queries.dict```
-as a blueprint.
+define a name of the example corpus in the configuration.
 
 ```
 Kalamar => {
@@ -125,6 +126,14 @@
 
 ```
 
+Then create a translation file based on ```kalamar.queries.dict```
+as a blueprint and add it to the ```Localize``` resource list.
+
+Templates can be localized and customized by overriding
+the ```Template``` dictionary entries.
+This is especially useful for the landing page in
+```Template_intro```.
+
 Currently the JavaScript translations are separated and stored in ```dev/js/src/loc```.
 To generate assets relying on different locales, add the locale to ```Gruntfile.js```.
 
@@ -143,7 +152,6 @@
 See ```dev/js/src/hint/foundries``` for
 more optional foundries.
 
-
 ## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
 
 ### Bundled Software
diff --git a/lib/Kalamar/Controller/Search.pm b/lib/Kalamar/Controller/Search.pm
index 3045bb5..cdd8851 100644
--- a/lib/Kalamar/Controller/Search.pm
+++ b/lib/Kalamar/Controller/Search.pm
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
   # No query
   unless ($query) {
-    return $c->render(template => $c->loc('Template_intro', 'intro'));
+    return $c->render($c->loc('Template_intro', 'intro'));
   };
 
   # Base parameters for remote access
diff --git a/t/basic.t b/t/basic.t
index 2bdd9cf..0bbc09e 100644
--- a/t/basic.t
+++ b/t/basic.t
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use Mojo::Base -strict;
-use lib '../lib', 'lib';
 use Test::More;
 use Test::Mojo;
+use Mojo::File qw/path/;
 
 my $t = Test::Mojo->new('Kalamar');
 
@@ -10,7 +10,28 @@
 $t->get_ok('/')
   ->status_is(200)
   ->text_is('title', 'KorAP - Corpus Analysis Platform')
-  ->text_is('h1 span', 'KorAP - Corpus Analysis Platform');
+  ->text_is('h1 span', 'KorAP - Corpus Analysis Platform')
+  ->element_exists('div.intro')
+  ->text_is('div.intro > p > strong', 'KorAP')
+  ;
+
+push @{$t->app->renderer->paths}, path(path(__FILE__)->dirname);
+
+$t->app->plugin(Localize => {
+  dict => {
+    Template => {
+      intro => 'custom/intro'
+    }
+  },
+  override => 1
+});
+
+$t->get_ok('/')
+  ->status_is(200)
+  ->text_is('title', 'KorAP - Corpus Analysis Platform')
+  ->text_is('h1 span', 'KorAP - Corpus Analysis Platform')
+  ->element_exists('div.intro')
+  ->text_is('div.intro h2', 'This is a custom intro page!');
 
 $t->get_ok('/huhuhuhuhu')
   ->status_is(404)
diff --git a/t/custom/intro.html.ep b/t/custom/intro.html.ep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a29e55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/custom/intro.html.ep
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+% layout 'main', sidebar_active => 1;
+
+
+<div class="intro">
+  <h2>This is a custom intro page!</h2>
+</div>
diff --git a/templates/intro.html.ep b/templates/intro.html.ep
index 3052a3e..8e37688 100644
--- a/templates/intro.html.ep
+++ b/templates/intro.html.ep
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-% layout 'main';
-
-% stash(sidebar_active => 1);
+% layout 'main', sidebar_active => 1;
 
 
 <div class="intro">