diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 827353c8579a27302ea1ed3e5a8f3bcbcc47a3f8..cfda3a97583308939f00a34ef4c5f41ea1e22b70 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -41,13 +41,6 @@
           <li><a href="#">link 3</a></li>
           <li><a href="#">link 4</a></li>
         </ul>
-        <h1>Search</h1>
-        <form method="post" action="#" id="search_form">
-          <p>
-            <input class="search" type="text" name="search_field" value="Enter keywords....." />
-            <input name="search" type="image" style="border: 0; margin: 0 0 -9px 5px;" src="style/search.png" alt="Search" title="Search" />
-          </p>
-        </form>
       </div>
       <div id="content">
         <h1>Welcome to the simple_light template</h1>
@@ -64,10 +57,6 @@
         </ul>
       </div>
     </div>
-    <div id="footer">
-      <p><a href="index.html">Home</a> | <a href="examples.html">Examples</a> | <a href="page.html">A Page</a> | <a href="another_page.html">Another Page</a> | <a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a></p>
-      <p>Copyright &copy; simple_light | <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">HTML5</a> | <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS</a> | <a href="http://www.html5webtemplates.co.uk">design from HTML5webtemplates.co.uk</a></p>
-    </div>
   </div>
 </body>
 </html>