diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 69d6a444c2a1..7c0b82452ed7 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -2,17 +2,13 @@
 # Site settings
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-title: blank # the website title (if blank, full name will be used instead)
-first_name: You
-middle_name: R.
-last_name: Name
+title: The Nolan x Surmelli Lab # the website title (if blank, full name will be used instead)
+first_name: Nolan
+middle_name: and
+last_name: Surmelli
 email: you@example.com
 description: > # the ">" symbol means to ignore newlines until "footer_text:"
-  A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.
-footer_text: >
-  Powered by <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank">Jekyll</a> with <a href="https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio">al-folio</a> theme.
-  Hosted by <a href="https://pages.github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub Pages</a>.
-  Photos from <a href="https://unsplash.com" target="_blank">Unsplash</a>.
+  The Nolan x Surmelli Lab website.
 keywords: jekyll, jekyll-theme, academic-website, portfolio-website # add your own keywords or leave empty
 lang: en # the language of your site (for example: en, fr, cn, ru, etc.)
 icon: ⚛️ # the emoji used as the favicon (alternatively, provide image name in /assets/img/)
@@ -40,7 +36,7 @@ repo_trophies:
 # will use title and url fields
 # Take a look to https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed for more customization
 
-rss_icon: true
+rss_icon: false
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Layout
@@ -67,7 +63,7 @@ og_image: # The site-wide (default for all links) Open Graph preview image
 # Social integration
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-github_username: # your GitHub user name
+github_username: MattNolanLab # your GitHub user name
 gitlab_username: # your GitLab user name
 x_username: # your X handle
 mastodon_username: # your mastodon instance+username in the format instance.tld/@username
@@ -368,7 +364,7 @@ enable_bing_verification: false # enables bing site verification
 enable_masonry: true # enables automatic project cards arrangement
 enable_math: true # enables math typesetting (uses MathJax)
 enable_tooltips: false # enables automatic tooltip links generated for each section titles on pages and posts
-enable_darkmode: true # enables switching between light/dark modes
+enable_darkmode: false # enables switching between light/dark modes
 enable_navbar_social: false # enables displaying social links in the navbar on the about page
 enable_project_categories: true # enables categorization of projects into multiple categories
 enable_medium_zoom: true # enables image zoom feature (as on medium.com)
diff --git a/_pages/dropdown.md b/_pages/dropdown.md
deleted file mode 100644
index aa32f2212369..000000000000
--- a/_pages/dropdown.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: page
-title: submenus
-nav: true
-nav_order: 8
-dropdown: true
-children:
-  - title: publications
-    permalink: /publications/
-  - title: divider
-  - title: projects
-    permalink: /projects/
-  - title: divider
-  - title: blog
-    permalink: /blog/
----