diff --git a/cmd/gmnhg/main.go b/cmd/gmnhg/main.go
index 6abf3d8..56280cc 100644
--- a/cmd/gmnhg/main.go
+++ b/cmd/gmnhg/main.go
@@ -46,22 +46,29 @@
 //
 // 1. Single pages are given .Post, which contains the entire post
 // rendered, .Metadata, which contains the metadata crawled from it (see
-// HugoMetadata), and .Link, which contains the filename relative to
-// content dir (with .md replaced with .gmi).
+// Metadata in internal/gmnhg/post.go), and .Link, which contains the
+// filename relative to content dir (with .md replaced with .gmi). 
 //
-// 2. Directory index pages are passed .Posts, which is a slice over
-// post metadata crawled (see HugoMetadata), .Dirname, which is
-// directory name relative to content dir, and .Content, which is
-// rendered from directory's _index.gmi.md.
+// 2. Directory index pages, including the top-level index, are passed
+// .Posts, which is a slice over post metadata crawled (see Metadata in
+// internal/gmnhg/post.go), .Dirname, which is the directory name
+// relative to the content dir, .Link, which contains the index filename
+// relative to the content dir (with .md replaced with .gmi), .Content,
+// which is rendered from directory's _index.gmi.md, and .Site, which
+// contains site-level configuration data loaded from the Hugo site's
+// config.toml, config.yaml, or config.json.
+//
+// The following keys are available in the .Site map, listed with their
+// associated Hugo configuration key: .BaseURL (baseUrl), .GmnhgBaseURL,
+// (gmnhg.baseUrl), .Title (title), .GmnhgTitle (gmnhg.title), .Copyright
+// (copyright), and .LanguageCode (languageCode).
 //
 // Directory indices are passed all posts from subdirectories (branch
 // and leaf bundles), with the exception of leaf resource pages. This
 // allows for roll-up indices.
 //
-// 3. The top-level index.gmi is passed with the .PostData map whose
-// keys are top-level content directories names and values are slices
-// over the same post props as specified in 1, and .Content, which is
-// rendered from top-level _index.gmi.md.
+// 3. RSS templates receive the same data as directory index pages, but
+// the filename provided by .Link is rss.xml instead of index.gmi.
 //
 // This program provides some extra template functions on top of sort:
 //
@@ -430,10 +437,20 @@ func main() {
 		if err != nil {
 			panic(err)
 		}
+		sc := map[string]interface{}{
+			"BaseURL":      siteConf.BaseURL,
+			"GmnhgBaseURL": siteConf.Gmnhg.BaseURL,
+			"Title":        siteConf.Title,
+			"GmnhgTitle":   siteConf.Gmnhg.Title,
+			"Copyright":    siteConf.Copyright,
+			"LanguageCode": siteConf.LanguageCode,
+		}
 		cnt := map[string]interface{}{
 			"Posts":   posts,
 			"Dirname": dirname,
+			"Link":    path.Join(dirname, indexFilename),
 			"Content": gemtext,
+			"Site":    sc,
 		}
 		buf := bytes.Buffer{}
 		if err := tmpl.Execute(&buf, cnt); err != nil {
@@ -457,8 +474,22 @@ func main() {
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
+	sc := map[string]interface{}{
+		"BaseURL":      siteConf.BaseURL,
+		"GmnhgBaseURL": siteConf.Gmnhg.BaseURL,
+		"Title":        siteConf.Title,
+		"GmnhgTitle":   siteConf.Gmnhg.Title,
+		"Copyright":    siteConf.Copyright,
+		"LanguageCode": siteConf.LanguageCode,
+	}
+	cnt := map[string]interface{}{
+		"Posts":   topLevelPosts,
+		"Dirname": "/",
+		"Link":    path.Join("/", indexFilename),
+		"Content": gemtext,
+		"Site":    sc,
+	}
 	buf := bytes.Buffer{}
-	cnt := map[string]interface{}{"PostData": topLevelPosts, "Content": gemtext}
 	if err := indexTmpl.Execute(&buf, cnt); err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/gmnhg/templates.go b/cmd/gmnhg/templates.go
index dc0db2f..e34481b 100644
--- a/cmd/gmnhg/templates.go
+++ b/cmd/gmnhg/templates.go
@@ -35,20 +35,22 @@ func defineFuncMap() template.FuncMap {
 	return fm
 }
 
-var defaultSingleTemplate = mustParseTmpl("single", `# {{ .Metadata.Title }}
+var defaultSingleTemplate = mustParseTmpl("single", `{{ with .Metadata.Title }}# {{.}}
 
-{{ .Metadata.Date.Format "2006-01-02 15:04" }}
+{{ end }}{{ if not .Metadata.Date.IsZero }}{{ .Metadata.Date.Format "2006-01-02 15:04" }}
 
-{{ printf "%s" .Post }}`)
+{{ end }}{{ printf "%s" .Post }}`)
 
-var defaultIndexTemplate = mustParseTmpl("index", `# Site index
+var defaultIndexTemplate = mustParseTmpl("index", `# {{ or .Site.GmnhgTitle (or .Site.Title "Site index") }}
+{{ with .Content }}
+{{ printf "%s" . }}{{- end }}
 
-{{ with .Content }}{{ printf "%s" . -}}{{ end }}
-{{- range $dir, $posts := .PostData }}{{ if and (ne $dir "/") (eq (dir $dir) "/") }}
+{{- range $dir, $posts := .Posts }}{{ if and (ne $dir "/") (eq (dir $dir) "/") }}
 Index of {{ trimPrefix "/" $dir }}:
 
-{{ range $p := $posts | sortPosts }}=> {{ $p.Link }} {{ $p.Metadata.Date.Format "2006-01-02 15:04" }} - {{ if $p.Metadata.Title }}{{ $p.Metadata.Title }}{{else}}{{ $p.Link }}{{end}}
-{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end }}
+{{ range $p := $posts | sortPosts }}=> {{ $p.Link }} {{ if not $p.Metadata.Date.IsZero }}
+{{- $p.Metadata.Date.Format "2006-01-02 15:04" }} - {{end}}{{ if $p.Metadata.Title }}{{ $p.Metadata.Title }}{{else}}{{ $p.Link }}{{end}}
+{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end -}}
 `)
 
 var defaultRssTemplate = mustParseTmpl("rss", `{{- $Site := .Site -}}
@@ -65,9 +67,7 @@ var defaultRssTemplate = mustParseTmpl("rss", `{{- $Site := .Site -}}
     <link>{{ $DirURL }}</link>
     <description>Recent content{{ with $Dirname }} in {{ . }}{{end}}{{ with $SiteTitle }} on {{ . }}{{end}}</description>
     <generator>gmnhg</generator>{{ with $Site.LanguageCode }}
-    <language>{{ html .}}</language>{{end}}{{ with $Site.Author.email }}
-    <managingEditor>{{ html . }}{{ with $Site.Author.name }} ({{ html . }}){{end}}</managingEditor>
-    <webMaster>{{ html . }}{{ with $Site.Author.name }} ({{ html . }}){{end}}</webMaster>{{end}}{{ with $Site.Copyright }}
+    <language>{{ html .}}</language>{{end}}{{ with $Site.Copyright }}
     <copyright>{{ html . }}</copyright>{{end}}
     <lastBuildDate>{{ now.Format "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700" }}</lastBuildDate>
     {{ printf "<atom:link href=%q rel=\"self\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" />" $RssURL }}