diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 6e5ac4940..7a6acc4e0 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -91,80 +91,26 @@ pygments_style = 'sphinx'
 
 # -- Options for HTML output ---------------------------------------------------
 
-# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
-# a list of builtin themes.
-html_theme = 'default'
+from better import better_theme_path
+html_theme_path = [better_theme_path]
+html_theme = 'better'
+
+html_short_title = "Home"
+html_static_path = ['_static']
 
 # Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
 # further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
 # documentation.
-#html_theme_options = {}
+html_theme_options = {}
 
-# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
-#html_theme_path = []
+html_sidebars = {
+    '**': ['localtoc.html', 'sourcelink.html', 'searchbox.html'],
+}
 
 # The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
 # "<project> v<release> documentation".
 #html_title = None
 
-# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
-#html_short_title = None
-
-# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
-# of the sidebar.
-#html_logo = None
-
-# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
-# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
-# pixels large.
-#html_favicon = None
-
-# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
-# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
-# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
-html_static_path = ['_static']
-
-# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
-# using the given strftime format.
-#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
-
-# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
-# typographically correct entities.
-#html_use_smartypants = True
-
-# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
-#html_sidebars = {}
-
-# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
-# template names.
-#html_additional_pages = {}
-
-# If false, no module index is generated.
-#html_domain_indices = True
-
-# If false, no index is generated.
-#html_use_index = True
-
-# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
-#html_split_index = False
-
-# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
-#html_show_sourcelink = True
-
-# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
-#html_show_sphinx = True
-
-# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
-#html_show_copyright = True
-
-# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
-# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
-# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
-#html_use_opensearch = ''
-
-# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
-#html_file_suffix = None
-
 # Output file base name for HTML help builder.
 htmlhelp_basename = 'PillowPILforkdoc'
 
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 2359d711e..af38b4b69 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Sphinx==1.1.3
 docopt==0.6.1
 docutils==0.11
 wsgiref==0.1.2
+sphinx-better-theme==0.1.5
 
 # livereload not strictly necessary but really useful (make livehtml)
 tornado==3.1.1