diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/aql/translator/AqlTranslator.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/aql/translator/AqlTranslator.java
index c8b0321..976ec7c 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/aql/translator/AqlTranslator.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/aql/translator/AqlTranslator.java
@@ -1370,7 +1370,6 @@
                 }
                 switch (pdf) {
                     case HTML:
-                        out.println("<h3>Result:</h3>");
                         out.println("<pre>");
                         ResultUtils.prettyPrintHTML(out, response);
                         out.println("</pre>");
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/webui/querytemplate.html b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/webui/querytemplate.html
index 23887c40..89e047f 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/webui/querytemplate.html
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/webui/querytemplate.html
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
 <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Bitter|PT+Sans+Caption|Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
 <script src="/webui/static/js/jquery.min.js"></script>
-<script src="/webui/static/js/jquery.autosize-min.js"></script>
 
 <link href="/webui/static/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
 <link href="/webui/static/css/bootstrap-responsive.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
@@ -16,8 +15,6 @@
 
 <script type="text/javascript">
 $(document).ready(function(){
-   $('textarea').autosize();
-
    $("form#queryform").submit(function() {
      $.post("/", $("form#queryform").serialize(), function(data) {
        $('#output-message').html(data);
@@ -59,28 +56,18 @@
           <form id="queryform" class="form-horizontal" method="post">
             <div>
               <label class="query">Query</label>
-              <textarea rows="20" name="query" class="query" value="%s" placeholder="Type your AQL query ..."></textarea>
+              <textarea rows="10" name="query" class="query" value="%s" placeholder="Type your AQL query ..."></textarea>
             </div>
             <div>
-              <div class="left">
-                <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="print-expr-tree" value="true" /> Print parsed expressions</label>
-              </div>
-              <div class="right">
-                <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="print-rewritten-expr-tree" value="true" /> Print rewritten expressions</label>
-              </div>
+              <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" name="print-expr-tree" value="true" /> Print parsed expressions</label>
+              <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" name="print-rewritten-expr-tree" value="true" /> Print rewritten expressions</label>
             </div>
             <div>
-              <div class="left">
-                <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="print-logical-plan" value="true" /> Print logical plan</label>
-              </div>
-              <div class="right">
-                <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="print-optimized-logical-plan" value="true" /> Print optimized logical plan</label>
-              </div>
+              <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" name="print-logical-plan" value="true" /> Print logical plan</label>
+              <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" name="print-optimized-logical-plan" value="true" /> Print optimized logical plan</label>
             </div>
             <div>
-              <div class="left">
-                <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="print-job" value="true" /> Print hyracks job</label>
-              </div>
+              <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" name="print-job" value="true" /> Print hyracks job</label>
             </div>
             <button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger">Execute</button>
           </form>
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/webui/static/css/style.css b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/webui/static/css/style.css
index 673cd07..10f28dd 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/webui/static/css/style.css
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/webui/static/css/style.css
@@ -50,16 +50,11 @@
     font-family: bitter, helvetica;
     width: 100%;
     padding: 10px;
-    color: #999;
+    color: #333;
     resize: none;
     border: 10px solid #eee;
 }
 
-textarea.query:focus {
-    outline: none;
-    color: #333;
-}
-
 label {
     padding-top: 10px;
 }