diff --git a/web/src/app.rs b/web/src/app.rs
index 50e41385..b74ff23f 100644
--- a/web/src/app.rs
+++ b/web/src/app.rs
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ pub fn App() -> impl IntoView {
 					<Router // TODO maybe set base="/web" ?
 						trailing_slash=TrailingSlash::Redirect
 						fallback=move || view! { 
+							<Breadcrumb back=true >404</Breadcrumb>
 							<div class="center">
 								<h3>nothing to see here!</h3>
 								<p><a href="/web"><button type="button">back to root</button></a></p>
diff --git a/web/src/control.rs b/web/src/control.rs
index 51cc9678..ddbd4db1 100644
--- a/web/src/control.rs
+++ b/web/src/control.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pub fn Navigator() -> impl IntoView {
 			<table class="align">
 				<tr>
 					<td class="w-100">
-						<input type="text" class="w-100" on:input=move |ev| {
+						<input type="text" placeholder="search" class="w-100" on:input=move |ev| {
 							set_query.set(event_target_value(&ev))
 						} />
 					</td>
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ pub fn PostBox(advanced: WriteSignal<bool>) -> impl IntoView {
 			}
 			<table class="align w-100">
 				<tr>
-					<td><input type="checkbox" on:input=move |ev| advanced.set(event_target_checked(&ev)) title="advanced" /></td>
+					<td><input type="checkbox" on:input=move |ev| advanced.set(event_target_checked(&ev)) title="toggle advanced controls" /></td>
 					<td class="w-100"><input class="w-100" type="text" node_ref=summary_ref title="summary" /></td>
 				</tr>
 			</table>
 
-			<textarea rows="6" class="w-100" node_ref=content_ref title="content" ></textarea>
+			<textarea rows="6" class="w-100" node_ref=content_ref title="content" placeholder="\n look at nothing\n  what do you see?" ></textarea>
 
 			<table class="align rev w-100">
 				<tr>