diff --git a/public/css/news.css b/public/css/news.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79bf574
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/css/news.css
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+body .channel {
+	font-size: 20px;
+	background-color: #e6e8e6;
+	padding: 40px;
+}
+
+body .channel h1 {
+	text-align: center;
+	color: #b2675e;
+}
+
diff --git a/source/app.d b/source/app.d
index 7b91113..5b57ac1 100644
--- a/source/app.d
+++ b/source/app.d
@@ -74,7 +74,22 @@
 						(RSSFeed[] fl) {
 							fl.each!(
 									(RSSFeed feed) {
+										// start workers to serve RSS data
 										tasks[feed.name] = runWorkerTaskH(&feedActor, feed.name, feed.path);
+
+										// refresh RSS data with a timer
+										setTimer(feed.refresh, () {
+													tasks[feed.name].send(Task.getThis());
+
+													auto resp = receiveOnly!FeedActorResponse;
+													if(resp == FeedActorResponse.INVALID) {
+														tasks.remove(feed.name);
+														return;
+													}
+
+													tasks[feed.name].send(FeedActorRequest.QUIT);
+													tasks[feed.name] = runWorkerTaskH(&feedActor, feed.name, feed.path);
+												}, true);
 									});
 						});
 
diff --git a/source/cartastraccia/renderer.d b/source/cartastraccia/renderer.d
index 76fee47..347ea28 100644
--- a/source/cartastraccia/renderer.d
+++ b/source/cartastraccia/renderer.d
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 		auto container = doc.createElement("div", doc.root.firstChild);
 		container.attr("class", "channel");
 		container.attr("id", feedName);
-		container.html = "<h1>"~cname~"</h2>";
+		container.html = "<meta charset=\"UTF-8\"><h1>"~cname~"</h2>";
 
 		ulong icnt = 0;
 		foreach(iname, item; channel.items) {
diff --git a/views/index.dt b/views/index.dt
index 73de1d0..b6b3025 100644
--- a/views/index.dt
+++ b/views/index.dt
@@ -1,17 +1,20 @@
 doctype html
 html
 	head
+		link(href="css/news.css", rel="stylesheet", type="text/css")
 		title CartaStraccia - RSS Feed Reader
+		:css
 	body
-		h1 Cartastraccia RSS Channels
-		p Click channel name to read, click Source for remote source
-		ul#index
-		- uint cnt = 0;
-		- foreach(feed; validFeeds)
-			- cnt++;
-			li
-				Feed #{cnt}: 
-					a(href="channels/"~feed.name~".html") #{feed.name}
-				p  
-					a(href=feed.path) View source
+		#list(class="channel")
+			h1 Cartastraccia RSS Channels
+			p Click channel name to read, click Source for remote source
+			ul#index
+			- uint cnt = 0;
+			- foreach(feed; validFeeds)
+				- cnt++;
+				li
+					Feed #{cnt}: 
+						a(href="channels/"~feed.name~".html") #{feed.name}
+					p  
+						a(href=feed.path) View source