diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 17f0e4e7..acd0f91d 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -3,32 +3,32 @@ module ApplicationHelper
     @body_class ||= ''
     @body_class << " #{class_name}"
   end
-  
+
   def auth_server_icon_url
     "http://#{Openneo::Auth.config.auth_server}/favicon.png"
   end
-  
+
   def body_class
     "#{params[:controller]} #{params[:controller]}-#{params[:action]}".tap do |output|
       output << @body_class if @body_class
     end
   end
-  
+
   def flashes
     raw(flash.inject('') do |html, pair|
       key, value = pair
       html + content_tag('p', value, :class => key)
     end)
   end
-  
+
   def hide_home_link
     @hide_home_link = true
   end
-  
+
   def home_link?
     !@hide_home_link
   end
-  
+
   JAVASCRIPT_LIBRARIES = {
     :addthis => 'http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=openneo',
     :bitly => 'http://bit.ly/javascript-api.js?version=latest&login=openneo&apiKey=R_4d0438829b7a99860de1d3edf55d8dc8',
@@ -37,30 +37,35 @@ module ApplicationHelper
     :jquery_tmpl => 'http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/jquery.tmpl.min.js',
     :swfobject => 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject.js'
   }
-  
+
   def include_javascript_libraries(*library_names)
     raw(library_names.inject('') do |html, name|
       html + javascript_include_tag(JAVASCRIPT_LIBRARIES[name])
     end)
   end
-  
+
   def login_path_with_return_to
     login_path :return_to => request.fullpath
   end
-  
+
   def logout_path_with_return_to
     logout_path :return_to => request.fullpath
   end
-  
+
   def origin_tag(value)
     hidden_field_tag 'origin', value, :id => nil
   end
-  
+
+  def show_title_header?
+    params[:controller] != 'items'
+  end
+
   def signed_in_meta_tag
     %(<meta name="user-signed-in" content="#{user_signed_in?}">).html_safe
   end
-  
+
   def title(value)
     content_for :title, value
   end
 end
+
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
index 632679f3..44ee2264 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   %body{:class => body_class}
     = javascript_include_tag "analytics"
     #container
-      - if content_for? :title
+      - if content_for?(:title) && show_title_header?
         %h1#title= yield :title
       = render 'static/announcement.html'
       = yield :before_flashes