diff --git a/frameworks/blueprint/templates/project/manifest.rb b/frameworks/blueprint/templates/project/manifest.rb
index e637d521..3c101942 100644
--- a/frameworks/blueprint/templates/project/manifest.rb
+++ b/frameworks/blueprint/templates/project/manifest.rb
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ stylesheet 'ie.sass',     :media => 'screen, projection', :condition => "lt IE 8
 
 image 'grid.png'
 
-html 'welcome.html.haml', :erb => true
-
 help %Q{
 Please see the blueprint website for documentation on how blueprint works:
 
diff --git a/frameworks/blueprint/templates/project/welcome.html.haml b/frameworks/blueprint/templates/project/welcome.html.haml
deleted file mode 100644
index 89aec1c4..00000000
--- a/frameworks/blueprint/templates/project/welcome.html.haml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-!!! Transition
-/ Feel free to delete this, it's just here to act as an example
-%html(xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en")
-  %head
-    %title Welcome to Compass & Blueprint
-    %link(rel="stylesheet" href="<%= http_stylesheets_path %>/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection")
-    %link(href="<%= http_stylesheets_path %>/print.css" media="print" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css")
-    /[if lt IE 8]
-      %link(href="<%= http_stylesheets_path %>/ie.css" media="screen, projection" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css")    
-    %style(type="text/css")
-      :sass
-        @import blueprint.sass
-        body#welcome
-          #container
-            +container
-          h1
-            +column(24)
-  %body#welcome.bp
-    #container
-      %h1 Welcome to Compass!
-      %p This is <%= "ERB" %>