diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/dropdown.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/dropdown.coffee
index ed7b8bb..583103d 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/dropdown.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/dropdown.coffee
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class Selector
       $el.addClass 'selected'
       self.placeholder.text "#{self.prefix}: #{$el.text()}"
       self.setValue $el.data 'value'
+      $('textarea').focus()
 
     @options.filter('.selected').click()
     @dropdown.removeClass 'active'
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/pastemaster.styl b/app/assets/stylesheets/pastemaster.styl
index 47c377b..a768df2 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/pastemaster.styl
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/pastemaster.styl
@@ -1,83 +1,81 @@
-* { -moz-box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; }
+*
+  -moz-box-sizing border-box
+  -webkit-box-sizing border-box
+  box-sizing border-box
 
-body, input, select {
-  font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
-  font-size: 1em;
-}
-textarea, pre {
-  font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, Lucida Console, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Courier New, monospace, serif;
-  font-size: 1em;
-}
-html, body, form {
-  height: 100%;
-}
-body {
-  background-color: #fcfcfc;
-  padding: 3em;
-}
-h1 {
-  position: absolute;
-  top: 1em;
-  left: 3em;
-  font-weight: 200;
-  font-size: 1em;
-  line-height: 1em;
-  padding: 0;
-  margin: 0;
-  text-transform: uppercase;
-  color: #ccc;
-}
-.linenos {
-  padding-right: .5em;
-  color: #ccc;
-  border-right: #eee 1px solid;
-}
-.code {
-  padding-left: .5em;
-}
+body, input, select
+  font-family Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
+  font-size 1em
 
-.container {
-  width: 100%;
-  height: 100%;
-}
+textarea, pre
+  font-family Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, Lucida Console, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Courier New, monospace, serif
+  font-size 1em
 
-textarea, input {
-  outline: none;
-}
+html, body, form
+  height 100%
 
-textarea {
-  background-color: #ffffff;
-  width: 100%;
-  height: 100%;
-  line-height: 120%;
-  resize: none;
-  border: #ddd 1px solid;
-  border-radius: 5px;
-  padding: .5em;
-}
+body
+  background-color #fcfcfc
+  padding 3em
 
-form input[type="submit"], form a[role="submit"] {
-  float: right;
-}
-form a[role="submit"] {
-  background-color: #fefefe;
-  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff, #f5f5f5);
-  background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #ffffff, #f5f5f5);
-  box-shadow: 0 1px 2px 2px #ffffff;
-  color: #666;
-  text-shadow: 0 0 2px #ffffff;
-  border: #ddd 1px solid;
-  border-radius: 4px;
-  border-bottom-width: 4px;
-  font-size: 1em;
-  width: 5em;
-  text-align: center;
-  padding: .4em 0;
-  margin: .4em 0;
-  text-decoration: none;
-  display: none;
-}
-form a[role="submit"]:active {
-  box-shadow: 0 0 2px 2px #eee inset;
-  border-bottom-width: 1px;
-}
+h1
+  position absolute
+  top 1em
+  left 3em
+  font-weight 200
+  font-size 1em
+  line-height 1em
+  padding 0
+  margin 0
+  text-transform uppercase
+  color #ccc
+
+.linenos
+  padding-right .5em
+  color #ccc
+  border-right #eee 1px solid
+
+.code
+  padding-left .5em
+
+.container
+  width 100%
+  height 100%
+
+textarea, input
+  outline none
+
+textarea
+  background-color #ffffff
+  width 100%
+  height 100%
+  line-height 120%
+  resize none
+  border #ddd 1px solid
+  border-radius 5px
+  padding .5em
+
+form input[type="submit"], form a[role="submit"]
+  float right
+
+form a[role="submit"]
+  background-color #fefefe
+  background-image -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff, #f5f5f5)
+  background-image linear-gradient(to bottom, #ffffff, #f5f5f5)
+  box-shadow 0 1px 2px 2px #ffffff
+  color #666
+  text-shadow 0 0 2px #ffffff
+  border #ddd 1px solid
+  border-radius 4px
+  border-bottom-width 4px
+  font-size 1em
+  width 5em
+  text-align center
+  padding .4em 0
+  margin .4em 0
+  text-decoration none
+  display none
+
+  &:active
+    box-shadow 0 0 2px 2px #eee inset
+    border-bottom-width 1px
diff --git a/app/config.example.rb b/app/config.example.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b2c9e6..0000000
--- a/app/config.example.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-CONFIG = {
-  database_url: 'postgres://pastemaster:pastemaster@localhost:5432/pastemaster'
-}
diff --git a/app/models/configuration.rb b/app/models/configuration.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5048c53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/models/configuration.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+class Configuration
+  attr_reader :database_url,
+              :syntaxes_map,
+              :available_syntaxes
+
+  def initialize
+    load_database_config
+    load_syntax_config
+  end
+
+  def load_database_config
+    config = YAML.load_file(APP_ROOT.join('config', 'database.yml'))
+    @database_url = '%s://%s:%s@%s:%s/%s' % [
+      config['protocol'],
+      config['username'],
+      config['password'],
+      config['host'],
+      config['port'],
+      config['database']
+    ]
+  end
+
+  def load_syntax_config
+    config = YAML.load_file(APP_ROOT.join('config', 'syntax.yml'))
+    @syntaxes_map = config
+    @available_syntaxes = config.keys
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/paste.rb b/app/models/paste.rb
similarity index 85%
rename from app/paste.rb
rename to app/models/paste.rb
index 06f0108..e84e6f2 100644
--- a/app/paste.rb
+++ b/app/models/paste.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class Paste
 
   def initialize(contents, type = nil)
     @contents = contents
-    @type = type if available_types.include?(type)
+    @type = type if CONFIG.available_syntaxes.include?(type)
   end
 
   def save
@@ -47,8 +47,4 @@ class Paste
   def html
     type ? highlighted : paragraph
   end
-
-  def available_types
-    @available_types ||= Pygments::Lexer.all.map(&:aliases).flatten
-  end
 end
diff --git a/config/database.yml b/config/database.yml
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..f227519
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/database.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+examples/database.yml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/examples/database.yml b/config/examples/database.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..18ed089
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/examples/database.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+protocol: postgres
+username: pastemaster
+password: pastemaster
+host: localhost
+port: 5432
+database: pastemaster
diff --git a/config/examples/syntax.yml b/config/examples/syntax.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17492c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/examples/syntax.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+actionscript: ActionScript
+applescript: AppleScript
+awk: Awk
+c: C
+charp: C#
+cpp: C++
+clojure: Clojure
+coffeescript: CoffeeScript
+cl: Common Lisp
+d: D
+dart: Dart
+delphi: Delphi
+erlang: Erlang
+go: Go
+groovy: Groovy
+haskell: Haskell
+java: Java
+javascript: JavaScript
+json: JSON
+lua: Lua
+objc: Objective-C
+ocaml: OCaml
+perl: Perl
+php: PHP
+python: Python
+ruby: Ruby
+rust: Rust
+scala: Scala
+smalltalk: Smalltalk
+vim: VimL
+xml: XML
+xslt: XSLT
diff --git a/config/initializers/configuration.rb b/config/initializers/configuration.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..59875ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/configuration.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+APP_ROOT = Pathname.new(File.expand_path('../../..', __FILE__))
+CONFIG = Configuration.new
diff --git a/app/database.rb b/config/initializers/database.rb
similarity index 72%
rename from app/database.rb
rename to config/initializers/database.rb
index ec28011..78c41bf 100644
--- a/app/database.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/database.rb
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-DB = Sequel.connect(CONFIG[:database_url])
+DB = Sequel.connect(CONFIG.database_url)
 
 # DB.drop_table(:pastes) if DB.table_exists?(:pastes)
 
 DB.create_table(:pastes) do
   primary_key :id
-  String      :type
+  String      :syntax
   Text        :contents
 end unless DB.table_exists?(:pastes)
diff --git a/config/syntax.yml b/config/syntax.yml
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..1e31d3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/syntax.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+examples/syntax.yml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pastemaster.rb b/pastemaster.rb
index f6d8379..d7ece28 100644
--- a/pastemaster.rb
+++ b/pastemaster.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ $:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__)
 
 require 'securerandom'
 require 'base64'
+require 'yaml'
 
 require 'bundler/setup'
 require 'sinatra'
@@ -13,11 +14,12 @@ require 'stylus'
 require 'stylus/tilt'
 require 'pygments'
 
+require 'app/models/configuration'
+require 'app/models/paste'
+require 'config/initializers/configuration'
+require 'config/initializers/database'
 require 'lib/error_pages'
 require 'lib/assets'
-require 'app/config'
-require 'app/database'
-require 'app/paste'
 
 class Pastemaster < Sinatra::Application
   set :server, 'unicorn'
@@ -30,14 +32,8 @@ class Pastemaster < Sinatra::Application
   use CoffeeAssets
   use StylusAssets
 
-  def fetch_lexers
-    @lexers_list ||= Pygments::Lexer.all.map do |lexer|
-      { alias: lexer.aliases.first, name: lexer.name }
-    end.sort_by{ |a| a[:name] }
-  end
-
   get '/' do
-    @lexers = fetch_lexers
+    @lexers = CONFIG.syntaxes_map
 
     slim :form, layout: :default
   end
diff --git a/views/default.slim b/views/default.slim
index 10b87ff..f5fe7b8 100644
--- a/views/default.slim
+++ b/views/default.slim
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ html
     link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/dropdown.css?r1"
     link rel="stylesheet" href="/pygments_solarized_modified.css?r1"
   body
-    h1
-      strong Paste
-      | master
+    a href="/"
+      h1
+        strong Paste
+        | master
     .container== yield
     script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.0.3.min.js"
     script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/pastemaster.js?r1"
diff --git a/views/form.slim b/views/form.slim
index b74cbdb..8e59a0c 100644
--- a/views/form.slim
+++ b/views/form.slim
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ form action="/" method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8"
     span Syntax
     ul.dropdown
       li.selected data-value="" Plain Text
-      - for lexer in @lexers
-        li data-value=lexer[:alias] =lexer[:name]
+      - for code, name in @lexers
+        li data-value=code =name
   input type="submit" value="Save"
   a href="#" role="submit" Save