diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f7bacf9..9090558 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 public/assets/*
 public/apidocs/*
 
+# Ignore branded content
+app/views/branded/*
+app/assets/**/*
+
 # Ignore gemfile.lock
 #Gemfile.lock
 
diff --git a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
index 6d2d8b3..2598cdf 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -102,9 +102,11 @@
     # Override rails default render action to look for a branded version of a
     # template instead of using the default one. If no override exists, the 
     # default version in ./app/views/[:controller]/[:action] will be used
+    #
+    # The path in the app/views/branded/ directory must match the the file it is
+    # replacing. For example:
+    #  app/views/branded/layouts/_header.html.erb -> app/views/layouts/_header.html.erb
     def prepend_view_paths
-      branded = Rails.configuration.branding[:branding_override_directory]
-    
-      prepend_view_path "app/views/#{branded}" unless branded.nil?
+      prepend_view_path "app/views/branded" unless branded.nil?
     end
 end
diff --git a/config/branding.yml b/config/branding.yml
index 8e82b56..783b2c0 100644
--- a/config/branding.yml
+++ b/config/branding.yml
@@ -10,19 +10,6 @@
     name: 'DMPRoadmap'
     url: 'https://github.com/DMPRoadmap/roadmap'
   
-  # You can override the generic DMPRoadmap versions of several types of files
-  # by simply adding your own override directory to the ./app/views, ./app/assets,
-  # and ./config/locales directories.
-  #
-  # For example, ./app/views/overrides/_dmponline_header.html.erb would be used by
-  # the system instead of the one at ./app/views/layouts/_dmponline_header.html.erb
-  # and ./app/assets/overrides/admin.css would override the one at 
-  # ./app/assets/stylesheets/admin.css.
-  #
-  # NOTE: that file names must match 
-  #
-  branding_override_directory: 'overrides'
-  
   
 development:
   <<: *defaults