diff --git a/Doxyfile b/Doxyfile
index e812e914d..f6a8a4a04 100644
--- a/Doxyfile
+++ b/Doxyfile
@@ -908,7 +908,8 @@ WARN_LOGFILE           =
 # spaces. See also FILE_PATTERNS and EXTENSION_MAPPING
 # Note: If this tag is empty the current directory is searched.
 
-INPUT                  = include
+INPUT                  = README.md \
+                         include
 
 # This tag can be used to specify the character encoding of the source files
 # that doxygen parses. Internally doxygen uses the UTF-8 encoding. Doxygen uses
@@ -1128,7 +1129,7 @@ FILTER_SOURCE_PATTERNS =
 # (index.html). This can be useful if you have a project on for instance GitHub
 # and want to reuse the introduction page also for the doxygen output.
 
-USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE =
+USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE = README.md
 
 # The Fortran standard specifies that for fixed formatted Fortran code all
 # characters from position 72 are to be considered as comment. A common
@@ -1701,7 +1702,7 @@ GENERATE_TREEVIEW      = YES
 # The default value is: NO.
 # This tag requires that the tag GENERATE_HTML is set to YES.
 
-FULL_SIDEBAR           = YES
+FULL_SIDEBAR           = NO
 
 # The ENUM_VALUES_PER_LINE tag can be used to set the number of enum values that
 # doxygen will group on one line in the generated HTML documentation.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6f52916b6..b20d696b2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is a simple framework for embedding Chromi
 * Branches and Building - https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/wiki/BranchesAndBuilding
 * Announcements - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cef-announce
 * Support Forum - http://www.magpcss.org/ceforum/
-* CEF1 C++ API Docs - http://magpcss.org/ceforum/apidocs/
-* CEF3 C++ API Docs - http://magpcss.org/ceforum/apidocs3/
 * Downloads - https://cef-builds.spotifycdn.com/index.html
 * Donations - http://www.magpcss.org/ceforum/donate.php
 
diff --git a/tools/make_distrib.py b/tools/make_distrib.py
index 04ef5a673..7122fae19 100644
--- a/tools/make_distrib.py
+++ b/tools/make_distrib.py
@@ -856,6 +856,10 @@ if mode == 'standard':
   # transfer Doxyfile
   transfer_doxyfile(output_dir, options.quiet)
 
+  # transfer README.md
+  copy_file(os.path.join(cef_dir, 'README.md'), \
+            os.path.join(output_dir, 'README.md'), options.quiet)
+
 if not options.nodocs:
   # generate doc files
   sys.stdout.write("Generating docs...\n")