diff --git a/contrib/templates/default/post_fail.mustache b/contrib/templates/default/post_fail.mustache
index 36c63ca..eeb9b2e 100644
--- a/contrib/templates/default/post_fail.mustache
+++ b/contrib/templates/default/post_fail.mustache
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 <html>
+  <meta charset="utf-8" />
+  <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{prefix}}static/site.css"></link>
   <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; {{redirect_url}}" />
   <body>
     <p>post failed: {{reason}}</p>
diff --git a/contrib/templates/default/post_success.mustache b/contrib/templates/default/post_success.mustache
index 8ea0136..c55c6b1 100644
--- a/contrib/templates/default/post_success.mustache
+++ b/contrib/templates/default/post_success.mustache
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
  - message_id ( the value of the Message-ID header in the post we made, the truncated sha1 of this is the >>posthash )
 }}
 <html>
+  <meta charset="utf-8" />
+  <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{prefix}}static/site.css"></link>
   <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; {{redirect_url}}" />
   <body>
     <pre>posted as {{message_id}}</pre>
