diff --git a/productMods/templates/freemarker/visualization/entitycomparison/entityComparisonErrorCommonBody.ftl b/productMods/templates/freemarker/visualization/entitycomparison/entityComparisonErrorCommonBody.ftl
index e5d9db32..c8fa5141 100644
--- a/productMods/templates/freemarker/visualization/entitycomparison/entityComparisonErrorCommonBody.ftl
+++ b/productMods/templates/freemarker/visualization/entitycomparison/entityComparisonErrorCommonBody.ftl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <#assign standardVisualizationURLRoot ="/visualization">
 
-<#assign organizationVivoProfileURL = "${urls.base}/individual?uri=${organizationURI?url}">
+<#assign organizationVivoProfileURL = "${urls.base}/individual?uri=${organizationURI}">
 <#assign temporalGraphURL = '${urls.base}${standardVisualizationURLRoot}?vis=${otherVisType}&uri=${organizationURI}&labelField=label'>
 
 <div id="error-container">
diff --git a/themes/vivo-basic/templates/page-home.ftl b/themes/vivo-basic/templates/page-home.ftl
index f03d706b..4156cc0c 100644
--- a/themes/vivo-basic/templates/page-home.ftl
+++ b/themes/vivo-basic/templates/page-home.ftl
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         <#include "menu.ftl">
  
         <#-- vivo-basic continues to display home tab content on the home page -->
-        ${homeTabContent}
+        ${homeTabContent!}
         
         <#include "footer.ftl">
     </body>