diff --git a/lib/dartdoc.dart b/lib/dartdoc.dart
index 1469b83fdb..10cd8ea8a1 100644
--- a/lib/dartdoc.dart
+++ b/lib/dartdoc.dart
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ const String DEFAULT_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = 'docs';
 /// directory.
 class DartDoc {
 
-  //TODO(keertip): implement excludes
   List<String> _excludes;
   Directory _rootDir;
   final CSS css = new CSS();
@@ -45,7 +44,16 @@ class DartDoc {
     Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
     stopwatch.start();
     var files = findFilesToDocumentInPackage(_rootDir.path);
-    libraries.addAll(parseLibraries(files));
+    List<LibraryElement> libs = [];
+    libs.addAll(parseLibraries(files));
+    // remove excluded libraries
+    _excludes.forEach(
+        (pattern) => libs.removeWhere((l) => l.name.startsWith(pattern)));
+    libs.removeWhere(
+        (LibraryElement library) => _excludes.contains(library.name));
+    libs.sort(elementCompare);
+    libraries.addAll(libs);
+
     generator = new GeneratorHelper(libraries);
     // create the out directory
     out = new Directory(DEFAULT_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY);
@@ -79,6 +87,7 @@ class DartDoc {
     context.sourceFactory = sourceFactory;
 
     files.forEach((String filePath) {
+      print('parsing ${filePath}...');
       Source source = new FileBasedSource.con1(new JavaFile(filePath));
       if (context.computeKindOf(source) == SourceKind.LIBRARY) {
         LibraryElement library = context.computeLibraryElement(source);
@@ -108,6 +117,7 @@ class DartDoc {
   void generatePackage() {
     var packageName = getPackageName(_rootDir.path);
     var packageDesc = getPackageDescription(_rootDir.path);
+    var packageVersion = getPackageVersion(_rootDir.path);
     if (packageName.isNotEmpty) {
       File f = joinFile(new Directory(out.path), ['${packageName}_package.html']);
       print('generating ${f.path}');
@@ -122,7 +132,9 @@ class DartDoc {
       html.startTag('div', attributes: "class='span3'");
       html.startTag('ul', attributes: 'class="nav nav-tabs nav-stacked left-nav"');
       html.startTag('li', attributes: 'class="active"', newLine: false);
-      html.write('<a href="${packageName}">' '<i class="chevron-nav icon-white icon-chevron-right"></i> ' '${packageName}</a>');
+      html.write('<a href="${packageName}">' 
+        '<i class="chevron-nav icon-white icon-chevron-right"></i> ' 
+        '${packageName}-${packageVersion}</a>');
       html.endTag(); //li
       html.endTag(); //ul
       html.endTag();
@@ -147,8 +159,6 @@ class DartDoc {
 
   }
 
-
-
   void generateLibrary(LibraryElement library) {
     File f = joinFile(new Directory(out.path), [getFileNameFor(library)]);
     print('generating ${f.path}');
@@ -165,18 +175,11 @@ class DartDoc {
     // left nav
     html.startTag('div', attributes: "class='span3'");
     html.startTag('ul', attributes: 'class="nav nav-tabs nav-stacked left-nav"');
-//      for (LibraryElement lib in libraries) {
-//        if (lib == library) {
     html.startTag('li', attributes: 'class="active"', newLine: false);
-    html.write('<a href="${getFileNameFor(library)}">' '<i class="chevron-nav icon-white icon-chevron-right"></i> ' '${library.name}</a>');
-//        } else {
-//          html.startTag('li', newLine: false);
-//          html.write('<a href="${getFileNameFor(lib)}">'
-//          '<i class="chevron-nav icon-chevron-right"></i> '
-//          '${lib.name}</a>');
-//        }
+    html.write('<a href="${getFileNameFor(library)}">' 
+        '<i class="chevron-nav icon-white icon-chevron-right"></i> ' 
+        '${library.name}</a>');
     html.endTag(); // li
-//      }
     html.endTag(); // ul.nav
     html.endTag(); // div.span3
 
diff --git a/lib/src/package_utils.dart b/lib/src/package_utils.dart
index d17ce40dc2..c9c7f4a89f 100644
--- a/lib/src/package_utils.dart
+++ b/lib/src/package_utils.dart
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
-
 library dartdoc.package_utils;
 
 import 'dart:io';
@@ -10,17 +9,19 @@ import 'dart:io';
 import 'package:path/path.dart' as path;
 import 'package:yaml/yaml.dart';
 
-
 String getPackageName(String directoryName)  =>
     _getPubspec(directoryName)['name'];
 
- Map _getPubspec(String directoryName) {
-   var pubspecName = path.join(directoryName, 'pubspec.yaml');
-   File pubspec = new File(pubspecName);
-   if (!pubspec.existsSync()) return {'name': ''};
-   var contents = pubspec.readAsStringSync();
-   return loadYaml(contents);
- }
-
- String getPackageDescription(String directoryName) =>
-   _getPubspec(directoryName)['description'];
\ No newline at end of file
+Map _getPubspec(String directoryName) {
+  var pubspecName = path.join(directoryName, 'pubspec.yaml');
+  File pubspec = new File(pubspecName);
+  if (!pubspec.existsSync()) return {'name': ''};
+  var contents = pubspec.readAsStringSync();
+  return loadYaml(contents);
+}
+
+String getPackageDescription(String directoryName) =>
+  _getPubspec(directoryName)['description'];
+ 
+String getPackageVersion(String directoryName) =>
+  _getPubspec(directoryName)['version'];