diff --git a/dal/forms.py b/dal/forms.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ecbf9bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dal/forms.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+from django import forms
+from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
+from django.shortcuts import render
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
+
+
+class LoginForm(forms.Form):
+    email = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput())
+    password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput())
+
+    class Meta:
+        fields = ['email', 'password']
+
+    def clean(self):
+        email = self.cleaned_data.get('email')
+        password = self.cleaned_data.get('password')
+        if self.errors:
+            return self.cleaned_data
+        is_auth = authenticate(username=email, password=password)
+        if not is_auth:
+            raise forms.ValidationError(
+                _("Your username and/or password were incorrect."))
+        elif is_auth.validated == 0:
+            raise forms.ValidationError(
+                _("Your account is not activated yet."))
+        return self.cleaned_data
+
+    def clean_email(self):
+        email = self.cleaned_data.get('email')
+        return email
+        # try:
+        #     CustomUser.objects.get(email=email)
+        #     return email
+        # except CustomUser.DoesNotExist:
+        #     raise forms.ValidationError(_("User does not exist"))
+
+    def form_valid(self, form):
+        form.save()
+        return render(self.request, 'useroptions.html', {'user': self.get_context_data()})
+
diff --git a/dal/views.py b/dal/views.py
index 0e8cd19..5ef21ad 100644
--- a/dal/views.py
+++ b/dal/views.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Imports from django
 from django.shortcuts import render
-from django.views.generic import View
+from django.views.generic import View, FormView
 from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, logout
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from django.urls import reverse_lazy
 from django.contrib.auth.tokens import PasswordResetTokenGenerator
 from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
 from .models import ResetToken
+from .forms import LoginForm
 
 # Imports for the extra stuff not in django
 
@@ -96,21 +97,9 @@ class LDAP(object):
 
         return sorted(uidlist)[-1] + 1
 
-class Index(View):
-    def get(self, request):
-        if request.user.is_authenticated:
-            return render(request, 'useroptions.html', { 'user': request.user } )
-        return render(request, 'landing.html')
-
-    def post(self, request):
-        username = request.POST.get('username')
-        password = request.POST.get('password')
-        pwd = r'%s' % password
-        user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=pwd)
-        if user is not None:
-            login(request, user)
-            return render(request, 'useroptions.html', { 'user': user } )
-        return render(request, 'loginfailed.html')
+class Index(FormView):
+    template_name = "landing.html"
+    form_class = LoginForm
 
 class Register(View):
     def get(self, request):