diff --git a/patches/december_2012/website_cache_refactor.py b/patches/december_2012/website_cache_refactor.py
index 3214345557..5a1f22e604 100644
--- a/patches/december_2012/website_cache_refactor.py
+++ b/patches/december_2012/website_cache_refactor.py
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ def execute():
 	from markdown2 import markdown
 
 	for page in webnotes.conn.sql("""select name, main_section from `tabWeb Page`"""):
-		m = markdown(page[1]).encode("utf8")
+		m = markdown(page[1] or "").encode("utf8")
 		webnotes.conn.set_value("Web Page", page[0], "main_section", m)
 
 	for page in webnotes.conn.sql("""select name, content from `tabBlog`"""):
-		m = markdown(page[1]).encode("utf8")
+		m = markdown(page[1] or "").encode("utf8")
 		webnotes.conn.set_value("Blog", page[0], "content", m)
 
 	# delete website cache
diff --git a/website/web_cache.py b/website/web_cache.py
index 60672d8b7c..a1ab2b99bf 100644
--- a/website/web_cache.py
+++ b/website/web_cache.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import os
 import conf
 import webnotes
 import website.utils
+from webnotes.utils import cstr
 
 template_map = {
 	'Web Page': 'html/web_page.html',
@@ -42,7 +43,6 @@ def get_page_html(page_name, comments=''):
 		comments += "\n\npage load status: cache"
 	
 	# insert comments
-	import webnotes.utils
 	html += """\n<!-- %s -->""" % webnotes.utils.cstr(comments)
 	
 	return html