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 # Grimoire.ca Blog/Wiki
 
 This repository contains the infrastructure for publishing a website, built from a suite of Markdown files and other resources, to Amazon.
+
+## Pre-requisites
+
+You will need:
+
+* [MkDocs](https://mkdocs.org) (`brew install mkdocs`)
+* The AWS CLI (`brew install awscli`), logged in on an account with access to the `grimoire.ca` S3 bucket.
+
+## Building
+
+To prepare this site for deployment, run mkdocs from the project's root directory:
+
+```bash
+mkdocs build
+```
+
+The resulting files will be placed in `site` under the project's root directory, replacing any files already present.
+
+You can also preview the site locally:
+
+```bash
+mkdocs serve
+```
+
+This will automatically rebuild the site every time the files in `docs` change, and will serve them on a web server at <http://127.0.0.1:8000>.
+
+## Publishing
+
+Once the site is built, it can be published to s3:
+
+```bash
+aws s3 sync --delete site/ s3://grimoire.ca/
+```