to build: mkvirtualenv getpython3 pip install blogofile cd site blogofile build open _site/index.html If you install fabric, you can run: fab build_site Working with the styles: install lessc (on ubuntu: apt-get install npm, then npm install less) cd site ./build-styles.bash Alternatively, you can seek out your own less compiler. See the build-styles.bash script for which less file to compile to where. During development, it may be easier to use less.js which will compile the less styles into css per-page-view. To do this, see the comments in head.mako (basically uncomment 2 lines, and comment another -- don't forget to switch back before deploying to prod).