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 # Distill Templates
 
+This is the repository for the distill web framework. If you're interesting in just using the framework to write an article for the [Distill journal](http://distill.pub), visit http://distill.pub/guide/. If you're interested in submitting pull requests or developing on the framework itself, read on.
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 ## Development
 
-Run `yarn start` to start a watching build rollup server.
+Run `yarn start` to start a watching build rollup server. To view the sample pages in the repo, you can run `yarn serve` as a separate process which starts a static server. `yarn build` will run a one-time build.
 
 ## Testing