diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+/www-root
+theindex.*
+
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
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+++ b/Makefile
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+#!/bin/sh
+# Mike Gerwitz's personal configuration build
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2015 Mike Gerwitz
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+##
+
+.PHONY: default tangle-and-weave
+
+default: tangle-and-weave
+
+tangle-and-weave:
+	emacs --batch -l project.el
+
+install:
+	stow -vd . -t "$(HOME)" --ignore='^_|.*\.(org|inc)$$' src
+
+uninstall:
+	stow -vd . -t "$(HOME)" -D src
diff --git a/project.el b/project.el
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+++ b/project.el
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+;; Tangle configuration files and weave documentation
+;;
+;;  Copyright (C) 2015 Mike Gerwitz
+;;
+;;  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;;  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+;;  (at your option) any later version.
+;;
+;;  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;;  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;  GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;
+;;  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+(package-initialize)
+
+(require 'ox-publish)
+
+;; FIXME: we're relying on the fact that we do not yet have a hierarchy
+(defconst html-nav-bar
+  "<nav id=\"nav-rel\">
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href=\"./\">Home</a></li>
+  </ul>
+</nav>")
+
+(setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil
+      org-src-fontify-natively   t
+
+      org-publish-project-alist
+      `(("config-html"
+         :base-directory "src"
+         :publishing-directory "www-root"
+         :recursive t
+         :base-extension "org$"
+         :exclude "_inc"
+
+         :headline-levels 5
+         :section-numbers t
+
+         :makeindex t
+
+         :html-html5-fancy t
+         :html-head-include-default-style nil
+         :html-preamble ,html-nav-bar
+
+         :publishing-function my/org-publish-tangle)))
+
+(defun my/org-publish-tangle (plist filename pub-dir)
+  (org-babel-tangle-file filename)
+  (org-html-publish-to-html plist filename pub-dir))
+
+(org-publish "config-html")