easier to read and removed some pointless branches

make.sh

@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 # compiles new post into target directory
 rootDir='./_site/'
+
+mPageDir='./markdown/page/'
+mPostDir='./markdown/post/'
+
 post() {
-	# check directory existence
-	if [ -f markdown/post/$1 ] 
-	then
-		# CSS file is always relative to the target html location
-		pandoc markdown/post/$1 --css style.css -s -o $rootDir/post/${1%.*}.html
-	else
-		# error message incase file was not found
-		echo "File \"$1\" not found in markdown/post"
-	fi
+	pandoc $mPostDir/$1 --css style.css -s -o $rootDir/post/${1%.*}.html
 }
 
 style() {
@@ -26,13 +22,8 @@ style() {
 }
 
 page() {
-	# we want to enforce maintainence of directory structure
-	if [ -f markdown/pages/$1 ] 
-	then
-		pandoc markdown/pages/$1 --css style.css -s -o $rootDir/page/${1%.*}.html
-	else
-		echo "File \"$1\" not found in markdown/pages"
-	fi
+	pandoc $mPageDir/$1 --css style.css -s -o $rootDir/page/${1%.*}.html
+
 }
 
 # literally just updates the index file nothing else