diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ef0869f..f156cf2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 test*
 
 swap
-_site/*
-tmp/
+./site/*
+./tmp/
diff --git a/make.sh b/make.sh
index 254a13a..c23b978 100755
--- a/make.sh
+++ b/make.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-rootDir='./tmp/'
+rootDir='./site/'
 targetDir='post/'
 
 post() {
@@ -22,33 +22,38 @@ post() {
 	rm -f $full
 }
 
-[[ -z $rootDir/post/ ]] && mkdir -p $rootDir/post
+_help() {
+	echo 'Options: 
+	-p [postDirectory/*] 
+	-r (build root pages) 
+	-s (copy stylesheets)'
+}
+mkdir -p "$rootDir/post"
 
-# root and style page cases where we don't want to do anything else
-case $1 in
-	"s")
-		cp style.css $rootDir
-		cp style.css $rootDir/$targetDir
-		exit 0
-		;;
-	"r")
-		echo 'Building the root pages'
-		targetDir=''
-		post './prebuild/about.md'
-		post './prebuild/links.md'
-		post './prebuild/index.md'
-		exit 0
-		;;
-esac
-
-for file in $@;do
-	post $file
+# TODO: use getopts to clean this traesh up a bit
+while getopts ":srhp:" opt;do
+	case "$opt" in
+		s)
+			cp style.css "$rootDir"	# root stylesheet
+			cp style.css "$rootDir/$targetDir" # post stylesheet
+			exit 0
+			;;
+		r)
+			# Fix targetDir so that it points to the root of the site output
+			targetDir=''
+			post './prebuild/about.md'
+			post './prebuild/links.md'
+			post './prebuild/index.md'
+			exit 0
+			;;
+		p)
+			for file in ${@:2};do
+				#echo $file
+				post $file
+			done
+			;;
+		h)
+			_help;;
+	esac
 done
-
-if [ -z $@ ] 
-then
-	while read line
-	do
-		post $line
-	done < "${1:-/dev/stdin}"
-fi
+_help;