OP: regarding this comment in your README: "I'm not sure if there's a better way to organize the gh-pages branch so it's convenient to manage and use via Github

OP: regarding this comment in your README: "I'm not sure if there's a better way to organize the gh-pages branch so it's convenient to manage and use via Github Pages at the same time." You can, in the repo settings, change the default branch to gh-pages: http://screencast.com/t/VTHVE6oXRT http://screencast.com/t/VTHVE6oXRT Then you can delete the master branch if you want.