diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index eb81376..010c0f4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,33 +8,38 @@ REMOTE = sdk@codevoid.de:/home/www/htdocs/shagen
 all: build-and-upload-all
 	@echo "done."
 
-# Create the photo galleries and create the index and preview html
-# pages in site/, so they get parsed in the compile step
+# Create the photo galleries and create the index and preview html pages.
 PHOTODIRS !=	find photos/* -maxdepth 0 -mindepth 0 -type d
 photos: ${PHOTODIRS}
 	mkdir -p ${SITE}/photos
 	cd photos && sh ${SCRIPTS}/mkphotoindex.sh > index.html
-	find photos -type f -not -name "*.html" -exec install -D {} www/{} \;
-	find photos -type f -name "*.html" -exec install -D {} site/{} \;
+	find photos -type f \( -not -name "*.html" \
+			       -not -name "*.txt" \
+			       -not -name "*.meta" \
+			\) -exec install -D {} www/{} \;
+	find photos -type f \( -name "*.html" \
+			    -o -name "*.meta" \
+			\) -exec install -D {} site/{} \;
+${PHOTODIRS}:
+	cd "$@" && sh ${SCRIPTS}/mkphotos.sh > index.html
 
+# (manual step) - it takes some time to optimize all images and it's not really necessary.
 optimize:
 	find photos -name "*.jpg" -type f -exec jpegoptim -w 12 --all-progressive --strip-all "{}" +
 
+# create the uugrn test calendar
 calendar:
 	mkdir -p ${SITE}/uugcal
 	cd ${SITE}/uugcal && sh ${SCRIPTS}/mkuugcalendar.sh > index.html
 
-${PHOTODIRS}:
-	cd "$@" && sh ${SCRIPTS}/mkphotos.sh > index.html
-
 # invoke zod and compile the website into the www/ dir
 compile:
 	mkdir -p ${WWW}
 	zod ${SITE} ${WWW}
 
 # after mixing different generators in the compile step, let's tidy and
-# indent the output properly (XXX is there a tool that does _only_
-# indent?)
+# indent the output properly. XXX is there a tool that does _only_
+# indent? We don't need all the other tidy magic here...
 tidy:
 	find ${WWW} -type f -name "*.html" \
 		-exec tidy -q -i -m -c -w 120 -f /dev/null {} \;
@@ -54,17 +59,13 @@ fixperms:
 	doas chmod -R ugo+wrX,go-w ${WWW}
 
 # we can upload to the local and the remote webserver at the same time
-upload-local: stagit
+upload-local:
 	doas rsync -a --delete ${WWW}/ ${LOCAL}/
-upload-remote: stagit
+upload-remote:
 	doas rsync -a --delete -e ssh ${WWW}/ ${REMOTE}/
 upload-all: upload-local upload-remote
 
-build:
-	make clean; \
-	make photos; \
-	make stagit; \
-	make calendar; \
+build: photos calendar stagit
 	make compile; \
 	make tidy; \
 	make fixperms;
diff --git a/scripts/mkphotos.sh b/scripts/mkphotos.sh
index 77d2000..4b26895 100644
--- a/scripts/mkphotos.sh
+++ b/scripts/mkphotos.sh
@@ -59,12 +59,12 @@ do
     then
         echo "<h1>$TITLE</h1>" > "${_file_html}"
         echo "<p>File: ${_file} (<a href=\"/photos/$DIR/${_file}\" target=_blank>Open Original</a>)</p>" >> "${_file_html}"
-        echo "<p><img class=\"photo-mid\" src=\"/photos/$DIR/${_file_mid}\"></p>" >> "${_file_html}"
+        echo "<p><img class=\"photo-mid\" alt=\"Preview Image ${_count}\" src=\"/photos/$DIR/${_file_mid}\"></p>" >> "${_file_html}"
         [ -f "${_file_descr}" ] && cat "${_file_descr}" >> "${_file_html}"
         echo "<p><a href=index.html>Back to Index</a></p>" >> "${_file_html}"
     fi
 
-    echo "<td class=\"photo-td\" ><a href=\"/photos/$DIR/${_file_html}\"><img class=\"photo-img\" src=\"${_file_thm}\"></a></td>"
+    echo "<td class=\"photo-td\" ><a href=\"/photos/$DIR/${_file_html}\"><img alt=\"Thumbnail Image ${_count}\" class=\"photo-img\" src=\"${_file_thm}\"></a></td>"
     if [ $(( _count % 3 )) -eq 0  ]
     then
         echo "</tr><tr>"
diff --git a/scripts/reposync.sh b/scripts/reposync.sh
index 9a098cb..88b977b 100755
--- a/scripts/reposync.sh
+++ b/scripts/reposync.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ add_repo() {(
     mkdir -p www/code/${_dir}
     cp site/code/*.{css,png} www/code/${_dir}/
     cd www/code/${_dir}
-    stagit -u https://stefanhagen.de/code ${_fulldir}
+    stagit -u https://stefanhagen.de/code/ -l 100 ${_fulldir}
 )}
 
 mkdir -p code