diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Redisign of dmz.rs .
 
 Run
 
-```
+```sh
 python atom_gen.py
 python prep.py
 python build_pages.py
@@ -18,24 +18,26 @@ Complete website will be contained in `site/`. You can copy this to server.
 
 To start a development server, first build site, then run (possibly with `sudo`)
 
-```
+```sh
 nginx -p . -c nginx.dev.conf
 ```
 
 To stop it:
 
-```
+```sh
 nginx -p . -s stop
 ```
 
 ## Events
 
 To update events, update the `events.csv` then run commands
-```
+
+```sh
 python build_pages.py # builds html out of csv
 python image_poster.py # generates images for events
 ```
 
+
 ## TODO:
 
 - [x] create page builder
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..50fd310c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+cairosvg
+markdown
+freetype-py
+python-dateutil