added a note on cloning submodules when you forgot to do it in the initial commit

README.md

@@ -24,8 +24,11 @@ The other one, 'plugins-custom', consists of plugins that we wrote ourself.
 
 To clone both the varia.website and pelican-plugins repository, add the --recurse-submodules option in your git clone command:
 
-`git clone https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/varia.website.git --recurse-submodules`
+`$ git clone https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/varia.website.git --recurse-submodules`
 
+If you forgot to clone with the submodile argument, you can still do it with the following command:
+
+`$ git submodule update --init --recursive`
 
 ## Install
 
@@ -35,10 +38,14 @@ $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 
 You can make use of the makefile, for example by running the following command to start a python server:
 
-$ make devserver
+`$ make devserver`
 
 Visit the website at localhost:8000
 
+To see what is in the makefile, try:
+
+`$ make help`
+
 ## Update submodules
 
 We are currently using two submodules:
@@ -48,11 +55,11 @@ We are currently using two submodules:
 
 To update these submodules within your (already) cloned repository, first init the submodule, and then update it:
 
-    cd /path/to/submodule
+`cd /path/to/submodule`
 
-    git submodule init
+`git submodule init`
 
-    git submodule update
+`git submodule update`
 
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