diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 90c98b6f..93393475 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -75,11 +75,9 @@ Pages all live in the `docs/pages` sub-directory, and are written in markdown.
 To build the webpage locally (for testing)
 
 1. [Install jekyll]
-2. Run `bundle install` from the `docs/` directory of this repository to
-   install dependencies.
-3. Run `bundle exec jekyll serve` from the root directory of this repository.
-   This should fire up a local web server and tell you its address. By default
-   the server will automatically refresh the HTML pages if any changes are made
+2. Run `make serve` from the `docs/` directory of this repository to
+   install dependencies and start a local web server.
+   The server will automatically refresh the HTML pages if any changes are made
    to the markdown sources.
 
 See the [jekyll docs] for more info.
diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..930f9095
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+SHELL := /bin/bash
+.PHONY: help serve build install clean check
+
+help: ## Show this help
+	@echo
+	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_0-9-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) \
+		| awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%s\033[0m|%s\n", $$1, $$2}' \
+        | column -t -s '|'
+	@echo
+
+serve: install ## Start a local server and serve the site
+	bundle exec jekyll serve
+
+build: install ## Build the site
+	bundle exec jekyll build
+
+install: check ## Pull all jekyll dependencies
+	bundle install
+
+clean: ## Remove build files
+	rm -rf _site
+
+check: ## Check ruby (bundle) is installed
+	@command -v bundle &> /dev/null || { echo >&2 "Please install ruby >= 2.7 to use Jekyll"; exit 1; }