diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a63d82e0..68c40cb8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,29 +18,33 @@ Requirements
 You need to have installed on your local machine
 * Git
 * Python 2.6 or later
-* Django and other Python libraries
+* Django (~1.8) and other Python libraries
 
 On a Debian- or Ubuntu-based system, it may suffice (untested) to run
-  $ sudo apt-get install git-core python-django python-django-south python-simplejson
+```
+$ sudo apt-get install git-core python-django python-django-south python-simplejson
+```
 
 On Mac OS, the easiest way may be to install pip:
   http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html
 and then
-  $ pip install Django
-
+```
+$ pip install Django==1.8
+```
 
 Initial setup
 -------------
-
-  $ python website/manage.py syncdb && python website/manage.py migrate
-  $ mkdir articles
-
+```
+$ python website/manage.py syncdb && python website/manage.py migrate && mkdir articles
+```
 
 Running NewsDiffs Locally
 -------------------------
 
 Do the initial setup above.  Then to start the webserver for testing:
-  $ python website/manage.py runserver
+```
+$ python website/manage.py runserver
+```
 
 and visit http://localhost:8000/
 
@@ -51,19 +55,23 @@ Running the scraper
 Do the initial setup above.  You will also need additional Python
 libraries; on a Debian- or Ubuntu-based system, it may suffice
 (untested) to run
-  $ sudo apt-get install python-bs4 python-beautifulsoup
+```
+$ sudo apt-get install python-bs4 python-beautifulsoup
+```
 
 on a Mac, you will want something like
-
- $ pip install beautifulsoup4
- $ pip install beautifulsoup
- $ pip install html5lib
-
+```
+$ pip install beautifulsoup4
+$ pip install beautifulsoup
+$ pip install html5lib
+```
 Note that we need two versions of BeautifulSoup, both 3.2 and 4.0;
 some websites are parsed correctly in only one version.
 
 Then run
-  $ python website/manage.py scraper
+```
+$ python website/manage.py scraper
+```
 
 This will populate the articles repository with a list of current news
 articles.  This is a snapshot at a single time, so the website will
@@ -77,9 +85,9 @@ overwritten each run) and errors to /tmp/newsdiffs/logging_errs (which
 is cumulative).
 
 To run the scraper every hour, run something like:
-
- $ while true; do python website/manage.py scraper; sleep 60m; done
-
+```
+ $while true; do python website/manage.py scraper; sleep 60m; done
+```
 or make a cron job.
 
 Adding new sites to the scraper
@@ -92,13 +100,13 @@ parsers/__init__.py .  You need to
       subclass of BaseParser (in parsers/baseparser.py).  Model it off
       the other parsers in that directory.  You can test the parser
       with by running, e.g.,
-
+```
 $ python parsers/test_parser.py bbc.BBCParser
-
+```
       which will output a list of URLs to track, and
-
+```
 $ python parsers/test_parser.py bbc.BBCParser http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21649494
-
+```
       which will output the text that NewsDiffs would store.
 
   (2) Add the parser to 'parsers' in parsers/__init__.py
diff --git a/website/manage.py b/website/manage.py
index 6fd85def..333e602f 100755
--- a/website/manage.py
+++ b/website/manage.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "website.settings")
-    sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.getcwd()))
+    sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
     from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
 
     execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
diff --git a/website/settings_dev.py b/website/settings_dev.py
index ea2d7d98..a62e8ab5 100644
--- a/website/settings_dev.py
+++ b/website/settings_dev.py
@@ -83,6 +83,5 @@
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
     'django.contrib.sessions',
     'django.contrib.sites',
-    'south',
     'frontend',
 )
diff --git a/website/settings_main.py b/website/settings_main.py
index a436069e..6bb048da 100644
--- a/website/settings_main.py
+++ b/website/settings_main.py
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
     'django.contrib.sessions',
     'django.contrib.sites',
-    'south',
     'frontend',
 )