diff --git a/shakebook.cabal b/shakebook.cabal
--- a/shakebook.cabal
+++ b/shakebook.cabal
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 --
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 --
--- hash: 1a53af50ae1f33a62c5aa274a9c61088f181e72ed6fff81637c4ebb9e9f0e45e
+-- hash: 49b98e657e822e6db488c7a2cb74ddc8689861654dde1f9874317021db76b617
 
 name:           shakebook
-version:        0.2.0.1
+version:        0.2.0.2
 synopsis:       Shake-based technical documentation generator; HTML & PDF
 description:    Shakebook is a documentation generator aimed at covering all the bases for mathematical, technical and scientific diagrams and typesetting. Shakebook provides combinators for taking markdown files and combining them into documents, but allowing the user to control how. Shakebook provides general combinators for templating single pages, cofree comonads for representing tables of contents, and zipper comonads for representing pagers.
 category:       Web
diff --git a/src/Shakebook/Data.hs b/src/Shakebook/Data.hs
--- a/src/Shakebook/Data.hs
+++ b/src/Shakebook/Data.hs
@@ -156,9 +156,9 @@
                    -> (Value -> Value) -- ^ Additional modifiers for the value.
                    -> FilePath -- ^ The out filepath
                    -> m Value
-genBuildPageAction template getData withData out = do
+genBuildPageAction template getData withData out = view sbConfigL >>= \SbConfig{..} -> do
   logInfo $ displayShow $ "Generating page with fullpath " <> out
-  pageT <- liftAction $ compileTemplate' template
+  pageT <- liftAction $ compileTemplate' (sbSrcDir </> template)
   dataT <- withData . typicalUrlEnricher <$> getData out
   logDebug $ displayShow dataT
   writeFile' out . T.unpack $ substitute pageT dataT
diff --git a/src/Shakebook/Defaults.hs b/src/Shakebook/Defaults.hs
--- a/src/Shakebook/Defaults.hs
+++ b/src/Shakebook/Defaults.hs
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
          \xs -> \out -> runShakebookA r $ do
              ys <- mapM readMarkdownFile' toc
              zs <- mapM readMarkdownFile' xs
-             void $ genBuildPageAction (sbSrcDir </> tmpl)
+             void $ genBuildPageAction tmpl
                       (readMarkdownFile' . m)
                       (withData
                      . withJSON (genTocNavbarData (e <$> ys))
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
                     -> m ()
 defaultPagerPattern fp tmpl f g h w = ask >>= \r -> view sbConfigL >>= \SbConfig{..} -> liftRules $
   comonadStoreRuleGen (sbOutDir </> fp) (f . drop 1 . fromJust . stripPrefix sbOutDir) (g . drop 1 . fromJust . stripPrefix sbOutDir) (runShakebookA r . (w <=< h))
-  (\a -> void <$> runShakebookA r . genBuildPageAction (sbSrcDir </> tmpl) (const $ return a) id)
+  (\a -> void <$> runShakebookA r . genBuildPageAction tmpl (const $ return a) id)
 
 defaultPostIndexPatterns :: MonadShakebookRules r m
                          => [FilePattern]
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
       let i = (-<.> ".md") . drop 1 . fromJust . stripPrefix sbOutDir $ out
       let k = fromJust $ elemIndex i (fst <$> sortedPosts)
       let z = fromJust $ seek k <$> zipper (snd <$> sortedPosts)
-      void $ runShakebookA r $ genBuildPageAction (sbSrcDir </> tmpl)
+      void $ runShakebookA r $ genBuildPageAction tmpl
                                 (const $ extract <$> extData z)
                                 id out
 
@@ -287,6 +287,10 @@
   phony "clean" $ do
       putInfo $ "Cleaning files in " ++ sbOutDir
       removeFilesAfter sbOutDir ["//*"]
+
+defaultSinglePagePhony :: MonadShakebookRules r m => String -> FilePath -> m ()
+defaultSinglePagePhony x y = view sbConfigL >>= \SbConfig {..} -> liftRules $ 
+  phony x $ need [sbOutDir </> y]
 
 {-|
   Default "shake statics" phony rule. automatically runs need on "\<out\>\/thing\/\*" for every
diff --git a/test/Spec.hs b/test/Spec.hs
--- a/test/Spec.hs
+++ b/test/Spec.hs
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
   defaultStaticsPatterns   ["css//*", "images//*", "js//*", "webfonts//*"]
   defaultStaticsPhony
 
+  defaultSinglePagePhony    "index" "index.html"
   defaultPostsPhony         ["posts/*.md"]
   defaultPostIndexPhony     ["posts/*.md"]
 
@@ -101,6 +102,6 @@
    lf <- newLogFunc (setLogMinLevel LevelInfo logOptions')
    let f = ShakebookEnv (fst lf) sbc
    shake shakeOptions $ want ["clean"] >> runShakebook f rules
-   shake shakeOptions $ want ["docs", "month-index", "posts-index", "tag-index", "posts"]  >> runShakebook f rules
+   shake shakeOptions $ want ["index", "docs", "month-index", "posts-index", "tag-index", "posts"]  >> runShakebook f rules
    defaultMain $ tests xs
    snd lf