diff --git a/documents/bierbook/index.html b/documents/bierbook/index.html
index d06dd7c3e..ff6e66f98 100644
--- a/documents/bierbook/index.html
+++ b/documents/bierbook/index.html
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Programmers manual</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/main2.css" />
+</head>
+<body>
+<style>body { background: #fff url(/images/style/bg-system.png) repeat-x 0 0 }</style>
+<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Bierbook</h2>
+<h1>New Expo Maintenance - Doing the Bierbook and Seshbook</h1>
+
+<h2><a id="manual">Doing the Bierbook and Seshbook</a></h2>
+
+
 <ul>
 <li><a href="bierbook.tex">bierbook.tex</a></li>
 <li><a href="seshbook.tex">seshbook.tex</a></li>
@@ -6,6 +21,8 @@
 <li><a href="names.txt">names.txt</a></li>
 <li><a href="dates.txt">dates.txt</a></li>
 </ul>
+
+If you can't be bothered to install <a href="https://miktex.org/about">a LaTeX system</a> on your machine, you could always use an online system:  <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/user/subscription/plans">Overleaf.com</a> (free plan, for the moment)
 <pre>
 Last made using MikTeX2.9 on Win7.
 Build profile should be tex -> pdf (because pstricks package is no longer used).
@@ -36,3 +53,5 @@ yfonts
 anyfontsize
 ifthen
 </pre>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/handbook/computing/newyear.html b/handbook/computing/newyear.html
index 0f1f1a86a..e0396a128 100644
--- a/handbook/computing/newyear.html
+++ b/handbook/computing/newyear.html
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ to create a new year column (see below). ]
 
     <h4>Well before Expo as these pages are used in planning</h4>
 <ul>
-<li>Manually edit these HTML pages as lots of other pages link to them and they are not troggle pages. Longer job, replace with a troggle page.
+<li>Manually edit these HTML pages as lots of other pages link to them and they are not troggle pages. Longer job, replace each of these hard-coded HTML pages with a troggle page.
 <ul>
-    <li>Update <a href="/infodx.htm">expoweb/infodx.htm</a> with the new year number (top and bottom). -  130 pages link to this...
-    <li>Update <a href="/pubs.htm">expoweb/pubs.htm</a> with the new year number. -  165 pages link to this...
-
-    <li>edit <var><a href="/index.htm">expoweb/index.htm</a></var> - edit the title and make it link to e.g. <var>expoweb/years/2025/</var> - 1,212 pages link to this...
+    <li>Edit <a href="/infodx.htm">expoweb/infodx.htm</a> with the new year number (top and bottom). -  130 pages link to this...
+    <li>Edit <a href="/pubs.htm">expoweb/pubs.htm</a> with the new year number. -  165 pages link to this...
+    <li>Edit <a href="/index.htm">expoweb/index.htm</a> - edit the title and make it link to e.g. <var>expoweb/years/2025/</var> - 1,212 pages link to this...
 </ul>
-<li><strike>edit <var>troggle/templates/base.html</var> - change the title and add a link to this year's expo. </strike>  &nbsp; Now automatic
+
+<li><strike>edit <var>troggle/templates/base.html</var> - change the title and add a link to this year's expo. </strike>  &nbsp; Now automatic, after 31st Dec.
 <li>edit <var>troggle/templates/walletform.html</var> - change to this coming year
 <li>copy the contents of the previous year's <var>expoweb/years/</var> folder, e.g. /2016/ to /2017/ and edit all the files therein. You should start with at least an index.html and a mission.html
 <li>edit <var>expoweb/folk/folk.csv</var> - see below - just to add a column for the coming year. Until that year column exists, the online system will be unaware that there is an expedition that year.
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ to create a new year column (see below). ]
     <li>Create new subfolders e.g. /2025/ in <var>expofiles/</var>, in each of
         <ul>
         <li>expofiles/writeups/
-        <li><strike>expofiles/photos/</strike>  &nbsp; Now automatic
+        <li><strike>expofiles/photos/</strike>  &nbsp; Now automatic, after 31st Dec.
         <li>expofiles/gpslogs/
         <li>expofiles/accounts/ - optional. Used for archiving after expo.
         <li>expofiles/videos/ - optional. We don't do this much.
         <li><s>expofiles/surveyscans/</s> - this now happens automatically when a wallet is created
        </ul>
-    <li>Test that the bierbook and seshbook LaTeX scripts <var>expoweb/documents/bierbook</var> work on your machine</li>
+    <li>Test that the bierbook and seshbook LaTeX scripts <a href="/documents/bierbook"><var>expoweb/documents/bierbook</var></a> work on your machine. Or use an online LaTeX system to generate them, e.g. <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/user/subscription/plans">Overleaf.com</a> (free plan, for the moment)</li>
     
 </ul>
 
