diff --git a/scripts/build_website.sh b/scripts/build_website.sh
index 822fc3ac..2efff6be 100644
--- a/scripts/build_website.sh
+++ b/scripts/build_website.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 # run this script from the project root using `./scripts/build_docs.sh`
 
+set -e
+
 usage() {
   echo "Usage: $0 [-b]"
   echo ""
@@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ done
 echo "-----------------------------------"
 echo "Building PyTorch3D Docusaurus site"
 echo "-----------------------------------"
-cd website || exit
+cd website
 yarn
 cd ..
 
@@ -49,7 +51,7 @@ mkdir -p "website/_tutorials"
 mkdir -p "website/static/files"
 python scripts/parse_tutorials.py --repo_dir "${cwd}"
 
-cd website || exit
+cd website
 
 if [[ $BUILD_STATIC == true ]]; then
   echo "-----------------------------------"
diff --git a/scripts/publish_website.sh b/scripts/publish_website.sh
index 5c807a5d..ef11b346 100644
--- a/scripts/publish_website.sh
+++ b/scripts/publish_website.sh
@@ -5,45 +5,39 @@
 # This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
-usage() {
-  echo "Usage: $0 [-b]"
-  echo ""
-  echo "Build and push updated PyTorch3D site."
-  echo ""
-  exit 1
-}
 
-# Current directory (needed for cleanup later)
-SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+# Instructions, assuming you are on a fresh pytorch3d checkout on a local
+# drive.
 
-# Make temporary directory
-WORK_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
-cd "${WORK_DIR}" || exit
+# (1) Have a separate checkout of pytorch3d at the head of the gh-pages branch
+# on a local drive. Set the variable GHP to its full path.
+# Any uncommitted changes there will be obliterated.
+# For example
+#   GHP=/path/to/pytorch3d-gh-pages
+#   git clone -b gh-pages https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytorch3d $GHP
 
-# Clone both master & gh-pages branches
-git clone git@github.com:facebookresearch/pytorch3d.git pytorch3d-master
-git clone --branch gh-pages git@github.com:facebookresearch/pytorch3d.git pytorch3d-gh-pages
+# (2) Run this script in this directory with
+#   sudo docker run -it --rm -v $PWD/..:/loc -v $GHP:/ghp continuumio/miniconda3 bash --login /loc/scripts/publish_website.sh
 
-cd pytorch3d-master/website || exit
+# (3) Choose a commit message, commit and push:
+#   cd $GHP && git add .
+#   git commit -m 'Update latest version of site'
+#   git push
 
-# Build site, tagged with "latest" version; baseUrl set to /versions/latest/
-yarn
-yarn run build
+set -e
 
-cd .. || exit
-bash ./scripts/build_website.sh -b
+conda create -y -n myenv python=3.7 nodejs
 
-cd "${WORK_DIR}" || exit
-rm -rf pytorch3d-gh-pages/*
-touch pytorch3d-gh-pages/CNAME
-echo "pytorch3d.org" > pytorch3d-gh-pages/CNAME
-mv pytorch3d-master/website/build/pytorch3d/* pytorch3d-gh-pages/
+# Note: Using bash --login together with the continuumio/miniconda3 image
+# is what lets conda activate work so smoothly.
 
-cd pytorch3d-gh-pages || exit
-git add .
-git commit -m 'Update latest version of site'
-git push
+conda activate myenv
+pip install nbformat==4.4.0 nbconvert==5.3.1 ipywidgets==7.5.1 tornado==4.2 bs4 notebook==5.7.12
+npm install --global yarn
 
-# Clean up
-cd "${SCRIPT_DIR}" || exit
-rm -rf "${WORK_DIR}"
+cd /loc
+bash scripts/build_website.sh -b
+
+rm -rf /ghp/*
+echo "pytorch3d.org" > /ghp/CNAME
+mv /loc/website/build/pytorch3d/* /ghp/
diff --git a/website/README.md b/website/README.md
index 6a4cf47b..bfd420af 100644
--- a/website/README.md
+++ b/website/README.md
@@ -61,13 +61,9 @@ TODO: Add support for latex in markdown in jupyter notebooks and embedded images
 
 ## Build and publish the website
 
-The following script will build the tutorials and the website and push to the gh-pages
-branch of `github.com/facebookresearch/pytorch3d`.
-
-```
-bash scripts/publish_website.sh
-```
-
+To update for a new version, you need to build the tutorials and the website and push to the gh-pages
+branch of `github.com/facebookresearch/pytorch3d`. The instructions in `scripts/publish_website.sh`
+bring it all together.
 
 ## Add a new tutorial