Index: code-docs/cache.scrbl
==================================================================
--- code-docs/cache.scrbl
+++ code-docs/cache.scrbl
@@ -40,13 +40,10 @@
 
 Creates and initializes the SQLite database cache file (named @filepath{vitreous.sqlite} and located
 in the project root folder) by running queries to create tables in the database if they do not
 exist.
 
-This function is called automatically in @seclink["pollen-rkt"]{@filepath{pollen.rkt}} whenever HTML
-is the target output.
-
 }
 
 @defparam[current-plain-title title-plain non-empty-string? #:value "void"]{
 
 Contains (or sets) the “plain” title (i.e., with no HTML markup) for the current article based on

Index: code-docs/main.scrbl
==================================================================
--- code-docs/main.scrbl
+++ code-docs/main.scrbl
@@ -55,5 +55,6 @@
 @include-section["pollen.scrbl"]  @; pollen.rkt
 @include-section["dust.scrbl"]    @; dust.rkt
 @include-section["snippets-html.scrbl"] @; you get the idea
 @include-section["cache.scrbl"]
 @include-section["crystalize.scrbl"]
+@include-section["other-files.scrbl"]

ADDED   code-docs/other-files.scrbl
Index: code-docs/other-files.scrbl
==================================================================
--- code-docs/other-files.scrbl
+++ code-docs/other-files.scrbl
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#lang scribble/manual
+
+@; SPDX-License-Identifier: BlueOak-1.0.0
+@; This file is licensed under the Blue Oak Model License 1.0.0.
+
+@(require "scribble-helpers.rkt")
+
+@(require (for-label racket/base "../cache.rkt"))
+
+@title[#:tag "other-files"]{Other files}
+
+@section{Home page (@filepath{index.html.pp})}
+
+Simple Pollen preprocessor file that generates the home page.
+
+@section{Keyword Index (@filepath{keyword-index.rkt})}
+
+Through its provided @tt{main} function, builds the keyword index page by pulling all the index
+entries directly from the SQLite cache and sorting them by first letter.
+
+@section{Blog (@filepath{blog.rkt})}
+
+Through its provided @tt{main} function, creates a paginated listing of all @tech{articles} and
+@tech{notes}.
+
+@section{RSS Feed (@filepath{rss-feed.rkt})}
+
+Through its provided @tt{main} function, creates the RSS feed in the file @filepath{feed.xml}. Both
+articles and notes are included. Any article or note with either @racket["all"] or @racket["feed"]
+in its @racket['conceal] meta is excluded.
+
+@section{Cache initialization (@filepath{util/init.rkt})}
+
+Creates and initializes the cache database with @racket[init-cache-db!] and
+@racket[preheat-series!].
+
+@section{New article template (@filepath{util/newpost.rkt})}
+
+Prompts for a title, creates an article with a normalized version of the filename and today’s date,
+and opens the article in an editor.
+
+

Index: index.html.pp
==================================================================
--- index.html.pp
+++ index.html.pp
@@ -68,13 +68,12 @@
 
 ◊url[1]{/blog-pg1.html}
 
 }) 
 ◊; stop for now: (crystalize-index-entries! '|index.html| front-page-body)
-◊(display-to-file (html$-page-footer) "scribbled/site-footer.html" #:exists 'replace)
 
 <main> 
   ◊(->html front-page-body #:splice? #t)
   ◊(html$-series-list)
 </main> 
 </body>
 </html>

Index: makefile
==================================================================
--- makefile
+++ makefile
@@ -25,13 +25,19 @@
 web: ## Rebuild all web content (not PDFs)
 
 # The file vitreous.sqlite is a cache of the rendered HTML and metadata. If it is older than any of
 # its dependencies (or missing) all of the articles will be rebuilt. Its dependencies are also on
 # the Pollen cache watchlist (see pollen.rkt)
+#
+# After articles are rendered in this way, all the series pages are "touched", to trick Pollen into
+# re-rendering those pages without relying on its cache. Without this step, it seems those pages
+# are rendered “transitively” during the article render, and the listings are incomplete.
 vitreous.sqlite: $(core-files) $(html-deps) template.html.p
+	racket -tm util/init.rkt
 	raco pollen setup -p articles/
 	raco pollen render -p -t html articles/*.poly.pm
+	touch series/*.poly.pm
 	raco pollen setup -p series/
 	raco pollen render -p -t html series/*.poly.pm
 	rm -f template.html series/template.html
 	tidy -quiet -modify -indent --wrap 100 --wrap-attributes no --tidy-mark no articles/*.html || true
 	tidy -quiet -modify -indent --wrap 100 --wrap-attributes no --tidy-mark no series/*.html || true

Index: pollen.rkt
==================================================================
--- pollen.rkt
+++ pollen.rkt
@@ -40,13 +40,10 @@
                snippets-html.rkt
                dust.rkt
                cache.rkt
                crystalize.rkt))))
 
-(case (current-poly-target)
-  [(html) (init-cache-db!)])
-
 ;; Macro for defining tag functions that automatically branch based on the 
 ;; current output format and the list of poly-targets in the setup module.
 ;; Use this macro when you know you will need keyword arguments.
 ;;
 (define-syntax (poly-branch-kwargs-tag stx)

ADDED   util/init.rkt
Index: util/init.rkt
==================================================================
--- util/init.rkt
+++ util/init.rkt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#lang racket/base
+
+(require racket/file
+         pollen/setup
+         "../cache.rkt"
+         "../snippets-html.rkt")
+
+(provide main)
+
+(define (main)
+  (init-cache-db!)
+  (preheat-series!)
+  
+  (display-to-file (html$-page-footer)
+                   (build-path (current-project-root) "scribbled" "site-footer.html")
+                   #:exists 'replace))