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 You can easily use GitHub's [web-based editor](https://github.com/blog/905-edit-like-an-ace) to edit the website online. That is if you don't want to edit your files locally.
 
 ###Can We Discontinue the Use of Jekyll
-It is understandable that not everybody would be comfortable using [Jekyll]. Therefore, if the teaching staff would like stop using this way to develop the website, they could simple stop using this repository and directly edit the files on `aludra`. It may be a good idea to remove the post-receive hook in this case so any changes to the repo don't override the website.
+It is understandable that not everybody would be comfortable using [Jekyll]. Therefore, if the teaching staff would like stop using this way to develop the website, they could simply stop using this repository and directly edit the files on `aludra`. It may be a good idea to remove the post-receive hook in this case so any changes to the repo don't override the website.
 
 ##Setting-up Website Development Environment
 The server that sets the website up once a commit is made to the repository will use [Jekyll] to render the website. So, there is no real need to install [Jekyll] locally unless you wish to test things out before commiting to the repo.