diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index da0c3bc..0000000
--- a/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-# simple_blog
diff --git a/common/get_month_name.php b/common/get_month_name.php
index eaf67f5..17bbf18 100644
--- a/common/get_month_name.php
+++ b/common/get_month_name.php
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?php
+//Parses it's passed input to convert it to a month name.
 function get_month_name($passed_var){
   switch($passed_var){
     case "01":
diff --git a/common/h1_month.php b/common/h1_month.php
index 2b9e36c..09a9795 100644
--- a/common/h1_month.php
+++ b/common/h1_month.php
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?php
+//Sets the proper level 1 heading for the folder.
 include_once ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/get_month_name.php');
 $current_dir = basename(getcwd());
 $named_month = get_month_name($current_dir);
diff --git a/common/header.php b/common/header.php
index fae4a98..7b8c202 100644
--- a/common/header.php
+++ b/common/header.php
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html lang="en-US">
 <?php
-  function Title() {
+  //Sets the page title based on the name of the current directory
+  function Title() {//Needs cleanup.
     //~ $new_title = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
     
     //~ $new_title = preg_replace("/^^\//i", "", $new_title);
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
 ?>
 <head>
   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
-  <?php
+  <?php//If a tags file is present parse it and add any tags found to the renderd page's metadata.
     if(file_exists('tags')){
       $tag_data_raw = fopen('tags',"r");
       $tag_data = fread($tag_data_raw, filesize('tags'));
diff --git a/common/index.php b/common/index.php
index eb72866..f004ae0 100644
--- a/common/index.php
+++ b/common/index.php
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 <?php
+  //The common file used to render pages on the blog.
   include_once ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/header.php');
   include_once ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/menu.php');
-  if (file_exists('article.md')){
+  //Looks for an article.md to see if the current directory is an article or not
+  //If it is not then it is a menu page.
+  if (file_exists('article.md')){ 
     include_once ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/md_read.php');
   } else {
     include_once ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/h1_month.php');
diff --git a/common/page_format.js b/common/page_format.js
index 26b6cec..d36a48f 100644
--- a/common/page_format.js
+++ b/common/page_format.js
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+//
 function format_page(){//Set the title of the page based on the main header, <h1>, tag.le != '' )){
   if ( document.getElementsByTagName('h1').length !== 0){
     document.title = document.getElementsByTagName('h1')[0].innerText;
   }
-  //detect if the page contains code blocks to be highlighted and loads the prisim.js and prism.css files to accomplish this.
+  //Detect if the page contains code blocks to be highlighted and loads the 
+  //prisim.js and prism.css files if codeblocks are found.
   code_tag = document.getElementsByTagName('code').length;
   if ( code_tag !== 0 ){
     var script = document.createElement('script');
@@ -15,11 +17,14 @@ function format_page(){//Set the title of the page based on the main header, <h1
     document.head.appendChild(script);
     document.head.appendChild(style_sheet);
   }
-  if ( document.getElementById("font_btns") ){//Show the font selection buttons.
+  //Sets the displayed fontsize.
+  //This functionality won't work without JavaScript enabled. For this reason the  
+  //buttons won't be shown if this script isn't run.
+  if ( document.getElementById("font_btns") ){//Show the font selection buttons. 
     document.getElementById("font_btns").style.display = 'inline';
-    var font_size = read_cookie("font_size");
+    var font_size = read_cookie("font_size");//reads a saved value for fontsize from the site cookie
     if ( font_size != "" || font_size != "medium" ){
-      font_set(font_size);
+      font_set(font_size);//insure a sane default
     }
   }
   if ( document.getElementById("search_inputs") ){//Show the search box and button on the tags page.
@@ -43,7 +48,7 @@ function format_page(){//Set the title of the page based on the main header, <h1
     });
   }
 }
-function font_set(size_to_set){
+function font_set(size_to_set){//Set a cookie to remember the fontsize selection.
   document.getElementById("article").style.fontSize = size_to_set;
   set_cookie("font_size",size_to_set);
 }
@@ -52,7 +57,7 @@ function focus_element(element_id){
   ele_to_focus.focus();
   ele_to_focus.select();
 }
-function tag_search(){
+function tag_search(){//searches in the avaliable tags and displays all articles matching the searched tag.
   var search_input, filter, tag_list, li, a, i;
   search_input = document.getElementById("tag_sort");
   filter = search_input.value.toUpperCase();
@@ -66,9 +71,8 @@ function tag_search(){
       li[i].style.display = "none";
     }
   }
-  
 }
-function title_search(){
+function title_search(){//searches for matches in the article titles rather than tags. Allows more granular search
   var search_input, filter, tag_list, li_list, ol, a, i;
   search_input = document.getElementById("title_sort");
   filter = search_input.value.toUpperCase();
@@ -88,7 +92,7 @@ function title_search(){
   }
   
 }
-function search_toggle(){
+function search_toggle(){//Toggles if the unit being sorted on is the article title or tag
   if (document.getElementById("tag_sort")){
     document.getElementById("tag_sort").placeholder = "Search Titles";
     document.getElementById("tag_sort").onkeyup = function() {title_search()};
@@ -107,10 +111,10 @@ function search_toggle(){
     focus_element("tag_sort");    
   }
 }
-function set_cookie(prop_name, prop_value){
+function set_cookie(prop_name, prop_value){//sets a passed cookie property and value.
   document.cookie = prop_name + "=" + prop_value + ";path=/;SameSite=Strict;";
 }
-function read_cookie(cname){
+function read_cookie(cname){//reads a property value 
   let prop_name = cname + '=';
   let decoded_cookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);
   let split_cookie = decoded_cookie.split(';');
@@ -125,11 +129,11 @@ function read_cookie(cname){
   }
   return "";
 }
-function printDiv(divName) {
+function printDiv(divName) {//Formats the page for printing.
   var printContents = document.getElementById(divName).innerHTML;
   w=window.open();
   w.document.write(printContents);
   w.print();
   w.close();
 }
-window.onload = format_page;
+window.onload = format_page;//loades the page formatting script.
diff --git a/common/page_menu.php b/common/page_menu.php
index ce207b5..bd5f5c1 100644
--- a/common/page_menu.php
+++ b/common/page_menu.php
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 <?php
 include_once ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/get_month_name.php');
 
+//Removes the number used to keep articles in post order from the displayed title.
 function remove_sorting_number($link_title){
   $first_three = mb_substr($link_title, 0, 3,"UTF-8");
   
@@ -31,14 +32,14 @@ if (file_exists($dir) && is_dir($dir) ) {
         $file_array[] = $file;
       }
     }
-    foreach($file_array as $file) {
-      $_replace = array('.php', '.html', '.htm');
-      $link_title = str_replace('_',' ',$file);
+    foreach($file_array as $file) {//Renders the folder names as more readable titles.
+      $_replace = array('.php', '.html', '.htm');//Remove file extensions from webpages.
+      $link_title = str_replace('_',' ',$file);//Remove undersores and replace them with spaces
       $link_title = str_replace($_replace,'',$link_title);
-      $link_title = ucwords($link_title);
-      $link_title = get_month_name($link_title);
-      $link_title = remove_sorting_number($link_title);
-      echo("<ul><li><a href='$file'> $link_title </a></li></ul>\n");
+      $link_title = ucwords($link_title);//Set the first letter of each word to upercase.
+      $link_title = get_month_name($link_title);//
+      $link_title = remove_sorting_number($link_title);//Removes the number used to keep articles in post order from the displayed title.
+      echo("<ul><li><a href='$file'> $link_title </a></li></ul>\n");//Output the result.
     }
 }
 else {
