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+[Jarallax](http://Jarallax.com/) - Interactive css at your fingertips
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+Contribution Guides
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+
+In the spirit of open source software development, Jarallax always encourages community code contribution.
+
+What you need to build your own Jarallax
+--------------------------------------
+
+In order to build Jarallax, you need to have Node.js/npm latest, GNU make 0.3 or later, and git 1.7 or later.
+(Earlier versions might work OK, but are not tested.)
+
+Windows users have two options:
+
+1. Install [msysgit](https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) (Full installer for official Git),
+   [GNU make for Windows](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm), and a
+   [binary version of Node.js](http://node-js.prcn.co.cc/). Make sure all three packages are installed to the same
+   location (by default, this is C:\Program Files\Git).
+2. Install [Cygwin](http://cygwin.com/) (make sure you install the git, make, and which packages), then either follow
+   the [Node.js build instructions](https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/Building-node.js-on-Cygwin-%28Windows%29) or install
+   the [binary version of Node.js](http://node-js.prcn.co.cc/).
+
+Mac OS users should install Xcode (comes on your Mac OS install DVD, or downloadable from
+[Apple's Xcode site](http://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html)) and
+[http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/](Homebrew). Once Homebrew is installed, run `brew install git` to install git,
+and `brew install node` to install Node.js.
+
+Linux/BSD users should use their appropriate package managers to install make, git, and node, or build from source
+if you swing that way. Easy-peasy.
+
+
+How to build your own Jarallax
+----------------------------
+
+First, clone a copy of the main Jarallax git repo by running:
+
+```bash
+git clone git://github.com/CodeHunger/Jarallax.git
+```
+
+Make sure you have `grunt` installed by testing:
+
+```bash
+grunt -version
+```
+
+Then, to get a complete, minified (w/ Uglify.js), linted (w/ JSHint) version of Jarallax, type the following:
+
+```bash
+grunt
+```
+
+
+The built version of Jarallax will be put in the `bin/` subdirectory.
+
+
+Git for dummies
+---------------
+
+As the source code is handled by the version control system Git, it's useful to know some features used.
+
+### Submodules ###
+
+The repository uses submodules, which normally are handled directly by the Makefile, but sometimes you want to
+be able to work with them manually.
+
+Following are the steps to manually get the submodules:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/CodeHunger/Jarallax.git
+git submodule init
+git submodule update
+```
+
+Or:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/CodeHunger/Jarallax.git
+git submodule update --init
+```
+
+Or:
+
+```bash
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/CodeHunger/Jarallax.git
+```