diff --git a/gsitegen/generate.py b/gsitegen/generate.py
index f4367dd..a711dfe 100644
--- a/gsitegen/generate.py
+++ b/gsitegen/generate.py
@@ -66,11 +66,12 @@ def generateLines(title, lines):
 def generatePage(title, doc):
   global pages
   global titles
-  global pagescount
+
   if 'pages' not in globals():
     pages = []
   if 'titles' not in globals():
     titles = []
+
   if 'navbar' in globals():
     pages.append(str(E.ul(navbar)) + str(doc))
     titles.append(title)
@@ -86,7 +87,6 @@ def writePages(homepage):
     os.mkdir("./website-output")
   except FileExistsError:
     pass
-    print("Output directory already exists, let's clean it!")
     #TODO only delete files that aren't present in newest site generation
     #deleting contents of folder without deleting the folder, to increase compatibility with various systems
     #for root, dirs, files in os.walk('./website-output'):
@@ -107,15 +107,13 @@ def writePages(homepage):
       except FileExistsError:
         pass
 
-    changed = False
+    changed = True
     filepath = Path("./website-output" + foldername + "/index.html")
 
     if filepath.exists():
       with open("./website-output" + foldername + "/index.html", 'r') as newpage:
-        if newpage.read() != page:
-          changed = True
-    else:
-      changed = True
+        if newpage.read() == page:
+          changed = False
 
     if changed:
       with open("./website-output" + foldername + "/index.html", 'w') as newpage: