diff --git a/docs/getting_started.rst b/docs/getting_started.rst
index f10afa68..deca0c17 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started.rst
+++ b/docs/getting_started.rst
@@ -180,3 +180,17 @@ If you want to publish an article as a draft, for friends to review it for
 instance, you can add a ``status: draft`` to its metadata, it will then be
 available under the ``drafts`` folder, and not be listed under the index page nor
 any category page.
+
+Viewing the generated files
+---------------------------
+
+The files generated by pelican are static files, so you don't actually need
+something special to see what's hapenning with the generated files.
+
+You can either run your browser on the files on your disk::
+
+    $ firefox output/index.html
+
+Or run a simple web server using python::
+
+    cd output && python -m SimpleHTTPServer