Give documentation a bit of github "flavah"

Squashed commit of the following:

commit bc8d895df753d3924eff646950ff9c6c65df435a
Author: emccann <emccann@cs.uml.edu>
Date:   Fri Oct 10 13:50:34 2014 -0400

    Give documentation a bit of github "flavah"

commit c263c4a2d95c2abb36a516ecef05ca72d5008a6f
Author: emccann <emccann@cs.uml.edu>
Date:   Fri Oct 10 13:39:25 2014 -0400

    README: Add more troubleshooting info