diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 54ccdc6a..5643c872 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 node_modules
 bower_components
-generated
\ No newline at end of file
+_site
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
index 8839a08e..c32380de 100644
--- a/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/Gruntfile.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ module.exports = function(grunt){
     // config
     var gruntConfig = {
         src: '_src',
-        site: 'generated',
+        site: '_site',
         assets: {
             less:   'assets/less',
             css:    'assets/css',
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 58b17bb7..df17b9e4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Get up and running
 
 For various reasons the assets build process and Jekyll site generation is managed through Grunt instead of `jekyll` or `rake`.
 
-Both, `grunt server` and `grunt build`, use [grunt-jekyll](https://github.com/dannygarcia/grunt-jekyll) to first generate the site into the `generated` folder and the following Grunt tasks output into that folder.
+Both, `grunt server` and `grunt build`, use [grunt-jekyll](https://github.com/dannygarcia/grunt-jekyll) to first generate the site into the `_site` folder and the following Grunt tasks output into that folder.
 
-The `media` folder holding the source post images is excluded from Jekyll site generation and rsynced around from `_src/_media` to `generated/media` before site generation starts. 
+The `media` folder holding the source post images is excluded from Jekyll site generation and rsynced around from `_src/_media` to `_site/media` before site generation starts. 
 
-Image size generation for post teaser images and photos is done with [jekyll-picture-tag](https://github.com/robwierzbowski/jekyll-picture-tag), putting resized images into `generated/media/gen`.
+Image size generation for post teaser images and photos is done with [jekyll-picture-tag](https://github.com/robwierzbowski/jekyll-picture-tag), putting resized images into `_site/media/gen`.
 
 ### Install dependencies
 
diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 0723c016..1f460f85 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ redcarpet:
 # --------------------
 
 source:                 ./_src
-destination:            ./generated
+destination:            ./_site
 exclude:                ['less', 'app.js']
 keep_files:             ['media', 'gen']