diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # UFS Short-Range Weather Application
 
-The Unified Forecast System (UFS) is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system. NOAA's operational model suite for numerical weather prediction (NWP) is quickly transitioning to the UFS from a number of legacy modeling systems. The UFS enables research, development, and contribution opportunities within the broader Weather Enterprise (including government, industry, and academia). For more information about the UFS, visit the UFS Portal at https://ufscommunity.org/.
+The Unified Forecast System (UFS) is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system. NOAA's operational model suite for numerical weather prediction (NWP) is quickly transitioning to the UFS from a number of legacy modeling systems. The UFS enables research, development, and contribution opportunities within the broader Weather Enterprise (including government, industry, and academia). For more information about the UFS, visit the UFS Portal at https://ufs.epic.noaa.gov/.
 
-The UFS includes multiple applications (see a complete list at https://ufscommunity.org/science/aboutapps/) that support different forecast durations and spatial domains. This documentation describes the development branch of the UFS Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application, which targets predictions of atmospheric behavior on a limited spatial domain and on time scales from minutes to several days. The development branch of the application is continually evolving as the system undergoes open development. The latest SRW App release (v2.2.0) represents a snapshot of this continuously evolving system. 
+The UFS includes multiple applications (see a complete list at https://ufs.epic.noaa.gov/applications/) that support different forecast durations and spatial domains. This documentation describes the development branch of the UFS Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application, which targets predictions of atmospheric behavior on a limited spatial domain and on time scales from minutes to several days. The development branch of the application is continually evolving as the system undergoes open development. The latest SRW App release (v2.2.0) represents a snapshot of this continuously evolving system. 
 
 The UFS SRW App User's Guide associated with the development branch is at: https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/develop/, while the guide specific to the SRW App v2.2.0 release can be found at: https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.2.0/. The repository is at: https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app.
 
 For instructions on how to clone the repository, build the code, and run the workflow, see:
-- https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/develop/BuildingRunningTesting/Quickstart.html
+- https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/develop/UsersGuide/BuildingRunningTesting/Quickstart.html
 
 For a debugging guide for users and developers in the field of Earth System Modeling, please see:
 https://epic.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Debugging-Guide.pdf
diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README
index 0ad8948ed..017f86538 100644
--- a/doc/README
+++ b/doc/README
@@ -20,10 +20,11 @@ Steps to build and use the Sphinx documentation tool:
 
 To build html:
 
-$ cd ufs-srweather-app/docs/UsersGuide
-$ make clean && sphinx-build -b html source build
+$ cd ufs-srweather-app/doc
+$ make clean && sphinx-build -b html . build
 
 The "make html" command can often be used in place of the previous command.
+"make doc" will both build the html and run the linkchecker. 
 
 Sphinx uses Latex to export the documentation as a PDF file.  To build pdf:
 
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
index 90efd3211..e6d38a4eb 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 # This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
-#    pip-compile requirements.in
+#    pip-compile --strip-extras requirements.in
 #
 alabaster==0.7.16
     # via sphinx
 babel==2.14.0
     # via sphinx
-certifi==2024.2.2
+certifi==2024.7.4
     # via requests
 charset-normalizer==3.3.2
     # via requests
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ pygments==2.17.2
     # via sphinx
 pyyaml==6.0.1
     # via pybtex
-requests==2.32.0
+requests==2.32.2
     # via sphinx
 six==1.16.0
     # via