diff --git a/gulpfile.babel.js b/gulpfile.babel.js
index 62b00337..03dc4ec7 100644
--- a/gulpfile.babel.js
+++ b/gulpfile.babel.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import React from 'react';
 import webpack from 'webpack';
 import { Server as KarmaServer } from 'karma';
 import clean from 'del';
+import runSequence from 'run-sequence';
 
 const plugins = gulpLoadPlugins();
 const PRODUCTION = (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production');
@@ -109,11 +110,11 @@ gulp.task('test-coverage', ['lint'], function (done) {
   }, done).start();
 });
 
-gulp.task('clean-dist-js', function() {
+gulp.task('clean-dist', function() {
   return clean('dist');
 });
 
-gulp.task('build-dist-js', ['clean-dist-js'], function() {
+gulp.task('build-dist-js', function() {
   // build javascript files
   return gulp.src(['src/**/*.{js,jsx}', '!src/**/tests/**', '!src/tests.webpack.js'])
     .pipe(plugins.babel({
@@ -131,6 +132,10 @@ gulp.task('build-dist-scss', function() {
     .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/css'));
 });
 
+gulp.task('build-dist', function(callback) {
+  runSequence('clean-dist', ['build-dist-js', 'build-dist-scss'], callback);
+});
+
 gulp.task('build-example-js', function() {
   var compiler = plugins.webpack(webpackConfig, webpack);
 
@@ -180,10 +185,10 @@ gulp.task('example-server', function() {
   });
 });
 
-gulp.task('build', ['build-dist-js', 'build-example', 'build-example-js', 'build-example-scss']);
+gulp.task('build', ['build-dist', 'build-example', 'build-example-js', 'build-example-scss']);
 gulp.task('develop', ['test-unit', 'build-example', 'watch-example-js', 'watch-example-scss', 'example-server']);
 
 gulp.task('deploy-example', ['build'], function() {
-  return gulp.src(paths.src)
-    .pipe(plugins.deploy());
+  return gulp.src('./example/**/*')
+    .pipe(plugins.ghPages());
 });
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f6d370f6..67472890 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     "test": "gulp test-coverage",
     "lint": "gulp lint",
     "deploy-example": "gulp deploy-example",
-    "prepublish": "gulp build-dist-scss"
+    "prepublish": "gulp build-dist"
   },
   "style": "./dist/css/react-calendar.css",
   "files": [
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
     "karma-webpack": "^1.7.0",
     "object.assign": "^1.1.1",
     "phantomjs": "^1.9.18",
+    "run-sequence": "~1.1.4",
     "timekeeper": "0.0.5",
     "transform-loader": "^0.2.1",
     "underscore": "^1.8.3",