diff --git a/site-generator b/site-generator
index 2546c7c..6cdc0a3 100755
--- a/site-generator
+++ b/site-generator
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 	site-generator [OPTION]... PAGE|PAGE=<comma separated list of ids>...
 
 	-p, --preview  print generated pages to standard out
-	-v, --verbose  use verbose mode
+	-q, --quiet    suppress progress information while generating pages
+	-v, --verbose  print extended progress information while generating pages
 	--help         print this help message
 
 	Where I<PAGE> is a file name of a web page 
@@ -92,13 +93,19 @@ sub main {
 	# Argument parsing
 	my $preview;
 	my $verbose;
+	my $quiet;
 	GetOptions(
 		'preview' => \$preview,
-		'verbose'  => \$verbose,
+		'verbose' => \$verbose,
+		'quiet'   => \$quiet,
 	) or pod2usage(1);
 	pod2usage(1) unless @ARGV;
 	my (@page_args) = @ARGV;
 
+	if ($quiet) {
+		$verbose = 'quiet';
+	};
+
 	# Set flag indicating whether or not to generate all pages.
 	# The flag is set to true if the special argument ALL is 
 	# passed into the generator
@@ -186,7 +193,9 @@ sub generate_page  {
 sub verbose {
 	my ($verbose, $message) = @_;
 	if ($verbose) {
-		print STDOUT "$message\n";
+		if ($verbose ne 'quiet') { 
+			print STDOUT "$message\n";
+		}
 	}
 	else {
 		STDOUT->autoflush(1);