diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md b/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md
index 3203c5fcbb9..3ec5420d930 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md
@@ -878,15 +878,19 @@ This will let Create React App correctly infer the root path to use in the gener
 
 >Note: this feature is available with `react-scripts@0.2.0` and higher.
 
+**THE BELOW STEP IS IMPORTANT!**<br>
+**If your skip it, your app will not deploy correctly.**
+
 Open your `package.json` and add a `homepage` field:
 
 ```js
   "homepage": "https://myusername.github.io/my-app",
 ```
 
-**The above step is important!**<br>
 Create React App uses the `homepage` field to determine the root URL in the built HTML file.
 
+**Have you added the `homepage` field? Then let's move on.**
+
 Now, whenever you run `npm run build`, you will see a cheat sheet with instructions on how to deploy to GitHub Pages.
 
 To publish it at [https://myusername.github.io/my-app](https://myusername.github.io/my-app), run:
@@ -913,6 +917,8 @@ Then run:
 npm run deploy
 ```
 
+**If you see 404 errors for JS and CSS, re-read the note at the beginning of this section saying "THE BELOW STEP IS IMPORTANT".**
+
 You can configure a custom domain with GitHub Pages by adding a `CNAME` file to the `public/` folder.
 
 Note that GitHub Pages doesn't support routers that use the HTML5 `pushState` history API under the hood (for example, React Router using `browserHistory`). This is because when there is a fresh page load for a url like `http://user.github.io/todomvc/todos/42`, where `/todos/42` is a frontend route, the GitHub Pages server returns 404 because it knows nothing of `/todos/42`. If you want to add a router to a project hosted on GitHub Pages, here are a couple of solutions: