goodly designs for the average tasteful chapHow to install Fanupdate
First, go to Fanupdate.co.uk and click on the beautiful glossy button that reads "DOWNLOAD FanUpdate." The page will change a little, and you'll need to click the button again.
A file called Faunupdate.zip will download and become a folder titled Fanupdate. Double click on the folder, and a window will pop up showing all the files within.
Select the one called "blog-config.php" and open it in a plaintext text editor like MS Notebook or Textedit.
Scroll down until you see the Admin variables. Where you see the word admin is where your fanupdating username is going to go. Where it says pass is where your password to log into that account will go. Replace the two with your name and a nice hard-to-guess password.
To use fanupdate, you need to create a MySQL database, and a username (and password for the username) to assign to the database (do that now). If you don't know how, you can see my tutorial on creating databases here.
In the blog config page, you will see this.
We don't have to worry about the first line after the title. The second line calls for the name of the username assigned to your database. This will look something like mydomain_name. For example, mine is figmint_frisby, since figmint is my website's domain, and frisby is what I put for my username when I created it. Once you've figured out what yours is, delete "retrogho_fu" and replace it with the username. Don't delete the apostrophes.
The third line calls for the database password. When you created the database username for FanUpdate, you had to give it a password. Put the password instead of the word "pass".
The last and fourth line asks for the database name. Similar to the database username, it will begin with your site's domain, an underscore, and end with whatever you put as the database's name when you created it. For example, mine might be figmint_updates.
You're done with the blog config page now, so save and close it.
Next, upload the fanupdate folder to your site. Once all the files are there and everything, go to the file install.php. I mean, go to www.yoursite.com/FanUpdate/install.php.
Once you're there, you'll see something like this.
In the section where it says Blog Page, replace the address in the textarea with the URL of the page your updates are going to be displayed on.
Then, click Create Fresh Installation at the bottom. Go ahead and delete the install page now so nobody hacks your mainframe. :3
Now go to the log in page--Yoursite.com/FanUpdate/index.php, and type in your admin username and password (remember, the hard-to-guess one?). Click login, and if you got it right, you'll be in.
At the left, you'll see the following. Click the link that says How to Display your Blog.
You'll then see this:
Copy everything in that big box and paste it on the page you want your posts to display on. But while we're here, let me explain the box at the right.
All those are selectors and stuff that you can use to customize FanUpdate's default template with a bit of CSS. You can also change settings regarding FanUpdate on the Options page, at the top.
Moving on...
If you've pasted in that bunch of php on your updates page, its time to blog! Go back to the control panel page and click the enticing button that reads Post a New Entry and tell everybody about how easy installing FanUpdate was! ;D
