diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# Kimee's Blog
+
+This repository houses the code for Kimee's blog and website.
+It's written using Java EE, primarily JSP, with a number of DAOs.
+
+To build follow the [building instructions](docs/building.md).
+
+To install follow the [installation instructions](docs/installation.md).
+
+## License
+
+It is licensed under the Apache 2.0 [license](license.txt).
diff --git a/docs/building.md b/docs/building.md
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+# Building Instructions
+
+Building this requires [maven](https://maven.apache.org/), [tomcat](https://tomcat.apache.org/), and [MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/).
+Consult your Operating System Distribution's manual for installation instructions.
+It also uses [git](https://git-scm.com/) for source control.
+
+## Database Configuration
+
+For developer testing, the project's ``context.xml`` is setup to expect a schema called ``blog`` with the following configuration:
+
+ - Connection URL: localhost:3306/blog
+ - Username: blogger
+ - Password: bloggingit
+
+These credentials should be given minimal permissions to the rest of the database.
+While possible to do so, it is recommended not to use these credentials in a production system.
+Simply create a production user and edit ``context.xml`` after deploying to use different credentials.
+See [installation](installation.md).
+
+These SQL commands will create the ``blog`` schema with the credentials as listed. this makes code-test-debug cycles easy, at minimal risk to the rest of the database.
+
+```
+CREATE SCHEMA blog;
+USE SCHEMA blog;
+SOURCE src/main/sql/setup.sql;
+GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON blog.* TO 'blogger'@'host' IDENTIFIED BY 'bloggingit';
+```
+
+The project uses an additional schema called 'blogtest' for running unit tests.
+The unit tests also have a testing user hard coded in, to facilitate testing queries.
+The following credentials are used:
+
+ - Connection URL: localhost:3306/blogtest
+ - Username: blogtester
+ - Password: bloggingit
+
+To install the schema in your database and create the ``blogtester`` user, run the following queries.
+The project will automatically recreate the tables before each test run.
+
+```
+CREATE SCHEMA blogtest;
+USE blogtest;
+GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON blog.* TO 'blogtester'@'host' IDENTIFIED BY 'testingit';
+```
+
+Lastly the project requires a user account with full permissions to destroy and recreate the ``blogtest`` schema.
+Run this query to create one, changing the username and password.
+
+```
+GRANT ALL PERMISSIONS ON blogtest.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
+```
+
+This allows maven build to destroy and recreate the ``blogtest`` schema.
+
+Since this user has all permissions it is necessary to use unique credentials and protect them.
+In Maven this can be done by hiding per-machine credentials in the ``.m2/settings.xml`` file.
+Edit the file ``~/.m2/settings.xml`` to have the following.
+Ensure the id is set to ``localhost-mariadb-tester`` so that the POM accesses the correct server.
+
+```
+    <servers>
+        <server>
+            <id>localhost-mariadb-tester</id>
+            <username>username</username>
+            <password>password</password>
+        </server>
+    </servers>
+```
+
+## Tomcat Configuration
+
+There are two tomcat configuration items: the MariaDB JDBC driver jar, and the manager interface login.
+
+To configure the MariaDB driver change directory to ``${tomcat}/lib/`` (where ${tomcat} is the installation location of tomcat) and run the following maven command.
+
+```
+cd ${tomcat}/lib/
+mvn dependency:copy -Dartifact=org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client:2.4.2:jar -DoutputDirectory=./
+```
+
+To grant the project permission to deploy the blog.war application, you will need to edit ``${tomcat}/conf/tomcat-users.xml``.
+Make sure you have the following lines. Changing passwords to protect your development environment.
+
+```
+    <!-- manager-gui is optional, but convenient if you want to deploy by hand -->
+    <role rolename="manager-gui" />
+    <role rolename="manager-script" />
+    <user username="username" password="password" roles="manager-gui, manager-script" />
+
+```
+
+Again you should protect your server by hiding these credentials on the per-machine ``~/.m2/settings.xml`` file.
+Make sure that this time the ``id`` is given as ``localhost-tomcat``.
+
+```
+    <servers>
+        <server>
+            <id>localhost-tomcat</id>
+            <username>username</username>
+            <password>password</password>
+        </server>
+    </servers>
+```
+
+Now you should be ready to start developing.
+To build the project, as usual run
+
+```
+mvn package
+```
+
+And to deploy, redeploy, or undeploy the project WAR file to the development tomcat instance, run the following commands.
+
+```
+mvn tomcat7:deploy
+mvn tomcat7:redeploy
+mvn tomcat7:undeploy
+```
diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md
index 0e30f49..5f06903 100644
--- a/docs/installation.md
+++ b/docs/installation.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  - UPDATE
  - DELETE
 
-To create such an account run the following statement, changing username, host to your web server's hostname or IP address and password to a unique password.
+To create such an account run the following statement, changing username, host to the hostname or IP address of your database server and password to a unique password.
 
 ```
 GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON blog TO 'username'@'host' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e09e755..167d590 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
         <configuration>
           <driver>org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver</driver>
           <skip>${skipTests}</skip>
+          <settingsKey>localhost-mariadb-tester</settingsKey>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
@@ -169,8 +170,6 @@
             <phase>process-test-sources</phase>
             <configuration>
               <url>jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306</url>
-              <username>tester</username>
-              <password>testingit</password>
               <autocommit>true</autocommit>
               <sqlCommand>DROP SCHEMA IF EXISTS blogtest;</sqlCommand>
               <onError>continue</onError>
@@ -182,8 +181,6 @@
             <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
             <configuration>
               <url>jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306</url>
-              <username>tester</username>
-              <password>testingit</password>
               <autocommit>true</autocommit>
               <sqlCommand>CREATE SCHEMA blogtest;</sqlCommand>
             </configuration>
@@ -194,8 +191,6 @@
             <phase>process-test-resources</phase>
             <configuration>
               <url>jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/blogtest</url>
-              <username>tester</username>
-              <password>testingit</password>
               <autocommit>true</autocommit>
               <srcFiles>
                 <srcFile>src/main/sql/setup.sql</srcFile>
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/style.css b/src/main/webapp/style.css
index 761bec7..442cb91 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/style.css
+++ b/src/main/webapp/style.css
@@ -410,6 +410,7 @@
 div#contentcontainer img.floatleft
 {
     width: 40%;
+    max-width: 16em;
     float: left;
     margin: 0.5em;
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/kim/redbow/web/blog/TestUtil.java b/src/test/java/kim/redbow/web/blog/TestUtil.java
index 39260c0..c8860a2 100644
--- a/src/test/java/kim/redbow/web/blog/TestUtil.java
+++ b/src/test/java/kim/redbow/web/blog/TestUtil.java
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
             Class.forName("org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver");
             return DriverManager
                 .getConnection("jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/blogtest",
-                "tester", "testingit");
+                "blogtester", "testingit");
         }
         catch(SQLException | ClassNotFoundException e) { return null; }
     }