Installing WordPress was easy for me, since I had helped a classmate through the process already. Getting it to look the way I want might be a different story, since I know I want it to look very different from this:

Generic WordPress Blog

So, I downloaded and installed to themes to play with, Aeros and Aurora. Aeros was playing all sorts of funny text alignment tricks on me as soon as I tried to edit my first post:

Aeros

So, I switched to Aurora, which looked like a much better theme to start from:

Aurora

I edited the css so the site looked like this:

Aurora with Blue Background

Ultimately, though, I liked the original design, so I switched it back.