[funkypilchard]

Hello I thought it best to post here due to my severe lack of programming skills.

Hopefully this will be really useful to other beginners too.

I wish to install Wordpress blog. I have some basic questions if anyone has the time to help.

1. should my blog look like this once it is installed www. mywebsite.com/blog

2. where it says "fill in your database connection details." in the blog readme, I have the following code:

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'username'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix = 'wp_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
// to enable German language support.
define ('WPLANG', '');

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
?>

What would my database connection details be and where would I place them in the above code? do I need to create a mysql database from my control panel first?

3. It then tells me to "upload everything" should I create a new directory on my webspace like /new (blog) folder/ and just drag all of the contents out of the unzipped wordpress folder into the folder on my webspace called /blog/ via ftp.

Thanks in advance. (sorry for being so basic)