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+	h2.blog-post-title First Blog Post
+	p.blog-post-meta July 21st 2015 by Mitchell
+	p.
+		My first blog post introduces this website and the motives behind it.
+		I discuss setting up a Node.js webserver for the first time and 
+		my experiences with it thus far.
+	hr
+	p.
+		I have had this site up for awhile now, but I've decided to turn it
+		into a blog style website, more or less. I first started working on the site
+		because I wanted to learn new web development tools, in this case, Node.js and MongoDB.
+	p.
+		I already had previous experience with SQL databases and other server side scripting
+		languages such as PHP and JSP, but I heard good things about Node.js and I wanted to
+		familiarize myself with a NoSQL database. At first, Node.js was a bit confusing to work
+		with and figure everything out. Now that I am starting to get the hang of Node and MongoDB
+		I am enjoying them more and more.
+
+	h2 Setting up Node.js for the first time
+	p.
+		There are multiple ways to get up and running with Node. Node uses "modules" and has some
+		that are already built in. Others need to be installed with the NPM package manager, which
+		will become your friend. I am going focus on installing Node.js with Express, which is a
+		web framework for Node.js.
+	code$ sudo apt-get install nodejs
+	br
+	code$ sudo apt-get install npm
+	br
+	p.
+		Once you have both Node.js and NPM installed, install Express and MongoDB.
+		We are going to install and use express generator to easily create a skeleton that we can
+		work from.
+	code$ npm install express-generator -g
+	br
+	p 
+	|Based on your system, installing MongoDB may be a bit different. 
+	a(href="http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/") Here is a guide on how to install.
+	p Once express generator is installed, it is extremely simple to set up a new Node application.
+	code$ express myapp
+	br
+	p This will generate a new fold "myapp" with prebuild folders and files.
+	code$ cd myapp
+	br
+	code$ npm install
+	br
+	code$ npm start
+	p.
+		Now as easy as that sounds, you have a Node web application running on your machine.
+		You can navigate to your web app at localhost:3000 (It's configured to use port 3000 by default)
+	p 
+		|Express organizes everything nicely in the 
+		a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller") Model View Controller 
+		|software pattern. Folders are split up into views, routes, and public files. 
+		|If you are implementing a database, you would also create a "models" folder. 
+		|There is also a folder which contains Node modules. 
+		|When you use NPM to install new modules this is where they will be located.
+	p.
+		Node is a very powerful tool that I plan on exploring more in the future.
+		As development of this site continues, I plan to submit more content similar to this.