diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2f9aa36..d0ec75d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ To install the Python library requirements, run:
 
     pip install -r requirements.txt
 
+or, if you want to use Postgres as the dabase backend:
+
+    pip install -r requirements-postgres.txt
+
+To initialise the database (SQLite is used by default), run:
+    
+    python manage.py syncdb
+
+
 ## Running
 
 Though the client and server can be run independently (and they are in fact run as such our ovii server), you can run them both on your local machine simply with:
diff --git a/complexityplot/complexityplot/settings.py b/complexityplot/complexityplot/settings.py
index 62a7e33..1804479 100644
--- a/complexityplot/complexityplot/settings.py
+++ b/complexityplot/complexityplot/settings.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 DEBUG = True
 TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
 
+BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) 
+
 ADMINS = (
     ('Simon Walton', 'simon.walton@oerc.ox.ac.uk'),
 )
@@ -63,9 +65,9 @@
 # Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
 # in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
 # Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/"
-STATIC_ROOT = "/Users/sim/Documents/ComplexityPlot/Web/complexityplot/"
+STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR
 
-BASE_DIR = "/Users/sim/Documents/ComplexityPlot/Web/complexityplot/"
+BASE_DIR = BASE_DIR
 
 # URL prefix for static files.
 # Example: "http://example.com/static/", "http://static.example.com/"
@@ -123,7 +125,7 @@
     # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
     # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
     # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
-    "/Users/sim/Documents/ComplexityPlot/Web/complexityplot/templates/"
+    os.path.normpath(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'))
 )
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = (
diff --git a/requirements-postgres.txt b/requirements-postgres.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f02749b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-postgres.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+-r requirements.txt
+psycopg2==2.4.6
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c417e4b..dff2ae5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 Django==1.5.1
 South==0.7.6
-distribute==0.6.35
 dj-database-url==0.2.1
 gunicorn==0.17.2
 heroku==0.1.2
 ipython==0.13.1
 numpy==1.7.0
-psycopg2==2.4.6
 python-dateutil==1.5
 requests==1.2.0
 virtualenv==1.9.1