diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e9f9a2b..2d590d6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,14 +2,50 @@
 
 RaspberryPi Club Website in Django
 
-## Stuff we used to make our site
+## Building and developing
+
+### Quickstart
+
+1) clone the repo and cd into the folder
+2) Build the image locally: `docker compose build`
+3) Bring up the dtabase container: `docker compose up database_default -d`
+4) Generate the tables and apply patches: `docker compose run --rm -it web python manage.py migrate`
+5) Create a superuser to use: `docker compose run --rm -it web python manage.py createsuperuser`
+6) Bring up the actual web engine: `docker compose up -d`
+
+## Stuff we used to make our site engine
 
 Here are some links to docs and sources of the tools, modules, etc that we used to make our website/application.  If/when we use/add more - we will add links to them here as well.
 
+Docker
+
+- https://docs.docker.com/manuals/
+
+Github
+
+- https://github.com/
+
+Django
+
+- Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/
+- Package index for common published options: https://djangopackages.org/
+
+Python (Django is build with Python)
+
+- https://docs.python.org/3/
+- https://pypi.org/
+
+PostgreSQL (our database of choice for production)
+
+- https://www.postgresql.org/
+
+DjangoCMS (a Django plugin/module providing content management features)
+
 -  https://user-guide.django-cms.org/en/latest/
+-  https://docs.django-cms.org/en/latest/introduction/01-install.html
+
+Django-material-kit (a nice theme to start with)
+
 -  https://github.com/app-generator/django-material-kit
   -  https://github.com/app-generator/django-theme-material-kit
--  https://docs.django-cms.org/en/latest/introduction/01-install.html
-  -  https://docs.django-cms.org/en/latest/index.html
--  https://django-organizations.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
--  https://django-userena-ce.github.io/django-userena-ce/installation.html
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+
diff --git a/backend/settings.py b/backend/settings.py
index 0ecc8ff..9912c9f 100644
--- a/backend/settings.py
+++ b/backend/settings.py
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@
 
     # Django Debug Toolbar
     'debug_toolbar',
+
+    # User accounts/profiles
+    'guardian',
+
 ]
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
@@ -247,6 +251,23 @@
     'localhost', # For Docker on Windows and macOS
     ]
 
+AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
+    'guardian.backends.ObjectPermissionBackend',
+    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
+)
+#EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.dummy.EmailBackend'
+#EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
+#EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
+#EMAIL_PORT = 587
+#EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'yourgmailaccount@gmail.com'
+#EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'yourgmailpassword'
+#DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
+#SERVER_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
+
+#AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'accounts.UserProfile'
+
+
+# Django Debug Toolbar fix for use inside a container
 DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG = {
     'SHOW_TOOLBAR_CALLBACK': lambda _request: DEBUG
 }
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diff --git a/backend/urls.py b/backend/urls.py
index 7e20624..c88ea29 100644
--- a/backend/urls.py
+++ b/backend/urls.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 urlpatterns = [
     path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
-    path("material/", include('theme_material_kit.urls')),
+    path('material/', include('theme_material_kit.urls')),
     ] + debug_toolbar_urls()
 
 if settings.DEBUG:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f34a494..26d61cf 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -176,4 +176,6 @@ str2bool==1.1
 django-theme-material-kit==1.0.25
 
 
+guardian==0.2.2
+
 django-debug-toolbar
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