Getting started
Today is the release day for Backdrop v1.0.0, 15th January 2015 in California, but by the launch it was 16th January here in the UK. I am impressed by the way the team have dealt with so many issues.
Once available, I downloaded the zip file to my PC, unzipped it and uploaded everything by FTP (using FileZilla) as a new folder 'Backdrop' in some webspace. I created a new MySQL database in my VPS just for use by Backdrop.