diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d8cd783..7ffc407 100755
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ config.json
 data.json
 hitcount.txt
 *.swp
-data/
+data
+webroot
 images/*
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6967b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+DATA_DIR=data
+WEBROOT_DIR=webroot
+
+all: config css users posts comments data
+clean:
+	rm -rf data
+	rm -rf webroot
+	rm -f config.json
+
+# config file
+config: config.json
+config.json:
+	cp example-config.json config.json
+	echo '!!!PLEASE MODIFY config.json ACCORDING TO YOUR NEEDS!!!'
+
+# custom.css
+css: $(WEBROOT_DIR)/custom.css
+$(WEBROOT_DIR)/custom.css:
+	mkdir -p webroot
+	echo '* {\n	font-family: sans-serif;\n}' > $(WEBROOT_DIR)/custom.css
+
+# users.json
+users: $(DATA_DIR)/users.json
+$(DATA_DIR)/users.json:
+	mkdir -p data
+	echo '[]' > $(DATA_DIR)/users.json
+# posts.json
+posts: $(DATA_DIR)/posts.json
+$(DATA_DIR)/posts.json:
+	mkdir -p data
+	echo '[]' > $(DATA_DIR)/posts.json
+# comments.json
+comments: $(DATA_DIR)/comments.json
+$(DATA_DIR)/comments.json:
+	mkdir -p data
+	echo '[]' > $(DATA_DIR)/comments.json
+# data.json
+data: $(DATA_DIR)/data.json
+$(DATA_DIR)/data.json:
+	mkdir -p data
+	echo '{"hitcount": 0}' > $(DATA_DIR)/data.json
diff --git a/docs/INSTALLATION.md b/docs/INSTALLATION.md
index 42c80d0..2d0bef1 100644
--- a/docs/INSTALLATION.md
+++ b/docs/INSTALLATION.md
@@ -2,10 +2,8 @@
 This program is currently just ran manually.<br/>
 All you need to do is clone the git repository:<br/>
 ```git clone https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs.git```<br/>
-Then navigate to /src:<br/>
-```cd src```<br/>
-Then run the initialisation function:<br/>
-```node server.js --first-time```<br/>
+Then run the Makefile:<br/>
+```make```
 Then you should modify config.json in / to suit your needs.<br/>
 # Running
 I would reccomend running the program in tmux so it does not stop running when you close the terminal window.<br/>
diff --git a/src/initialise.js b/src/initialise.js
deleted file mode 100644
index dfeeacd..0000000
--- a/src/initialise.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-import { createRequire } from 'module';
-const require = createRequire(import.meta.url)
-// Initialise the program by creating users.js, comments.js, posts.js and config.js
-// All require default content in them to start off with
-// Then exit successfully
-// returns nothing
-export function initialise() {
-    const fs = require("fs");
-    try {
-        const users = require("../data/users.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating users file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/users.json`, `[]`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const posts = require("../data/posts.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating posts file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/posts.json`, `[]`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const comments = require("../data/comments.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating comments file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `[]`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const comments = require("../data/data.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating generic data file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/data.json`, `{"hitcount": 0}`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const config = require("../config.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Copying the example config to config.js")
-        console.log("!!! PLEASE MODIFY config.json TO YOUR NEEDS !!!")
-        fs.copyFile('../example-config.json', '../config.json', (err) => {
-            console.log("Error copying file")
-        })
-    }
-
-    console.log("Successfully initialised")
-    process.exit(0)
-}
diff --git a/src/server.js b/src/server.js
index d4e20ee..6b1851b 100644
--- a/src/server.js
+++ b/src/server.js
@@ -10,15 +10,8 @@ const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date util
 const ejs = require("ejs")
 const func = require("./functions.js")
 const data = require("./data.js")
-const init = require("./initialise.js")
 
 
-// There's only one possible argument, so we can just check if the user passed that one
-// TODO I plan on adding more such as --help and --post so I should make this more robust at some point
-if (process.argv[2] == "--first-time") {
-    init.initialise() // Creates any files such users.js, posts.js, comments.js or config.js if they are not present
-}
-
 // Define the modules now so they are global
 let users // contains a list of users, each user is an object containing username,prettyname,hash and description
 let posts // contains a list of posts,
@@ -37,7 +30,7 @@ if (config["data_storage"] == "json") {
 	    // if they don't all import then 
 	    // inform the user to pass --first-time and exit with an error code
 	    console.log("A file is missing!")
-	    console.log("Run with --first-time to initialise the program")
+	    console.log("Run 'make' to initialise the data files")
 	    console.log(error)
 	    process.exit(1)
 	}
diff --git a/webroot/custom.css b/webroot/custom.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 587e3ab..0000000
--- a/webroot/custom.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-/* Put any CSS you want in here, it will be applied to the whole website */
-* {
-	font-family: sans-serif;
-}
diff --git a/webroot/robots.txt b/webroot/robots.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ba66bf..0000000
--- a/webroot/robots.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-User-agent: AddSearchBot
-User-agent: AI2Bot
-User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
-User-agent: aiHitBot
-User-agent: Amazonbot
-User-agent: Andibot
-User-agent: anthropic-ai
-User-agent: Applebot
-User-agent: Applebot-Extended
-User-agent: Awario
-User-agent: bedrockbot
-User-agent: bigsur.ai
-User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
-User-agent: Bytespider
-User-agent: CCBot
-User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
-User-agent: ChatGPT-User
-User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
-User-agent: Claude-User
-User-agent: Claude-Web
-User-agent: ClaudeBot
-User-agent: CloudVertexBot
-User-agent: cohere-ai
-User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
-User-agent: Cotoyogi
-User-agent: Crawlspace
-User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
-User-agent: DeepSeekBot
-User-agent: Devin
-User-agent: Diffbot
-User-agent: DuckAssistBot
-User-agent: Echobot Bot
-User-agent: EchoboxBot
-User-agent: FacebookBot
-User-agent: facebookexternalhit
-User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
-User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
-User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
-User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
-User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
-User-agent: Google-Extended
-User-agent: Google-Firebase
-User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
-User-agent: GoogleOther
-User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
-User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
-User-agent: GPTBot
-User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
-User-agent: ICC-Crawler
-User-agent: ImagesiftBot
-User-agent: img2dataset
-User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
-User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
-User-agent: LinerBot
-User-agent: meta-externalagent
-User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
-User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
-User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
-User-agent: meta-webindexer
-User-agent: MistralAI-User
-User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
-User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
-User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
-User-agent: NovaAct
-User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
-User-agent: omgili
-User-agent: omgilibot
-User-agent: OpenAI
-User-agent: Operator
-User-agent: PanguBot
-User-agent: Panscient
-User-agent: panscient.com
-User-agent: Perplexity-User
-User-agent: PerplexityBot
-User-agent: PetalBot
-User-agent: PhindBot
-User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
-User-agent: QualifiedBot
-User-agent: QuillBot
-User-agent: quillbot.com
-User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
-User-agent: Scrapy
-User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
-User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
-User-agent: ShapBot
-User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
-User-agent: TerraCotta
-User-agent: Thinkbot
-User-agent: TikTokSpider
-User-agent: Timpibot
-User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
-User-agent: WARDBot
-User-agent: Webzio-Extended
-User-agent: wpbot
-User-agent: YaK
-User-agent: YandexAdditional
-User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
-User-agent: YouBot
-Disallow: /