Blogger or wordpress install and working

Hello, I would like a blog on my site, i have tried to install wordpress before but could not get to write anything so gave up on the one, i also installed blogger but again could not get it to work properly. I would like someone to install one of the above into my site and make sure it all works so i can permalink and so on, the blogger would never connect to my ftp so this could be the best one but again i would be happy with wordpress and my host has Fantastico auto install so only takes 10 seconds but again i could never write any words for some reason in the main body but i could write a header and so on. Thanks