First, make sure you are hosted OR own a site. Freewebs or any other free hosting site will not work. You must own a domain to be able t owork cutenews.
Now, you must download cutenews. Click here and download cutenews.
You need a certain FTP program. I use smart FTP - you can get it at download.com.
Now, open your FTP and open your cutenews folder you just downloaded. Drag the folder out to your desktop
Now, go to your FTP system, and upload the folder to wherever you want. (keep in mind, I renamed my folder cutenews1)
Everything should now be uploading...after its finished, type in the URL to your folder and then go to the installer. Click proceed installation - you should see this come up:
This means you must chmod all your files so you can use them. Go back to your ftp where your cutenews folder is.
Click the cutenews folder and these icons should be there:
now right click the DATA folder and then go down to PROPERTIES/CHMOD.
Change the permissions to 777.
Now after that, double click the DATA folder, highlight everything and chmod those files.
After that, refresh the Cutenews installer and everything should be writable.
Fill out the information, log in and you're all done!