How do I partition a new HD to include Recovery?

I have a MacBook Pro (Early 2008).
I upgraded the internal HD to a new 1TB drive. Works great.
The HD was totally blank.
I have a double-layer DVD built from the Mavericks install image. It works great (although it's slow).
I installed Mavericks, by booting from the DVD and following instructions.
The first time, it didn't find a drive to install on. I thought Mavericks was capable of detecting the blank HD and automatically installing on there, setting up all partitions as necessary? Strange that it didn't do this.
Anyway, I ran Disk Utility from the menu. It successfully found my 1TB drive. I partitioned it, creating 1 partition, of type "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
As we know by now, this was a mistake. I should have created 2 partitions: one for Recovery and another to hold the full installation. I got a successful Mavericks installation, which worked. However, no recovery partition, which means no Find My Mac, not acceptable.
So, time to try it again. I have these 4 questions:
1) What size to create for the recovery partition? I heard 1GB. Is this correct?
2) Should the recovery partition come BEFORE, or AFTER, the main partition? I've heard both ways, not sure which is correct. Does it matter?
3) What partition type? Is the recovery partition also "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)", or is it something else?
4) Do I need to do anything special in order to tell the Mavericks installer where to find my recovery partition, or will it find it automatically, since it's on the same HD as the main partition that I'm trying to install into?
Thanks!
Josh

Thanks!
I followed the instructions from that page, downloaded the program, pointed it at my 8GB USB key, and it worked. It was a little flaky, popping up some strange dialog boxes (such as a box that was empty except for the number "1" and OK/Cancel buttons at bottom, I guessed and hit OK).
The USB key became bootable. I booted into it OK. I wanted to erase the entire hard drive completely empty, but the best that Disk Utility allows is to go back to a single partition, so I did that, as you said. GPT type, of course.
The install went normally, taking 25 minutes or so, then it rebooted, but the USB key still was the bootable device! It immediately started over, doing *another* 25 minutes on the progress bar. I had to go to a meeting so just left the computer unattended for an hour or so. When I came back, it seems to have settled down, because it was now at the Mavericks welcome screen! That's good news. I gave it the test, by removing the USB key then rebooting, and it passed.
I did "diskutil list" and was happy to see the recovery partition had been successfully created! Now I can enable "Find My Mac" without errors.
Rough experience, overall, not very Mac-like. I wish Apple would make it easier to do this: they should have had "Create DVD" and "Create USB" buttons right on their installer program, so people could make installation media for doing fresh installs.

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