Questions Regarding Word Press

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Hello All. I am new to the web site arena. I am hoping to use trap.17 to create one of a few types of sites. I am uncertain as to which I will attempt to launch first. I would like to create a site that consists of several forums that will be geared towards medical transcription. I would also like to create a celeb news site. And, eventually, I would also like to set up a site for my 10 year old son for him to post whatever he wants. He is interested in news writing already.My question is...is Word Press, in conjunction with Xisto going to be enough for me to do what I hope to do in creating these sites. Will I have to learn some sort of language like PHP or HTML or does Word Press handle all of this.If I do the celebrity news site, it will be very important that I am able to upload images that will appear clear to the viewers. I intend to use AdSense on each of these sites. If anybody is aware of additional things that I can do to generate income via these site types, I would love to hear it.Also, I want to make sure that my websites work with most browsers, especially Mozilla and Internet Explorer. Any and all feedback and suggestions is much appreciated. I need all of the help I can get.

[Saint_Michael 3]

For written article wordpress is perfect since it is a new/blogging type software and is very customizable with mods, themes and other good stuff. Although you don't really need to know php and MySQL since the Wordpress Installation files will tell you what to do to get it running , but if you want to add wordpress mods, remove stuff from the scripts, then you want to know a little bit about php and MYSQL. Since you will want to back up your website databases on a dialy basis, or maybe add in your own php scripts to make more interractive.

This site has a good index of tutorials along with traps own php tutorials as well, as you can learn a lot of information from there. Now for the articles, yes images would be very important, especially if your talking about celebrities, you would want a picture or two about them. As for adsene placement and general configuration you would want to go here, and for an idea on where to place them this site will help out as well.

RSS feeds from other sites are good, advertising other sites as well; including affiliating with them with link exchange; Xisto has a good SEO section that you want to check on the various topics about getting good SEO. Now the best part about wordpress is that you don't have to worry about browser problems, since the original software and it's many themes are cross-browser friendly and so you don't have to spend much time fixing the coding for it. So hopefully these questions help you out , and your best bet is to check out the wordpress forums or support for your more complex answers you may have about this software.