Help with Wordpress

I'm working on my blog website, but I need a CMS to keep it updated! I have decided to go with wordpress, but I have no idea how to install it, or how to customize it.

If you know where I could find some good tutorials (or if someone is willing to help me), could you please reply here!

Thanks,
Pádraig

Quick start guide

If you need help with a particular part, I can help you.

For customisation:
Plugin Management help

That second link looks more like something I need! I want it too look exactly they I want so I need help with the CSS mostly. Thanks for the links!

You've probably found these already, but just in case someone comes across the topic in the future, here's some theme information links:

Using Wordpress Themes
Stepping Into Template Tags
Stepping Into Templates
Wordpress CSS info
Theme Development
Wordpress CSS guides
Designing Your Wordpress Site
Wordpress Support forums

Excellent. That should keep me going a while!

Isn't wordpress a bit much for your needs? Have you looked at textpattern. I think its a bit simpler but its good for simple stuff. Or, shock horror(!), build one. A simple CMS like this would take no time and would be good practice.

Wordpress is brilliant though. I prefer to build my layout and just insert the codey bit rather than doing the whole separate segments of a page thing. After I have it all going, I can change common elements back to simple includes but that's just me.

Pete.

I had a look at textpattern, but it really confused me! I think I have started to get the hang of wordpress now.

Someday I'll build my own CMS, but that day is far away!

Wordpress is great! Good luck on customizing it, I am sure you will get the hang of it quick!