Here you will find a brief introduction to WordPress...

Chapter 1: What is WordPress?
Chapter 2: What’s the biggest problem using WordPress and how do I solve it? (Spam comments)
Chapter 3: Disable the visual editor
Chapter 4: How to add HTML Codes in WordPress
Chapter 5: More general tips on using WordPress

Chapter 1: What is WordPress?

WordPress is a web-application which is mainly designed to be used as a Blog. However even if you’re not into blogging you can use WordPress to easily build your website.

WordPress.com - The blog is hosted by WordPress and you don’t have to pay for the hosting. This is not recommended since due to security issues it’s almost not customizable at all (except domains) meaning it doesn’t let you post HTML codes which are needed for a lot of things.

WordPress.org - The blog is hosted on your own server/hosting hence your website or blog will be highly customizable since it lets you post any HTML code you want and it will be much easier to personalize it. That’s highly recommended!

There are a lot of reasons why I would recommend you to use WordPress. It’s really easy to use and it is highly search engines friendly. Since a lot of people use it, a lot of people build Plugins for it, design Themes/Templates for it and so on. Which increases it’s capabilities, performance and customizability by far. Of course there are a lot of more reasons on why you should be using it but you will find them out on your own.

Chapter 2: What’s the biggest problem using WordPress and how do I solve it? (Spam comments)

Read it in the free sample of my WPFAQ.org E-Book which you can download here for free.

Chapter 3: Disable the visual editor

I would really recommend you to check the “Disable visual editor when writing” in your Profile page since the visual editor causes quite some problems. The result looks much cleaner when working without it and you have to have it disabled for a lot of the tutorials of this book to work as described.

Chapter 4: How to add HTML Codes in WordPress

For some codes it is enough to paste them in the text area for them to work. However some codes may not work the way they should this way. For these codes I would recommend you to use a plugin named Raw HTML (click to know where to find it and how to use it).

Chapter 5: More general tips on using WordPress

I would recommend you to have an extra WordPress blog for testing purposes installed on your server. This way you can try out the stuff without affecting your website’s visitors experience and just move it to your main WordPress installation when everything works as it is supposed to.

Also read:
How to install WordPress
How to use WordPress
Plugins
Widgets
Themes