TechZone said:
Blaknite, in regards to WordPress, am I missing something here but isn't wordpress simply a blogging platform? I would still have to fill the site w/relevant ads or some sort of adwords system, correct?
Wordpress is a CMS (content management system) It originally started out as a blogging platform but its really more than that. You install the wordpress program onto your server and direct your domain name to the directory where wordpress is installed. From there, you add templates simply by transferring them into a folder under the wordpress install. You can change the entire look and feel of your site simply by changing the template in your control panel. You don't really need to get into php unless you actually want to modify or make your own template.
Put simply, wordpress separates the data from the content. You can create a new page for your site or a new post if you make the site into a blog simply by typing it in just like you do for this forum. The information about your pages or posts goes into the database. When someone visits your site, the wordpress program generates all the html code and pulls out the content from the database to create webpages on the fly for your visitor. Any time you want to add something, make changes, or put up a new page, you just write or edit the content. Wordpress will automatically update all your links between pages and make your new page so it fits the same theme.
As for ads you can either download a plugin and add it to your site or you can dig in a bit and paste adsense code into your theme. Take a look at
AnimeVideos.net to see how I have handled the ads there. My theme is a heavily edited free wordpress theme.
I have created three different types of "page" templates. I just copied the page template two times with different names. One is for the home page. A second is for the index style pages. (including the pages that have amazon store pages embedded) and a third is for content pages. Then I pasted the ad code into different places depending on where I wanted it to appear for each page style. Pages that have amazon astore don't show google ads. I wouldn't want the competing ads on the same page. Index pages also do not show google ads. (its against adsense tos to show google ads on pages without content) Content pages have adsense ads. The homepage gets different adsense code than the content pages. A bigger adsense ad block because its where most people bounce from my site. If they land there by mistake I give them somewhere to go...
I don't think you'll have much trouble getting how to put ads onto the site if you take the time to figure out how to build the site. The whole point to my suggesting wordpress (or joomla, ect) is that it really allows you to focus on creating content instead of getting lost creating html. Search engines are not at all interested in your html. They will send you traffic based on the quality of your content.
and it update some of mines WP 
