I recently changed www.revizzle.com over to wordpress instead of drupal because I think it will be easier while I'm learning web design. My site has multiple categories and I want to setup it up like this: Tabs across the top for categories Home - News - Reviews - Mods - Guides - Learn Each tab should have only posts on that topic, and the Home page should have snippets from anything posted. Right now I'm using a link editor to make each tab link to the CATEGORY of the posts but I'm wondering if there's a better way to do this and to get rid of the .../category/... in the links? I would also like to have a left sidebar that shows you where you're at and allows you to fine tune your view within the topic to specific categories, most commented, highest ranked, etc. like on this site http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Components,1/ Is this too much to ask from wordpress?
This isn't too much to ask from WordPress. However, it will take some coding. You'll need to create a page template for each unique page and use something like wp_query to call the posts from a specific category. Or, alternately, you could set up a conditional tag in your page.php file that says if the page is your reviews page, pull up the posts from that category, or if it's another category, pull up those posts, and so on. Again, this would use the wp_query function. This is what I specialize in, so if none of that makes sense, please consider hiring me.