Devin Humbert

Here is a tutorial on creating custom taxonomies. It’s usually quicker to try Google before posting here, I found that link in a couple of seconds.

These sound like issues with the particular theme, which I’m not sure anyone here can help you with. You paid for the theme, if I was you I would contact Woo Themes and get help from them.

There is no technical issue. However, you do need to be aware of the image licensing and make sure you’re legally allowed to use it in such a manner. Ask the creator of the theme that you want to take the image from if you’re in doubt.

It looks like the PHP code you are embedding is outputting an iframe with scrolling disabled. If you want it to ouput an iframe, you need to search the code for the following code:
scrolling="no"
and replace it with:
scrolling="yes"

Reading this page, shouldn’t you be using the parameter “author” instead of “post_author”?

That is an issue with your web server. You need to increase the value for memory_limit in php.ini. Here is a tutorial. You may need to contact your hosting company.

I don’t have a definite answer, but I see you use Firebug. My first step would be to (on the Host OS, Windows) open Firebug and reload the page – see what URLs Firefox is trying to load for your CSS and images, that has helped me when I’ve had similar problems.

You can’t install WordPress like a Windows program. It needs to be run on a web server. Read the WordPress Installation Guide for lots of information on installing it.