Verdi talks about how he learned to get into using Wordpress as a video creator:

I don't know if this helps anything at all but here my experience. I

started blogging with blogger just over 5 years ago (wow I found blog

posts with video from Mar 2003). Previously I had taught myself web

design in the late 90s using programs like Dreamweaver to create crazy

nested tables. Blogger's template tags and css were totally confusing

to me. Luckily I was able to use dreamweaver to edit (mangle?) my

blogger template and make it look the way I wanted. Then in 2005 when

I switched to Wordpress I was, like you, completely lost for about a

week. I learned that messing with the php stuff made my blog break so

I stopped doing that and stuck to selecting a theme that I liked and

switching out images with new ones given the same name. I also saw

that there were a bunch of colors and fonts listed in the styles.css

file and I could change those without causing too much trouble. Little

by little with trial and error I started to understand how things

worked - html to build the structure, css to control the layout, php

to talk to the database. That alone got my pretty far but the one

thing that really made a difference for me (besides lots and lots of

time sticking with it) was reading Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML -

http://tinyurl.com/3a6n6v

After a few days working though that book I could suddenly "see"

things in HTML and CSS - they didn't look like just a bunch of code.

That's when using a text editor to create designs became preferred and

easier to use than the things that try to hide it all from you.

So I guess I'm saying that I feel your pain Heath. Don't get

discouraged because it's hard after just a few days. It took me a few

years to feel like I had some sort of clue. Now, about Wordpress being

more difficult to use that Blogger... Yes it is. Can it be as easy as

Blogger? Probably not without giving up some of the flexibility that

it designed for. In the big scheme of things is Wordpress fairly easy

for what it provides? Heck yeah! Themes, plugins and widgets are easy

and powerful ways to customize it and fairly easy to use once you get

the hang of it.