Wordpress - plugins

[woodturningpat]

Hi just trying to get to grips with Wordpress and have quickly come across the need for additonal plugins etc So which ones out of the multitude available do i need? Your rexperiences/ecommedations sought for:

Multiple columns- want to be able to have multiple columns/pictures on some pages but not same on all
Contact form  to add an option of a web contact form as well as the tel no and email address
Photo Gallery management something rthat is a little  easier to manage than the  default Gallery maangement
ecommerce - not needed just at the mo but may as well find out what the current recommendation is

Pat

[seamus]

the plugins I would recommend would be

contact form 7
seo ultimate
xml sitemap

for the gallery, there are loads of different plugins, have a look at a few and see which ones you like the look of,
grand flash album gallery is an alright gallery plugin.
There is wp-commerce which is a free e-commerce plugin, again there are a few different e-commerce plugins for wordpress.