The short answer is yes.
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I want my site to be both a typical website with links, fixed pages, photos, etc, but also want a blog or forum included
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Easy...with he right HOST. eg:
www.yoursite.com as the site and then you install Worprperss in a directory...
www.yoursite.com/blog or yo can do it the way you suggest with a subdomain. The difference is the subdomain is a DIFFERENT domain and viewed as a different site and unless you do a lot of linking between them the engines will treat them as different sites.
You need to look at what you get from the host for the package you select.
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Can I use both Wordpress or other blog software and a web design software too with my host, or can you only use one software program?
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It depends on what the HOST offers for the package you buy. lot of hosts offer Wordpress as a one click install via cPanel otherwise you have to DL the blog software and install it on the host. Yes you can use whatever design software you want and have WP installed in the "blog" directory. In fact you can make another directory for another blog...don't know why anyone would do that but it's just to illustrate the point.
The advantage of putting the blog in a directory is that you get the all the benefits blogs offer for SEO and rankings in search engines for your site. It's a big help if the site is new
--Mike