[Typo3] Typo3 Capabilities

[Andriy Mishchenko]

Hello everyone,

I would like to develop an organized and easily-updatable (by admin,
but possibly also by public users) information site. The main
necessity is being able to classify, display, and search for "news"
items by mulitple categories and sub-categories (fields) such as
geographical location etc.

The number of indentifying fields attached to each "article" would
ideally be around 15 and some would be input (e.g. contact name,
e-mail) whereas others would be selection (e.g. location,
category/subcategory).

Can this be done in Typo3 without in-depth programming or database
knowledge? I can do some basic work with PHP and MySQL, but not much
more than that.