I second the recommendation of liveaquaria.com
There is tons of information about fish and plants there. They also have some great plant packages if you are looking for plants and willing to spend $100 or so. A basic tropical fish book ($20 at Petsmart or the like) and/or liveaquaria.com and a myriad of other web sites can five you the information you need to easily figure out which fish can go together. I just started my tank recently. You can see what I've put together so far in my signature.
There is tons of information about fish and plants there. They also have some great plant packages if you are looking for plants and willing to spend $100 or so. A basic tropical fish book ($20 at Petsmart or the like) and/or liveaquaria.com and a myriad of other web sites can five you the information you need to easily figure out which fish can go together. I just started my tank recently. You can see what I've put together so far in my signature.