Beehive Types and Setup Guide - Choosing and Placing Your First Hive
You have the gear. Now you need a home for your bees.
Chapter 6 of Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees by Kim Pezza (ISBN: 978-1-57826-453-7) covers hive types, setup, and how to actually get bees into the thing. There is more variety here than most people realize.