I am new to modding in general and decided to take on an idea I had, the problem is I don't actually know how to change an aoe trap (purple lightning floor trap) into something else that activates when you walk across it. Would anyone be willing to help me? My basic idea is to change the trap into a teleporter trap that teleports the player into a room of creatures if they walk over it. Thank you in advance for any help that is offered to the newbie hehe.

You'll need to attach a papyrus script for that. Take a look at the tutorials on the basic structure and syntax of Papyrus. When you have, you'll need an event (depending on the trap, OnActivate, OnTriggerEnter, something like that), you'll want a conditional check for the player, probably http://www.creationkit.com/Apply_-_ImageSpaceModifier, http://www.creationkit.com/MoveTo_-_ObjectReference to a marker, and then http://www.creationkit.com/Remove_-_ImageSpaceModifier.

It sounds a lot, but it's quite a simple script. But you'll have to make sure that you understand papyrus first.