So to start, I'm no crafter and I tent to just buy my gear but I was wondering if I could disenchant items and use their ability on different gear like in Skyrim. I may just be doing it wrong but I'm not sure. Please help!
There's no disenchanting like there was in Skyrim in terms of DEing a piece of gear and just automagically learning the enchant effect.
You can research an item containing a trait you like with the appropriate crafting skill to learn its enhanced trait, which is going to be stuff like increased weapon speed, increased crit%, increased armor, etc. Once you have it researched for a specific piece of gear, you are then able to craft that piece of gear and add that enhancement effect using specific gems.
Enchants themselves are added to weapons, armor, jewelry using glyphs. They'll generally be effects like resists, added frost/fire damage, etc. Glyphs are made from combining the rune stones you find scattered around the world.